University of California Press

Vest's merits as a musicologist and writer include a lucid prose style (scattered with occasional gems of poetic description), a dramatist's flair for rhetorical structuring, and an archivist's... — Music and Letters More…

Schoenberg would have been fascinated by this book, with its outstanding intellectual vision and its steps towards a reconciliation between notions of tonality and twentieth-century pitch structure — Music and Letters More…

Thoughtful and thought-provoking... All present are the qualities noted of Kramer's impeccable writing: grace, deftness of touch, wide reading — Choice More…

Artists, educators, and activists discuss how hip-hop goes beyond music in this prolific and illuminating book — Library Journal More…

Summing Up: Recommended — Choice More…