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 musicandpolitics@umich.edu 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.