New(ish) Music History, Musicology + Ethnomusicology Books

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Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1)
Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1) 4.33 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
by: Dan Ozzi
4.38 avg rating β€” 6,026 ratings
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Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres 4.15 avg rating β€” 2,387 ratings
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The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture
The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture 4.40 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 4.39 avg rating β€” 3,939 ratings
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Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture
Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,046 ratings
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Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music
Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music 3.20 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
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There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream
There Was a Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream 4.25 avg rating β€” 40 ratings
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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,089 ratings
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Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion 4.04 avg rating β€” 502 ratings
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Music Is History
Music Is History 3.86 avg rating β€” 4,972 ratings
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Sustaining Indigenous Songs: Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia
Sustaining Indigenous Songs: Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Top Eight: How MySpace Changed Music
Top Eight: How MySpace Changed Music 3.42 avg rating β€” 110 ratings
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The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth 3.76 avg rating β€” 300 ratings
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Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II
Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II 4.22 avg rating β€” 41 ratings
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
by: Alex Ross
4.18 avg rating β€” 1,210 ratings
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On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement
On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement 4.21 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology
Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology 3.55 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction
Music and Technology: A Very Short Introduction
by: Mark Katz
3.92 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
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How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,096 ratings
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The Music of the Other
The Music of the Other 3.94 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS
Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS 3.65 avg rating β€” 604 ratings
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Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap 3.98 avg rating β€” 107 ratings
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Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient South American Cultures
Music of El Dorado: The Ethnomusicology of Ancient South American Cultures really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology
Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology 4.40 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction
Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction 3.74 avg rating β€” 161 ratings
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Chuck D. Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History
Chuck D. Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History
by: Chuck D.
3.90 avg rating β€” 187 ratings
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The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts
The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts 4.10 avg rating β€” 154 ratings
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by: Alex Ross
4.10 avg rating β€” 15,704 ratings
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Choreographing Identities: Folk Dance, Ethnicity and Festival in the United States and Canada
Choreographing Identities: Folk Dance, Ethnicity and Festival in the United States and Canada liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music 4.17 avg rating β€” 1,113 ratings
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Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection (Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection (Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology) 4.17 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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World Music: Traditions and Transformations
World Music: Traditions and Transformations 3.62 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions
Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions 4.33 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Djoliba Crossing: Journeys Into West African Music and Culture
Djoliba Crossing: Journeys Into West African Music and Culture 4.45 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender
A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender 4.32 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains
Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop (Inklings, #6)
Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop (Inklings, #6) 4.19 avg rating β€” 104 ratings
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Music in Egypt: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series)
Music in Egypt: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series) 3.88 avg rating β€” 41 ratings
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Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century 4.35 avg rating β€” 154 ratings
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Music in the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series)
Music in the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series) 3.80 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture
The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture 4.18 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
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Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Queerness in Pop Music
Queerness in Pop Music really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop
Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop 3.91 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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This Woman's Work: Essays on Music
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music 3.70 avg rating β€” 607 ratings
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Queer Country
Queer Country 4.22 avg rating β€” 64 ratings
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Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,779 ratings
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You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music
You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music 3.23 avg rating β€” 165 ratings
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Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution
Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution 4.04 avg rating β€” 92 ratings
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Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary
Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary 4.05 avg rating β€” 585 ratings
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Black Women and Music: More Than the Blues
Black Women and Music: More Than the Blues 4.30 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Music Beyond Airports: Appraising Ambient Music
Music Beyond Airports: Appraising Ambient Music 3.88 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music
From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US
DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US 4.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Rockistan: History of the Most Turbulent Music Genre in Pakistan
Rockistan: History of the Most Turbulent Music Genre in Pakistan 4.50 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time 3.35 avg rating β€” 3,401 ratings
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On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone 4.26 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars
Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars 3.77 avg rating β€” 874 ratings
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You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music
You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music 3.85 avg rating β€” 256 ratings
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Authenticity in the Music of Video Games
Authenticity in the Music of Video Games 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies (Routledge Music and Screen Media Series)
Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies (Routledge Music and Screen Media Series) 4.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the "Final Fantasy" Series
The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the "Final Fantasy" Series 4.25 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Popular Music in the Nostalgia Video Game: The Way It Never Sounded
Popular Music in the Nostalgia Video Game: The Way It Never Sounded it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music
Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music 4.53 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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Pixel Soundtracks: Exploring Video Game Music through Twenty Games
Pixel Soundtracks: Exploring Video Game Music through Twenty Games 4.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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A Composer's Guide to Game Music
A Composer's Guide to Game Music 4.22 avg rating β€” 172 ratings