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 relationships between individual musicians or musical communities and a governing authority. Most of the works listed were published within the previous half year. Readers are welcome to submit additional titles to [email protected] for possible inclusion in the next issue.
- Als Bürger leben, als Halbgott sprechen: Melodram, Deklamation und Sprechgesang im wilhelminischen Reich. By Matthias Nöther. (KlangZeiten: Musik, Politik und Gesellschaft, 4.) Cologne: Böhlau, 2008. [x, 328 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 978-3-412-20097-8. €42.90.]
- Braune Brüder im Geiste? Volk und Rasse bei Wagner und Hitler: Ein kritischer Schrift-Vergleich. By Alexander Schmidt. Marburg: Tectum, 2007. [110 p. ISBN 978-3-8288-9252-1. €24.90.]
- Déodat de Séverac: Musical Identity in Fin de Siècle France. By Robert F. Waters. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008. [xiv, 274 p. ISBN 978-0-7546-4105-6. $114.95.]
- Douce France?: Musik-Exil in Frankreich = Musiciens en exil en France, 1933-1945. By Michel Cullin and Primavera Driessen Gruber. Vienna: Böhlau, 2008. [508 p. ISBN 978-3-205-77773-1. €39.]
- Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit: Zur Rezeptionsgeschichte von Text und Melodie des Deutschlandliedes seit 1933. By Jürgen Zeichner. (PapyRossa Hochschulschriften, 76.) Cologne: Papyrossa, 2008. [247 p. ISBN 978-3-89438-399-2. €19.]
- Frederick the Great and His Musicians: The Viola da Gamba Music of the Berlin School. By Michael O’Loghlin. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008. [xviii, 253 p. ISBN 978-0-7546-5885-6. $99.95.]
- George F. Root, Civil War Songwriter: A Biography. By Polly Carder. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. [vii, 239 p. ISBN 978-0-7864-3374-2. $45.]
- Gli ultraterrestri: Musiche della rivoluzione globale. By Mario Gamba. (Virus.) Naples: Cronopio, 2008. [209 p. ISBN: 978-88-89446-37-9. €18.50.]
- Guerre e pace. (Musica & parole, 4.) Foggia: Bastogi, 2008. [120 p. ISBN 978-88-6273-076-1. €10.]
- Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC. By Karen Chilton. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. [xv, 277 p. ISBN 978-0-472-11567-9. $29.95.]
- Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam. By Mark LeVine. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2008. [296 p. ISBN 978-0-307-35339-9. $13.95.]
- Judenrollen: Darstellungsformen im europäischen Theater von der Restauration bis zur Zwischenkriegszeit. Edited by Hans-Peter Bayersdörfer and Jens Malte Fischer. (Conditio Judaica: Studien und Quellen zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, 70.) Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2008. [vii, 359 p. ISBN 978-3-484-65170-8. €96.]
- Leonard Bernstein: Amiercan Original: How a Modern Renaissance Man Transformed Music and the World during His New York Philharmonic Years, 1943–1976. By Burton Bernstein and Barbara B. Haws. New York: Collins, 2008. [xviii, 223 p. ISBN 978-0-06-153786-8. $29.95.]
- Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1895–1958. Edited by Hugh Cobbe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. [xx, 679 p. ISBN 978-0-19-925797-3. $190.00.]
- Memoria, Macht, Musik: Eine politische Ökonomie der Musik in vormodernen Gesellschaften. By Boris Voigt. (Musiksoziologie, 16.) Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2008. 456 p. ISBN 978-3-7618-1366-9. €39.95.]
- Music and the Making of Middle-Class Culture: A Comparative History of Nineteenth-Century Leipzig and Birmingham. By Antje Pieper. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. [xix, 214 p. ISBN 978-0-230-54513-7. $74.95.]
- Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation. By Thomas Turino. (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. [xviii, 258 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 978-0-226-81697-5, $55 (hbk.); 978-0-226-81698-2, $22 (pbk.).]
- Music Quickens Time. By Daniel Barenboim. London: Verso, 2008. [184 p. ISBN 978-1-84467-287-5. $24.95.]
- Musiktheater in Regensburg im Zeitalter des Immerwährenden Reichstages. By Christoph Meixner. (Musik und Theater, 3.) Sinzig: Studio Verlag, 2008. [xii, 594 p. ISBN 978-3-89564-114-5. €40.]
- Musik unter politischen Vorzeichen: Parteiherrschaft und Instrumentalmusik in der DDR seit dem Mauerbau: Werk- und Kontextanalysen. By Christiane Sporn. Saarbrücken: Pfau, 2007. [458 p. ISBN 978-3-89727-367-2. €35.]
- On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century. By C. Carr. Rev. ed. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press. [xxii, 367 p. ISBN 978-0-8195-6888-5. $27.95.]
- The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years. By Simon Morrison. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. [ix, 491 p. ISBN 978-0-19-518167-8. $29.95.]
- Popular Music of Vietnam: The Politics of Remembering, the Economics of Forgetting. By Dale A. Olsen. (Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology, 1.) New York: Routledge, 2008. [xviii, 286 p. ISBN 978-0-415-98886-5. $95.]
- Presidential Praise: Our Presidents and Their Hymns. By C. Edward Spann and Michael E. Williams, Sr. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2008. [xiii, 359 p. + 1 CD. ISBN 978-0-88146-117-6. $35.]
- The Reconstruction of Lisbon: Severa’s Legacy and the Fado’s Rewriting of Urban History. By Michael Colvin. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2008. [131 p. ISBN 978-0-8387-5708-6. $41.50.]
- Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire. By Bob W. White. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. [xxiii, 300 p. ISBN 978-0-8223-4091-1, $84.95 (hbk.); 978-0-8223-4112-3, $23.95 (pbk.).]
- Sergey Prokofiev and His World. Edited by Simon Morrison. (Bard Music Festival Series.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. [xii, 580 p. ISBN 978-0-691-13894-7, $65 (hbk.); 978-0-691-13895-4, $26.95 (pbk.).]
- A Shostakovich Companion. By Michael Mishra. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2008. [xx, 609 p. ISBN 978-0-313-30503-0. $170.]
- Story behind the Protest Song: A Reference Guide to the 50 Songs That Changed the 20th Century. By Hardeep Phull. [xiii, 284 p. ISBN 978-0-313-34141-0. $65.]
- “Unser Rebbe, unser Stalin”: Jiddische Lieder aus den St. Petersburger Sammlungen von Moishe Beregowski (1892–1961) und Sofia Magid (1892–1954). By Elivira Grözinger. (Jüdische Musik, 7.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008. [635 p. + 1 DVD. ISBN 978-3-447-05689-2. €68.]
- Verstummte Stimmen: Die Vertreibung der “Juden” aus der Oper 1933 bis 1945. By Hannes Heer, Jürgen Kesting, and Peter Schmidt. Berlin: Metropol, 2008. [126 p. ISBN 978-3-938690-98-7. €16.]
- Zwischen Bühne und Baracke: Lexikon der verfolgten Theater-, Film- und Musikkünstler 1933–1945. By Kay Weniger. Berlin: Metropol, 2008. [447 p. ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9. €28.]