Format Friction

Gavin Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• The first book to consider the shellac disc as a global format. With the rise of the gramophone around 1900, the shellac disc traveled the world and e... Lees meer

The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961

Anna Maria Busse Berger

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• This innovative book reassesses the history of musicology, unearthing the field's twentieth-century German and global roots. In the process, Anna Mari... Lees meer

Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood

Adeline Mueller

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart the Wunderkind ... Lees meer

Creatures of the Air

J Q Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• An account of nineteenth-century music in Atlantic worlds told through the history of the art's elemental medium, the air. Often experienced as univer... Lees meer

Tuning the World

Fanny Gribenski

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for mu... Lees meer

Music in the Flesh

Bettina Varwig

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe. Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects--composers, p... Lees meer

Sounding Human

Deirdre Loughridge

• Paperback | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical... Lees meer

The Voice as Something More

• Paperback | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsoundin... Lees meer

Musical Migration and Imperial New York

Brigid Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• Through archival work and storytelling, Musical Migration and Imperial New York revises many inherited narratives about experimental music and art in ... Lees meer

The Composer Embalmed

Abigail Fine

• Paperback | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• The first granular study of nineteenth-century composer devotion--a network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rit... Lees meer

The Haydn Economy

Nicholas Mathew

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn's career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the human... Lees meer

An Unnatural Attitude

Benjamin Steege

• Hardcover | Engels | New Material Histories of Music
• An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic--a phenomenological style tha... Lees meer