Browse: Duke University Press (publisher), Rock & Pop

Punk and Revolution shines as an archival project. . . . [Greene's] commitment to telling the story of punk through alternative styles, aesthetics, and forms will make his book appeal not only... — American Ethnologist More…

One of the best music books of 2010, Tara Rodgers's Pink Noises, gave an accessible window into what looks to be many years of research into gender, identity and electronic music — The Quietus More…

Ever since people started writing about rock, other people have made fun of them. Anthony DeCurtis's anthology, with its clutch of academics, rock writers and musicians, will strike cynics as... — The New York Times More…

Japanoise, on one hand, delineates Noise's historical resonance with musique concrete, post-war jazz, experimental rock and Dada happenings, to name just a few orienting styles. On the other,... — Ethnomusicology Forum More…

This is a fascinating subject. Jayna Brown's study of well-known, little-known, and unknown African American female performers-from minstrels to 'coon cantatrices,' from dancers to jazz trumpeters-in... — Journal of American History More…

With this compelling volume, DeFrantz and Gonzalez provide less a settled corpus of methodologies applied to a canon of academically sanctioned performance genres than an articulation and elaboration... — Choice More…

Petra R. Rivera-Rideau's Remixing Reggaeton presents an insightful reading of reggaeton as a discursive cultural practice inextricably linked to the experience of blackness in the African diaspora....... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…