Aidan Levy 
Dirty Blvd. [PDF ebook] 
The Life and Music of Lou Reed

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 …

Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law-recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in th …

Sir Paul Mc Cartney first picked up a guitar as a bereaved teenager in 1956. In the fifty years since he”s become the most successful pop music composer in history, enjoying a virtual season ticket …