The Ballad in American Popular Music: From Elvis to Beyoncé
Author: Metzer, David Publication details: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: While ballads have been a cornerstone of popular music for decades, this is the first book to explore the history and appeal of these treasured songs. David Metzer investigates how and why the styles of ballads have changed over a period of more […]
Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead by Brad Osborn
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Popular Music 36, no. 3 (2017): 446-48. Weblink: https://cambridge.org
And You, Dear Eagle, Have You Seen My Cows? Reflections of Moravian Song in North American Indigenous Spaces
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: In From Folklore to World Music: Reflections, edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková, 119-31. Náměšt nad Oslavou: Municipal Cultural Center, 2017. Weblink: folkoveprazdniny.cz Description: According to mythologist Martin Shaw, folk tales are not the “penned agenda of one brainrattled individual” who employs “the most succulent portions of the human imagination” to author […]
‘Mit singen und klingen’: Urban Processional Culture and the Soundscapes of Post-Reformation Germany
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: “‘Mit singen und klingen’: Urban Processional Culture and the Soundscapes of Post-Reformation Germany”. In Listening to Early Modern Catholicism, ed. Daniele V. Filippi and Michael Noone, 187-203. Leiden: Brill, 2017. Weblink: https://brill.com
Lectiones sacrae: Musik um 1600 in Würzburg
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Julius Echter, Patron der Künste. Konturen eines Fürsten und Bischofs der Renaissance, edited by Damian Dombrowski, Markus Josef Maier, and Fabian Müller, 319-28. Translated by Damian Dombrowski. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017. Weblink: https://www.amazon.com
Luther, Martin
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Oxford Bibliographies in Music, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com. Published 27 July 2017 Weblink: doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199757824-0220
Composing Citoyennes through Sapho
Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: The Opera Quarterly 32, no. 1 (2016): 5-28. Weblink: https://academic.oup.com
Jonas Losch and Musical Culture in Late Sixteenth-Century Augsburg
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Schwaben 109 (2017): 85-95. Weblink: http://digital.bib-bvb.de/
Music and the Jesuit ‘Way of Proceeding’ in the German Counter-Reformation
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Journal of Jesuit Studies 3, no. 3 (2016): 377-97 Weblink: https://brill.com Abstract: The present essay considers the Jesuits’ relationship to musical culture along the confessional frontier of Germany, where the immediate presence of religious difference led to an explicit marking of space and boundaries, not least through visual and aural media. […]
Orphée at the Forains: Silencing and Silences in Old Regime France
Author: Lam, Hedy Publication details: Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918, edited by Kirsten Gibson and Ian Biddle, 111-126. London: Routledge, 2017. Weblink: https://taylorfrancis.com Abstract: For Robert Darnton this nursery rhyme bears witness to the fact that the early modern city was noisy. Dogs barked; peddlers shouted; beggars sang. But what […]