Music

Recent recent books on music.

Updated July 23, 2025
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Stomp off, Let's Go : The Early Years of Louis Armstrong
Riccardi, Ricky.
Ebook
Dreaming in Ensemble : How Black Artists Transformed American Opera
Caplan, Lucy
Ebook
A revelatory new account of Black innovation in American opera, showing how composers, performers, and critics redefined the genre both aesthetically and politically in the early twentieth century. The inauguration of a "golden age" in Black opera is often dated to 1955, when...
Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters : Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
Asare, Masi
Ebook
In Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a vanguard of black women singers including Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters,...
Fantasies of Nina Simone
Stein, Jordan Alexander.
Ebook
Since her death in 2003, Nina Simone has been the subject of an astonishing number of rereleased, remastered, and remixed albums and compilations as well as biographies, films, viral memes, samples, and soundtracks. In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein uses an archive of Simone...
To have eyes. -
Holloway, Geoffrey
Paper Book
Contemporary Opera in Flux
Yayoi U. Everett
Ebook
In twelve essays, Contemporary Opera in Flux discusses a series of shifts that, taken together, have radically redefined the production and reception of opera. Focusing on productions involving late twentieth- and twenty-first century scores and libretti, the contributors draw on...
Music and Dance As Everyday South Asia
Sherinian, Zoe C.
Ebook
Métis Music: Stories of Recognition and Resurgence
MONIQUE GIROUX
Ebook
Monique Giroux traces the path of Métis music as it has moved within and through mainstream spaces while remaining embedded in relationships with place, community, and kin.
Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin
Rodin
Ebook
This book transforms our understanding of a fifteenth-century musical revolution. Renaissance composers developed fresh ways of handling musical flow in pursuit of intensifications, unexpected explosions, dramatic pauses, and sudden evaporations. A new esthetics of opposition, as this study calls it...

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