Music: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newMusic.xml New Music Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu Powerful Voices: The Musical and Social World of Collegiate A Cappella | Joshua S. Duchan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=911758 The first scholarly account of the music and culture of collegiate a cappella The American Stravinsky: The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938 | Gayle Murchison http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=105530 The first study to show Copland's style development from his early works through his first widely accessible ballet The Lion's Ear: Pope Leo X, the Renaissance Papacy, and Music | by Anthony M. Cummings http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2662733 The first book on Pope Leo X's musical patronage in Renaissance Italy Chamber Music: An Essential History | by Mark A. Radice http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3702496 A thorough overview and history of chamber music Physical Expression and the Performing Artist: Moving Beyond the Plateau | by Jerald Schwiebert with Candace Platt http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=338842 Fundamentals of movement for actors, conductors, musicians, yogis . . . and everyone else Bytes and Backbeats: Repurposing Music in the Digital Age | by Steve Savage http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3432847 An examination of how musical activity has been transformed by contemporary production practices Say Word!: Voices from Hip Hop Theater | An Anthology Edited and with an Introduction by Daniel Banks http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=322638 Compelling plays by leading Hip Hop artists writing in the language of today Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s | by Theo Cateforis http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=152565 The definitive musical and cultural history of new wave music Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances | edited by Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=317074 Collected essays exploring the origins and evolution of music and dance in Afro-Atlantic culture Soul Music: Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown | by Joel Rudinow http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=173611 A meditative exploration of the essence of soul in popular music I Don't Sound Like Nobody: Remaking Music in 1950s America | by Albin J. Zak III http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=295986 A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music | by Mark Spicer and John Covach, editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=105283 Brings together a diverse collection of voices to explore a broad spectrum of popular music Blues in Black and White: The Landmark Ann Arbor Blues Festivals | by As photographed by Stanley Livingston with Text and a History of the Ann Arbor Blues Festival by Michael Erlewine, Foreword by Jim O'Neal, cofounder, Living Blues Magazine http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=876689 Never-before-seen photographs---with text accompaniment---of the performers onstage and backstage at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League | by Lily E. Hirsch http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=353335 Examines the complicated history of a Jewish cultural organization supported by Nazi Germany. The Music of Django Reinhardt | by Benjamin Givan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=119336 An in-depth analysis of the music and life of a gypsy music legend. The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness | by Terry Rowden http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=232221 How America has constructed the figure of the visually impaired black performer over the last 150 years. Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music | by Pamela Fox http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=277898 Hillbilly, honky-tonk, Nashville glitz, or alt.country: what makes music authentically country? Highbrow/Lowdown : Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class | by David Savran http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=338819 The culture clash that permanently changed American theater. Ellington Uptown : Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz | by John Howland http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=211239 Explores a little-discussed yet truly hybrid American musical tradition lost between the canons of authentic jazz and classical music. New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History | by Bruce Boyd Raeburn http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=176136 A fascinating and insightful study of the development of New Orleans jazz and its effect on jazz history. Old Roots, New Routes: The Cultural Politics of Alt.Country Music | edited by Pamela Fox and Barbara Ching http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=344030 An in-depth look at the influences, meaning, and identity of this contemporary music form. Hazel Scott The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC | by Karen Chilton http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=197245 The first biography of an important but overlooked African American pianist, singer, actor, and civil-rights advocate. Delightfulee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan | by Jeffery S. McMillan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=132323 The story of one of the most individual jazz stylists of his time. Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco | by Nadya Zimmerman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=192464 A bold reconsideration of the meaning of 1960s San Francisco counterculture. Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition | by Lorenzo Thomas | Edited and with an Introduction by Aldon Lynn Nielsen http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=91773 Reflections on the relationships between black American intellectuals and African American musical traditions from blues to hip hop. Haunted Heart: A Biography of Susannah McCorkle | by Linda Dahl http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=190229 NEW IN PAPER! The secret life and tragic death of a great American songbird.