Browse: Duke University Press (publisher), Theory, Musicology, & Analysis

Healing Songs provides a penetrating look at therapeutic music. . . . Healing Songs is the type of book which will certainly have a wide reading appeal among those who enjoy jazz, music, sonic... — Jazz Review More…

A gift to the fields of Asian studies, sound studies, and cultural studies, speaking between and across each in order to posit a theory of sound that is attuned to the affective and sociopolitical... — Society for American Music More…

Eidsheim's formulation of music as vibrational practice engenders new ways of considering communication between singer and audience, environment and body, and animate and inanimate materials.... — Theatre Research International More…

At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten's trilogy has reinvented both. . . . In its mixture of theoretical complexity and disarming... — Vulture More…

The boldest aspect of Boon's argument . . . is his move to the level of ontology-to the nature of being or reality itself. For him music's social and racial significance operates not at the... — The Wire More…

Erlmann’s latest publication brings together a series of interesting and diverse ethnographic moments that illustrate the complex state of contemporary South African copyright. ...  The book... — Yearbook for Traditional Music More…

James is an insightful philosopher and sharp cultural critic drawing comparisons between musical phenomena such as compression and the loudness wars, and the damages wreaked by neoliberal market... — The Wire More…