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Recent Books on Music and Politics

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  • Kai West

How to Cite:

West, K., (2023) “Recent Books on Music and Politics”, Music & Politics 17(1): 5. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/mp.3855

The books listed in this column address music as it relates to political expression or focus on power relationships between individual musicians or musical communities and a governing authority. Readers are welcome to submit additional titles to for possible inclusion in the next issue.

References

Abfalter, Dagmar, and Rosa Reitsamer. Music as Labour: Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Adlington, Robert, and Esteban Buch, eds. Finding Democracy in Music. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Afolayan, Adeshina, and Toyin Falola. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Agamennone, Maurizio, Daniele Palma, and Giulia Sarno, eds. Sounds of the Pandemic: Accounts, Experiences, Perspectives in Times of COVID-19. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Alim, H. Samy, Jeff Chang, and Casey Wong, eds. Freedom Moves: Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.

Boon, Marcus. The Politics of Vibration: Music as Cosmopolitical Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.

Browne, Sarah Elisabeth. Staging Rebellion in the Musical, “Hair”: Marginalized Voices in Musical Theatre. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Bylander, Cindy. Engaging Cultural Ideologies: Classical Composers and Musical Life in Poland 1918–1956. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022.

Chakrabarti, Sukanya. In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Clague, Mark. O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022.

Cohen, Brigid. Musical Migration and Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Culyer, Antonio C. Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the US. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Dyndahl, Petter, Sidsel Karlsen, and Ruth Wright, eds. Musical Gentrification: Popular Music, Distinction and Social Mobility. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Enriquez, Falina. The Costs of the Gig Economy: Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2022.

Epstein, Louis K. The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2022.

Fifer, Julian, Angela Impey, Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Manfred Nowak, and George Ulrich, eds. The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Gall, Gregor. The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance, and Rebellion. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2022.

Geoffroy-Schwinden, Rebecca Dowd. From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Glatthorn, Austin. Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German Musical Stage at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Golding, Rosemary, ed. Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Golovlev, Alexander, ed. French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945–1955. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Hallman, Diana R., and César A. Leal, eds. America in the French Imaginary, 1789–1914: Music, Revolution and Race. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2022.

Harris, Amanda. Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930–1970. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Haukamp, Iris, Christin Hoene, and Martyn Smith, eds. Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Hayton, Jeff. Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Hoag, Melissa, ed. Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Holmes, Ramona. Resilient Voices: Estonian Choirs and Song Festivals in World War II Displaced Person Camps. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Kaufman, Will. American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War II: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Keym, Stefan, and Anna Fortunova. Eastern European Emigrants and the Internationalism of 20th-Century Music Concepts. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2022.

Kingston Mann, Larisa. Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Kirby, Sarah. Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2022.

Kölbl, Marko, and Fritz Trümpi, eds. Music and Democracy: Participatory Approaches. Vienna: mdwPress, 2021.

Kowalczyk, Beata M. Transnational Musicians: Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Lettman, Stacy J. The Slave Sublime: The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Lopes de Barros, Rodrigo. Distortion and Subversion: Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public Transportation in Brazil (1996–2011). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022.

Love, Joanna K., and Jessie Fillerup, eds. Sonic Identity at the Margins. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Luo, Jian Ming. Cultural Tourism and Cantonese Opera. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Mathew, Nicholas. The Haydn Economy: Music, Aesthetics, and Commerce in the Late Eighteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Mazierska, Ewa. Popular Polish Electronic Music, 1970–2020. New York: Routledge, 2022.

McGeary, Thomas. Opera and Politics in Queen Anne’s Britain, 1705–1714. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2022.

Morgan, Harry. Music, Politics and Society in Ancient Rome. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Ordoulidis, Nikos. Musical Nationalism, Despotism and Scholarly Interventions in Greek Popular Music. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Orzech, Rachel. Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the Parisian Press, 1933–1944. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022.

Ouyang, Lei X. Music as Mao’s Weapon: Remembering the Cultural Revolution. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2022.

Parks, Gregory S., and Frank Rudy Cooper, eds. Fight the Power: Law and Policy through Hip-Hop Songs. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Peddie, Ian, ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Piotrowska, Anna G. Music, City and the Roma under Communism. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Pilzer, Joshua D. Quietude: A Musical Anthropology of “Korea’s Hiroshima.” New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Rabaka, Reiland. Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Ramsey, Guthrie P. Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.

Richardson, Michael S. Medievalism and Nationalism in German Opera: “Euryanthe” to “Lohengrin.” New York: Routledge, 2022.

Riddell, Fraser. Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Rocke, Stephanie. The Politicized Concert Mass (1967–2007). New York: Routledge, 2022.

Rodríguez, Richard T. A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.

Schäfers, Marlene. Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Schweig, Meredith. Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Selvik, Randi Margrete, Svein Gladsø, and Annabella Skagen, eds. Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts, 1770–1860. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Shupe, Abigail. War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis of Collective Memory. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Siddiqi, Asif. One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Silver, Christopher. Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022.

Tsioulakis, Ioannis. Musicians in Crisis: Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry. New York: Routledge, 2022.

Werner, Ann. Feminism and Gender Politics in Mediated Popular Music. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Williams, Joseph. England’s Folk Revival and the Problem of Identity in Traditional Music. New York: Routledge, 2022.