Recent Books on Music and Politics
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The books listed in this column address music as it relates to political expression or focus to a significant degree on power relationships between individual musicians or musical communities and a governing authority. Readers are welcome to submit additional titles to musicandpolitics@umich.edu for possible inclusion in the next issue.
- Adlington, Robert, ed. New Music Theatre in Europe: Transformations between 1955–1975. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Armstrong, Andrew B. 24 Bars to Kill: Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan’s Social Margins. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019.
- Asthana, Sanjay. India’s State-Run Media: Broadcasting, Power, and Narrative. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Avila, Jacqueline. Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity During Mexico’s Época de Oro. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Bick, Sally. Unsettled Scores: Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2019.
- Buch, Esteban, Igor Contreras Zubillaga, and Manuel Deniz Silva, eds. Composing for the State: Music in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Burn, David J., Grantley McDonald, Joseph Verheyden, and Peter De Mey, eds. Music and Theology in the European Reformations. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2019.
- Butler, Katherine. Music in Elizabethan Court Politics. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2019.
- Butler, Margaret R. Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma: Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2019.
- Cain, Michael Scott. Folk Music and the New Left in the Sixties. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2019.
- Camal, Jérôme. Creolized Aurality: Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Cardoso, Leonardo. Sound-Politics in São Paulo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Cohen, Aaron. Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Collins, Sarah. Lateness and Modernism: Untimely Ideas about Music, Literature and Politics in Interwar Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Collins, Sarah, ed. Music and Victorian Liberalism: Composing the Liberal Subject. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Coulter, Colin, ed. Working for the Clampdown: The Clash, the Dawn of Neoliberalism and the Political Promise of Punk. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.
- Custodis, Michael, and Arnulf Mattes, eds. The Nordic Ingredient: European Nationalisms and Norwegian Music since 1905. Münster: Waxmann, 2019.
- Dave, Nomi. The Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Dolp, Laura, ed. Arvo Pärt’s White Light: Media, Culture, Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Elphick, Daniel. Music Behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and his Polish Contemporaries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Fanning, David, and Erik Levi, eds. The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938–1945: Propaganda, Myth and Reality. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Fast, Susan, and Craig Jennex, eds. Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Goldberg, K. Meira, Walter Aaron Clark, and Antoni Pizà, eds. Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song and Dance: Spaniards, Natives, Africans, Roma. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
- Goldschmitt, K. E. Bossa Mundo: Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Guilbault, Jocelyne, and Timothy Rommen, eds. Sounds of Vacation: Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
- Hagen, Trevor. Living in The Merry Ghetto: The Music and Politics of the Czech Underground. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Ho, Wai-Chung. Popular Music, Cultural Politics and Music Education in China. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Hödl, Klaus. Entangled Entertainers: Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. Translated by Corey Twitchell. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019.
- Horne, Gerald. Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2019.
- James, Robin. The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
- Kalman, Julie, Ben Wellings, and Keshia Jacotine, eds. Eurovisions: Identity and the International Politics of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1956. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- Katz, Mark. Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Kim, Gooyong, From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls: Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea’s Popular Music Industry. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.
- Klenke, Kerstin. The Sound State of Uzbekistan: Popular Music and Politics in the Karimov Era. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Kraaz, Sarah Mahler, ed. Music and War in the United States. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- La Chapelle, Peter. I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Lasser, Michael. City Songs and American Life, 1900–1950. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2019.
- Lovesey, Oliver, ed. Popular Music and the Postcolonial. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Mazierska, Ewa, Les Gillon, and Tony Rigg, eds. Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age: Politics, Economy, Culture and Technology. London, Bloomsburg Academic, 2019.
- Mazierska, Ewa, and Zsolt Győri, eds. Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context: Beyond the Borders. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- Mboya, T. Michael. Popular Music, Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s: Okatch Biggy Live at “The Junction.” Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
- Onyebadi, Uche T., ed. Music and Messaging in the African Political Arena. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019.
- Pollock, Emily Richmond. Opera After the Zero Hour: The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal in Postwar West Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Ramos-Kittrell, Jesús A., ed. Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.
- Rauhut, Michael. One Sound, Two Worlds: The Blues in a Divided Germany, 1945–1990. Translated by Jessica Ring. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019.
- Ritchey, Marianna. Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Saito, Yoshiomi. The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and “American Music.” New York: Routledge, 2019.
- Seinen, Nathan. Prokofiev’s Soviet Operas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Sullivan, James. Which Side Are You On?: 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Tausig, Benjamin. Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Vito, Christopher. The Values of Independent Hip-Hop in the Post-Golden Era: Hip-Hop’s Rebels. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- Williams, Gavin, ed. Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Wilson, Alexandra. Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Wolf, Stacy. Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Woodfield, Ian. Cabals and Satires: Mozart’s Comic Operas in Vienna. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.