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Melissa D Burrage
The Karl Muck Scandal

The demonization, internment, and deportation of celebrated Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Dr. Karl Muck, finally told, and placed in the context of World War I anti-German sentiment in the United St…

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Ruth Crawford Seeger,
The Music of American Folk Song

This is the first publication of an annotated monograph by the noted composer and folksong scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger. Originally written as a foreword for the 1940 book Our Singing Country, it was cons…

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Pierre-François Dub-Attenti, Christophe Zerbini
Daniel Roth, Organist of Saint-Sulpice

The authoritative biography of the world-renowned French organist, composer, and teacher Daniel Roth, told in his own words through lively, wide-ranging interviews.Pierre-François Dub-Attenti and Christop…

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Toyin Falola
Decolonization and the Future of African Studies

A study of African intellectual traditions as a resource to decolonize African Studies, this book argues that indigenous methods and knowledge are essential for studying Africa's diverse peoples and histo…

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S. Andrew Granade
The Musical Identities of Harry Partch

A vivid exploration of Harry Partch's visionary music, instruments, and identities, revealing how his singular sound-world challenges conventions, reshapes performance conventions, and continues to redefi…

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Gra¿yna Gross,
On the Run in Occupied Poland

Fleeing Soviet-occupied Vilnius in 1940, a girl and her parents arrive in German-occupied Poland. This child's-eye account brings wartime and refugee experiences vividly to life.On the Run in Occupied Pol…

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Jennifer Lofkrantz
Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa

Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads.In this pioneering study---the first to cover ransoming, or the re…

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Jon Ceander Mitchell
Holst and the Winds

A detailed exploration of the works for winds by Gustav Holst, the renowned composer of The Planets, aided by musical analysis and rich historical documentation.Gustav Holst (1874--1934) was an English co…

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John R Near,
Autobiographical Recollections of Charles-Marie Widor

The last of the Romantics, Widor narrated his recollections in 1936, bringing to life his diverse experiences from the time of Louis Philippe to the cusp of World War II.Widor's Toccata is the most famous…

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Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
Ghosts of Boko Haram

An unprecedented insider history of Boko Haram told through survivors' voices, revealing how ordinary Nigerians endured, resisted, and rebuilt their lives amid one of Africa's deadliest insurgencies.What …

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Benjamin Perl, Ilan Gronich
Mozart's Sonatas for Piano and Violin

A detailed and clearly written presentation of Mozart's sixteen piano and violin sonatas, forming a guide to their history, analysis, and performance, intended both for musicians and for music lovers.Amon…

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Matthew Frerking Reese
European Composers on the American Tour, 1900-1914

Explores American concert life and cultural history around 1900 through the lens of four visiting European composers."America may not be the promised land of music, but it is the promised land of mus…

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Mark Taubman
Medicine of the Highest Order

Chronicling the last 25 years of URMC's one-hundred-year history, this book updates previous histories in celebration of the organization's centennial by detailing developments at both strategic and depar…

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Dealing with Drugs

Explores how the concepts 'risk' and 'benefit' can operate as analytic tools across the medicine/drug divide, allowing new narratives, clearer understanding, and bridging the gap between licit and illicit…

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Eighteenth-Century Opera and Ballet

Twelve original essays that explore the rich interplay of opera, ballet, and culture in eighteenth-century Europe and beyond and offer new insights into such important figures as Mozart and the castrato F…

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Harmony and Rhythm of the Universe

An interdisciplinary journey through history, science, and art - exploring how harmony and rhythm have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and ourselves.What do a medieval board game, a mystic dancer, …

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Music in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia

A long-needed reassessment of the musical culture of fifteenth-century Bohemia, liberating it from nineteenth- and twentieth-century nationalist agendas and reassessing its position in European music hist…

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Resilience and the Humanities

Explores the concept of 'resilience' by proposing that it is a contested idea, susceptible to criticism, and not a predetermined notion whose consequences are fixed."Resilience" is all around us…

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Resilience and the Humanities

Explores the concept of 'resilience' by proposing that it is a contested idea, susceptible to criticism, and not a predetermined notion whose consequences are fixed."Resilience" is all around us…

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