Musik

The eighties was a golden era for British pop: Radio One served as the soundtrack of the nation; the chart run-down on Sunday evenings was compulsory listening – ditto watching Top of the Popsand rea …

The English Bach Awakening concerns the introduction into England of J.S. Bach”s music and information about him. Hitherto this subject has been called ”the English Bach revival”, but that is a mi …

From the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, devotional music played a fundamental role in the Iberian world. Songs in the vernacular, usually referred to by the generic nam …

A revised and updated version of the artist”s collected lyrics An American original, Patti Smith is a multi-disciplined artist and performer. Her work is rooted in poetry, which infused her 1975 lan …

Ageing and Contemporary Female Musicians focuses on ageing within contemporary popular music. It argues that context, genres, memoirs, racial politics and place all contribute to how women are ”aged …

From Hitler”s notorious fondness for Wagner”s operas to classical music”s role in fuelling German chauvinism in the era of the world wars, many observers have pointed to a distinct relationship be …

HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism explores a fast-growing and transnational movement of street bands—particularly brass and percussion ensembles—and examines how this exciting phe …

Remixing European Jazz Culture examines a jazz culture that emerged in the 1990s in cosmopolitan cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Berlin, London, and Oslo – energised by the introduction of studio t …

Classics of seventeenth-century Italian sacred music set in modern notation, this second part of Vesper and Compline Music for Multiple Choirs features works by Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Legrenzi, …