Duke University Press

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…

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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…

This work . . . is an excellent addition to the literature on sound. It is a stimulating and thought-provoking book that addresses not only basic philosophical ideas but also highly practical... — Choice 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…

Fellezs succeeds in being both academic and a fan. He succeeds in bringing these four artists in from the margins while recognising their cross-cultural capital lies in their non-belonging to... — Jazzwise More…

Recalling Smita Tiwari Jassal's own ancestral roots in this rural region, I see this lovingly researched book as embodying one such way of remembering, reframing, and transmitting songs into... — Journal of Folklore Research More…

Licia Fiol-Matta has written a marvelous exploration of the voice. In the process, she assembles a vocal archive of Puerto Rican performers whose labor is usually relegated to footnotes or cursory... — Journal of Popular Music Studies More…