Opera; recorded music; Miles Davis Quintet

Evenings at the opera : an exploration of the basic repertoire / Jeffrey Langford. Milwaukee, WI : Amadeus Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Recorded music : performance, culture and technology / edited by Amanda Bayley. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

The studio recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68 / Keith Waters. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Music

Clover, Joshua. 1989: Bob Dylan didn’t have this to sing about. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Klein, Bethany. As heard on TV: popular music in advertising. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Bijsterveld, Karin, and José van Dijck, eds. Sound souvenirs: audio technologies, memory and cultural practices. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Music

Johnson, Bruce, and Martin Cloonan. Dark side of the tune: popular music and violence. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2008. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Cooper, David. The musical traditions of Northern Ireland and its diaspora: community and conflict. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Peters, Gary. The philosophy of improvisation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Gender and culture; music; World War I

Gordon, Sarah A. “Make it yourself”: home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Hodgdon, Tim. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: masculinity in two countercultural communities, 1965-93. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Marchenkov, Vladimir L. The Orpheus myth and the powers of music. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 20093.(Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Steuer, Kenneth. Pursuit of an “unparalleled opportunity”: American YMCA and prisoner of war diplomacy among the Central Power nations during World War I, 1914-1923. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Jewish music in Nazi Germany; feminism; class and gender

Hirsch, Lily E. A Jewish orchestra in Nazi Germany: musical politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Stansell, Christine. The feminist promise: 1792 to the present. New York: Modern Library, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Srole, Carole. Transcribing class and gender: masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Music

Hentoff, Nat. At the jazz band ball: sixty years on the jazz scene. Berkeley: University of California press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Dunaway, David King, and Molly Beer. Singing out: an oral history of America’s folk music revivals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.(Publisher’s description)

Rasmussen, Karl Aage. Sviatoslav Richter: pianist. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Film studies

Addison, Heather, Mary Kate Goodwin-Kelly, and Elaine Roth, eds. Motherhood misconceived: representing the maternal in U.S. films. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Hayward, Philip, ed. Terror tracks: music, sound and horror cinema. London: Equinox, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Rascaroli, Laura. The personal camera: subjective cinema and the essay film. London; New York: Wallflower Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Cook, Bernie, ed. Thelma & Louise live!: the cultural afterlife of an American film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. (Publisher’s description)

Biography

Smith, Patti. Just kids. New York: Ecco, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Wall, Mick. When giants walked the earth: a biography of Led Zeppelin. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008. (Publisher’s description)

Weaver, Helen. The awakener: a memoir of Kerouac and the fifties. San Francisco, Calif.: City Lights Books, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Music

Kelley, Robin D.G. Thelonious Monk: the life and times of an American original. New York: Free Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Milner, Greg. Perfecting sound forever: an aural history of recorded music. New York: Faber and Faber, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Garrett, Charles Hiroshi. Struggling to define a nation: American music and the twentieth century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. (Publisher’s description)

Music

Winkler, Allan M. To everything there is a season: Pete Seeger and the power of song. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Savran, David. Highbrow/lowdown: theater, jazz, and the making of the new middle class. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Howland, John. Ellington uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, & the birth of concert jazz. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Morgan, Marcyliena. The real hiphop: battling for knowledge, power, and respect in the LA underground. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)