Over the past quarter century, music studies in the academy have their postmodern credentials by insisting that our scholarly engagements start and end by placi

Changes our picture of how music and politics interact through a rigorous and wide-ranging reappraisal of the field.

A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans. For ove

Listening - Sacrificing - Representing - Repeating - Composing - The politics of silence and sound, by Susan McClary.

How is music implicated in the politics of belonging? Provocatively fusing recent European philosophy with music theory, this book explores the instrumental mus