Musikrecensioner & musikkritik

Japan's jazz community-both musicians and audience-has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this …

The mid-20th century saw the birth of a new kind of big band/orchestral music in what came to be called 'Easy Listening'. Like its contemporary, rock 'n' roll, it took the world by …

Made in Poland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Polish popular music. Each essay, written …

A woman wearing a ballgown singing in the snow for returning ski troops; a technician's tears ruining a master recording of a new wartime song; fresh recruits spontaneously …

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This Must Be The Place is the first architectural history of popular music performance space, describing its beginnings, its different typologies, and its development into a …

Revived with new intensity at the end of the twentieth century, questions of meaning and interpretation in music continue to generate widespread interest and give rise to new …

Kein deutschsprachiger Lyriker wurde so häufig vertont wie Goethe. Das betrifft allerdings nicht seinen bedeutendsten Gedichtband, den „West-östlichen Divan“. Von wenigen Ausnahmen …

From the introduction: "While the aim has been to make the story-sketches interesting to young people, the author hopes that they may prove valuable to musical readers of all ages. …

Outside and Inside: Representations of Race and Identity in White Jazz Autobiography is the first full-length study of key autobiographies of white jazz musicians. White musicians …