Andrew Bowie 
Music, Philosophy, and Modernity [PDF ebook] 

The musical tradition of Ma”luf is believed to have come to North Africa with Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping the Christian reconquista of Spain between the tenth and seventeenth centuries. Alth …

This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology …

Eroticism in Early Modern Music contributes to a small but significant literature on music, sexuality, and sex in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Its chapters have grown from a long dialog …

Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia”s war of independence f …

The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse relationships between opera and First Nations and Indigenous cultures, ho …

“This book’s combination of interviews and history makes for an entertaining study of the heart of American roots music.” —Library Journal   In industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are know …

The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the ‘mature’ sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an …

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, …