The books listed in this column address music as it relates to political expression or focus on power relationships between individual musicians or musical communities and a governing authority. Readers are welcome to submit additional titles to [email protected] for possible inclusion in the next issue.

  • Abraham, Daniel, Alicia Kopfstein-Penk, and Andrew H. Weaver, eds. Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC: Works, Politics, and Performances. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2020.
  • Adlington, Robert, and Esteban Buch, eds. Finding Democracy in Music. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Amoros, Luis Gimenez. Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Ampene, Kwasi. Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Arnold, R. J. Grétry’s Operas and the French Public: From the Old Regime to the Restoration. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Ballico, Christina, and Allan Watson, eds. Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
  • Bellaviti, Sean. Música Típica: Cumbia and the Rise of Musical Nationalism in Panama. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Bennett, Andy, and Paula Guerra. DIY Cultures and Underground Music Scenes. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Bennett, Andy, Jodie Taylor, and Ian Woodward. The Festivalization of Culture. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Bennett, Tony, David Carter, Modesto Gayo, Michelle Kelly, and Greg Noble, eds. Fields, Capitals, Habitus: Australian Culture, Inequalities, and Social Divisions. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Belkind, Nili. Music in Conflict: Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Aesthetic Production. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Berliner, Paul F. The Art of Mbira: Musical Inheritance and Legacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
  • Bohlman, Andrea F. Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Brown, Kelli D. The Sound of Hope: Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation During the Holocaust and World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2020.
  • Brown, Rae Linda. The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
  • Collins, Marcus. The Beatles and Sixties Britain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  • Cordier, Adeline. Post-War French Popular Music: Cultural Identity and the Brel-Brassens-Ferré Myth. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • DeLorenzo, Lisa C. Giving Voice to Democracy in Music Education: Diversity and Social Justice in the Classroom. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • De Lucca, Valeria. The Politics of Princely Entertainment: Music and Spectacle in the Lives of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini Colonna. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Díaz Rodríguez, José Miguel. The Appeal of the Philippines: Spain, Cultural Representation and Politics. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Dirksen, Rebecca. After the Dance, the Drums are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Dovchin, Sender. Language, Media and Globalization in the Periphery: The Linguascapes of Popular Music in Mongolia. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Dyndahl, Petter, Sidsel Karlsen, and Ruth Wright, eds. Musical Gentrification: Popular Music, Distinction and Social Mobility. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Everist, Mark. Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Fauser, Annegret. The Politics of Musical Identity: Selected Essays. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Fellezs, Kevin. Listen but Don’t Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the TransPacific. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
  • Fernandes, Sujatha. The Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
  • Fulk, Kirkland A., ed. Sounds German: Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020.
  • Garde, Ulrike, and John R. Severn. Theatre and Internationalization: Perspectives from Australia, Germany, and Beyond. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Golden, Rachel May. Mapping Medieval Identities in Occitanian Crusade Song. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Hamer, Laura. Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–1939. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Hansen, Kai Arne, Eirik Askerøi, and Freya Jarman. Popular Musicology and Identity: Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Hemmasi, Farzaneh. Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California’s Iranian Pop Music. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
  • Herrera, Eduardo. Elite Art Worlds: Philanthropy, Latin Americanism, and Avant-Garde Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Homan, Shane, Martin Cloonan, and Jen Cattermole. Popular Music Industries and the State: Policy Notes. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Horten, Gerd. Don’t Need No Thought Control: Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020.
  • Howard, Keith. Songs for “Great Leaders”: Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Hyde, Jenni. Singing the News: Ballads in Mid-Tudor England. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Ingraham, Mary, Joseph So, and Roy Moodley, eds. Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Irvine, Thomas. Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770–1839. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
  • Issiyeva, Adalyat. Representing Russia’s Orient: From Ethnography to Art Song. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Jacobshagen, Arnold, ed. Rossini after Rossini: Musical and Social Legacy. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2020.
  • Jankowsky, Richard C. Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
  • Jansen, Wolfgang, ed. Popular Music Theatre under Socialism: Operettas and Musicals in the Eastern European States. Münster: Waxmann, 2020.
  • Janz, Tobias, and Chien-Chang Yang, eds. Decentering Musical Modernity: Perspectives on East Asian and European Music History. Bielefeld: transcript publishing, 2020.
  • Jerold, Beverly. Disinformation in Mass Media: Gluck, Piccinni, and the Journal de Paris. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • John, Eckhard, and David Robb. Songs for a Revolution: The 1848 Protest Song Tradition in Germany. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2020.
  • Johnson, Stephen. The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
  • Jones, Alisha Lola. Flaming? The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Kaldewey, Helma. A People’s Music: Jazz in East Germany, 1945–1990. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  • Kapadocha, Christina, ed. Somatic Voices in Performance Research and Beyond. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Kasinitz, Philip, and Marco Martiniello. Music, Immigration and the City: A Transatlantic Dialogue. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Kelly, Elaine, Markus Mantere, and Derek Scott, eds. Confronting the National in the Musical Past. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Kügle, Karl, ed. Sounding the Past: Music as History and Memory. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2020.
  • Kusz, Veronika. A Wayfaring Stranger: Ernst von Dohnányi’s American Years, 1949–1960. Translated by Brian McLean. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020.
  • Lee, Gavin, ed. Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music: Theory and Politics of Ambiguity. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Leppert, Richard. Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature: Opera, Orchestra, Phonograph, Film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020.
  • Levine, Gabriel. Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.
  • Livermon, Xavier. Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
  • Lohman, Laura. Hail Columbia! American Music and Politics in the Early Nation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Lordi, Emily J. The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
  • Ndaliko, Chérie Rivers, and Samuel Anderson. The Art of Emergency: Aesthetics and Aid in African Crises. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Niranjana, Tejaswini. Music, Modernity, and Publicness in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Norton, Barley, and Naomi Matsumoto, eds. Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Ma, Haili. Urban Politics and Cultural Capital: The Case of Chinese Opera. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Magaña, Maurice Rafael. Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020.
  • Mann, Joseph Arthur. Printed Musical Propaganda in Early Modern England. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2020.
  • Marin, Roberta Montemorra. The Politics of Verdi’s Cantica. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • McAllister, Rita, and Christina Guillaumier, eds. Rethinking Prokofiev. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Mikkonen, Simo, and Pekka Suutari, eds. Music, Art and Diplomacy: East-West Cultural Interactions and the Cold War. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Móricz, Klára. In Stravinsky’s Orbit: Responses to Modernism in Russian Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020.
  • Morucci, Valerio. Baronial Patronage of Music in Early Modern Rome. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Mullen, John, ed. Popular Song in the First World War: An International Perspective. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Patch, Justin. Discordant Democracy: Noise, Affect, Populism, and the Presidential Campaign. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Pearson, David. Rebel Music in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Peters, Mathijs. Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
  • Peres da Silva, Glaucia, and Konstantin Hondros, eds. Music Practices Across Borders: (E)Valuating Space, Diversity, and Exchange. Bielefeld: transcript publishing, 2020.
  • Pichler, Peter. Metal Music, Sonic Knowledge, and the Cultural Ear in Europe since 1970: A Historiographic Exploration. Stuttgart: Steiner Franz Verlag, 2020.
  • Pistrick, Eckehard. Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Pope, Lavar. Rap and Politics: A Case Study of Panther, Gangster, and Hyphy Discourses in Oakland, CA (1965–2010). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
  • Ramnarine, Tina K. Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Ray, Marcie. Coquettes, Wives, and Widows: Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2020.
  • Redmond, Shana L. Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
  • Rees, Lucy M. Mongolian Film Music: Tradition, Revolution and Propaganda. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Rios, Fernando. Panpipes & Ponchos: Musical Folklorization and the Rise of the Andean Conjunto Tradition in La Paz, Bolivia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Robinson, Roxy. Music Festivals and the Politics of Participation. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Rodmell, Paul J. French Music in Britain, 1830–1914. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Rodriguez, Eva Moreda. Music and Exile in Francoist Spain. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Roust, Colin. Georges Auric: A Life in Music and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Rowden, Clair. Opera and Parody in Paris, 1860–1900. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2020.
  • Rupprecht, Ina, ed. Persecution, Collaboration, Resistance: Music in the ‘Reichskommissariat Norwegen’ (1940–45). Münster: Waxmann, 2020.
  • Samson, Jim, and Nicoletta Demetriou, eds. Music in Cyprus. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Searcy, Anne. Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Selvik, Randi Margrete, Svein Gladsø, and Anne Margrete Fiskvik, eds. Performing Arts in Changing Societies: Opera, Dance, and Theatre in European and Nordic Countries Around 1800. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Senay, Banu. Musical Ethics and Islam: The Art of Playing the Ney. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
  • Skoutella, Avra Pieridou. Small Musical Worlds in the Mediterranean: Ethnicity, Globalization and Greek Cypriot Children’s Musical Identities. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Smith, Richard Langham, ed. Carmen Abroad: Bizet’s Opera on the Global Stage. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  • Smyth, Gerry. Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
  • Stokes, Martin. The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Survilla, Maria Paula. Of Mermaids and Rock Singers: Placing the Self and Constructing the Nation through Belarusan Contemporary Music. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Sweers, Britta, and Sarah M. Ross, eds. Cultural Mapping and Musical Diversity. London: Equinox Publishing, 2020.
  • Szatmary, David. Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870–2019). New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Taruskin, Richard. Cursed Questions: On Music and Its Social Practices. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020.
  • Taylor, Benedict, ed. Rethinking Mendelssohn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Thurmann-Jajes, Anne, and Regine Beyer, eds. Listen Up! Radio Art in the USA. Bielefeld: transcript publishing, 2020.
  • Tkaczyk, Viktoria, Mara Mills, and Alexandra Hui, eds. Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Tsioulakis, Ioannis. Musicians in Crisis: Working and Playing in the Greek Popular Music Industry. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Tunbridge, Laura. Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020.
  • Turner, Katherine L. This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Usoz de la Fuente, Maite. Urban Space, Identity and Postmodernity in 1980s Spain: Rethinking the Movida. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Ventsel, Aimar. Punks and Skins United: Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020.
  • Vest, Lisa Cooper. Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020.
  • White, Harry. The Musical Discourse of Servitude: Authority, Autonomy, and the Work-Concept in Fux, Bach and Handel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Williams, Justin A. Brithop: The Politics of UK Rap in the New Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Womack, Kenneth. The Beatles in Context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020.