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
Adkins, Monty, and Rachel E. Mann, eds. Gerhard, Roberto: Re-Appraising a Musical Visionary in Exile. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Adlington, Robert. Musical Models of Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Agawu, Kofi. On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Alim, H. Samy, Jeff Chang, and Casey Wong, eds. Freedom Moves: Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.
Allen, Aaron S., and Jeff Tod Titon, eds. Sounds, Ecologies, Musics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Alonso-Minutti, Ana R. Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Baker, Sarah, Zelmarie Cantillon, and Raphaël Nowak. Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Justice and the Deindustrialising City. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Borshuk, Michael, ed. Jazz and American Culture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Bower, Bruno, Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg, and Sonja Starkmeth, eds. Genre Beyond Borders: Reassessing Operetta. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Bull, Anna, Christin Scharff, and Laudan Nooshin, eds. Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession: New Ideas for Tackling Inequalities and Exclusions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Callahan, Erin C., and Court Carney The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Campbell , Mark V., and Murray Forman, eds. Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production. Bristol: Intellect, 2023.
Celenza, Anna Harwell, ed. Music and Human Flourishing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Cimardi, Linda. Performing Arts and Gender in Postcolonial Western Uganda. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2023.
Çizmeci, Esra. Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism: Making Sacred Space with Mevlevi and Rifai Zikir in Turkey. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Clausius, Katharina. Opera and the Politics of Tragedy: A Mozartean Museum. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2023.
Contreras Zubillaga, Igor, and Eva Moreda Rodriguez, eds. Spain in Our Ears: International Musical Responses in Support of the Republic during the Spanish Civil War. New York: Routledge, 2023.
de Ferranti, Hugh, Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes, and Masaya Shishikura, eds. Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Co-existence, Japan. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2023.
Donovan, Ryan. Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Eyre, Makana. Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps. New York: W. W. Norton, 2023.
Forman, Murray, Mark Anthony Neal, and Regina N. Bradley, eds. That’s the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Gibbs, Levi S., ed. Social Voices: The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Gibson, Sarah Jane. Building Community Choirs in the Twenty-First Century: Re-imagining Identity through Singing in Northern Ireland. Bristol: Intellect, 2023.
Gordon, Robert, and Olaf Jubin, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Gratzer, Wolfgang, Nils Grosch, Ulrike Präger, and Susanne Scheiblhofer, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Griffith, Lauren Miller. Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Harbert, Benjamin J. Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana’s Angola Prison. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Helbig, Adriana N. ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Hui, Yu, and Jonathan P. J. Stock, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Jenkins, Christopher. Assimilation v. Integration in Music Education: Leading Change toward Greater Equity. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Jordan, Daniel David. Coros y Danzas: Folk Music and Spanish Nationalism in the Early Franco Regime (1939–1953). New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Kapuria, Radha. Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800–1947. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Kolb-Neuhaus, Roberto. Silvestre Revueltas: Sounds of a Political Passion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Leal, Jonathan. Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Lee, Gavin S. K., ed. Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
MacGregor, Emily. Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination: Politics, Identity, and the Sound of 1933. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Machin-Autenrieth, Matthew, Salwa el-Shawan Castelo-Branco, and Samuel Llano, eds. Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain: Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Malnig, Julie. Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock ‘n’ Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
McGraw, Andrew. Music as Ethics: Stories from Virginia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Minks, Amanda. Indigenous Audibilities: Music, Heritage, and Collections in the Americas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Moreno, Jairo. Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Morrison, Matthew D. Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024.
Olwage, Grant. Paul Robeson’s Voices. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Pardue, Derek, Ailbhe Kenny, and Katie Young, eds. Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night. Bristol: Intellect, 2023.
Phillips, Barry. In Search of Tito’s Punks: On the Road in A Country That No Longer Exists. Bristol: Intellect, 2023.
Piperno, Franco, Simone Caputo, and Emanuele Senici, eds. Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550–1860. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Quevedo, Marysol. Cuban Music Counterpoints: Vanguardia Musical in Global Networks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Quinn, Iain. Rudolph Ganz, Patriotism, and Standardization of The Star-Spangled Banner, 1907–1958. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Rabak, Reiland. Black Women’s Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Romero, Brenda M., Susan M. Asai, David A. McDonald, Andrew G. Snyder, and Katelyn E. Best, eds. At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023.
Rusak, Helen. Women, Music, and Leadership. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Sarath, Edward. Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America’s Black Music Roots. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Schäfers, Marlene. Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Stokes, Martin. Music and Citizenship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Sykes, Jim, and Julia Suzanne Byl, eds. Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.
Tochka, Nicholas. Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Vassallo, Mario Thomas, and Andrew P. Debattista, eds. The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Vernallis, Carol. The Media Swirl: Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Vesey, Alyxandra. Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Waltham-Smith, Naomi. Mapping (Post)colonial Paris by Ear. of Elements in Music and the City. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Weber, Cameron M., Ying Zhen, and J. J. Arias. Artists and Markets in Music: The Political Economy of Music During the Covid Era and Beyond. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Weheliye, Alexander Ghedi. Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
Wenz, Clara. Music from Aleppo during the Syrian War: Displacement and Memory in Hello Psychaleppo’s Electro-Tarab. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Wilbourne, Emily. Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Williams, Richard David. The Scattered Court: Hindustani Music in Colonial Bengal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.