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Under the Table and Screaming is a multi-volume series exploring the history and legacy of the local music scene in Charlottesville, VA. From literally underground shows in DIY basements to the racia …

Thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Gilroy have long championed sound as an affective register of Black subjectivity, particularly in the African Atlantic. Prior studies in this vein focus on Ang …

During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Presentations program. Performances of music in many styles—cl …

The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. Th …

Their melodies mesmerized you, their lyrics moved you – but it’s what you didn’t know about the artists that will SHOCK you. Finally – This book is a must-read for all lovers and fans of the greatest …

When did Russia become “modern?” Historians of Russia – including even many Russian historians – have long tried to identify Russia’s “modern” moment. While most scholars have looked to economic or i …

Since the magazine’s first issue in 1964, Teen Set’s role in popular music journalism has been overlooked and underappreciated. Teen fan magazines, often written by women and assumed to be read only …

Gliders Over Hollywood tells the exhilarating true story of a blue-collar kid nicknamed ‘Rap’ who grew up in thrall to rock’n’roll, then found himself right in the middle of many of his heroes’ lives …

How one extraordinary pianist, scholar, and editor prepared for publication important scores by Ives, Copland, and Ruggles, and reshaped the history of American musical modernism. For over sixty year …

Explores the political meanings that Italian opera – its composers, agents and institutions – had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain. The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) was pivotal for both …