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Abramov-van Rijk, Elena. Singing Dante: the literary origins of Cinquecento monody. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. viii, 147 p. ISBN 9781472437990 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2014-013552
Royal Musical Association monographs; 26

Ahmed, Abbasuddin, and Nashid Kamal. My life in melodies. Adorn Publication, 2014. 224 p. ISBN 9789842004049. LC 2014-347307

Albertine, Viv. Clothes, clothes, clothes: music, music, music: boys, boys, boys: a memoir. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2014. ix, 421 p. ISBN 9781250065995 (hbk.). LC 2014-029971

Bailes, Sara Jane, and Nicholas Till, eds. Beckett and musicality. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. xiv, 285 p. ISBN 9781472409638 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2014-015547

Baker, Geoffrey. El Sistema: orchestrating Venezuela’s youth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 362 p. ISBN 9780199341559 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2014-012628

Bañagale, Ryan Raul. Arranging Gershwin: Rhapsody in blue and the creation of an American icon. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xv, 209 p. ISBN 9780199978373 (alk. paper). LC 2014-007171

Baram, Marcus. Gil Scott-Heron: pieces of a man. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2014. 305 p. ISBN 9781250012784 (hbk.). LC 2014-026384

Beaster-Jones, Jayson. Bollywood sounds: the cosmopolitan mediations of Hindi film song. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xx, 240 p. ISBN 9780199862542 (pbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 9780199993468 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2014-006919

Bebergal, Peter. Season of the witch: how the occult saved rock and roll. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2014. xxxiii, 252 p. ISBN 9780399167669. LC 2014-027012

Beck, Charles R. What to listen for in opera: an introductory handbook. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2014. viii, 278 p. ISBN 9780786496099 (pbk.; alk. paper). LC 2014-029575

Benward, Bruce, and Marilyn Nadine Saker. Music in theory and practice. 9th ed. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. 2 v. ISBN 9780078025150 (spiral bound). ISBN 007802515X (pbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 007802515X (hbk.). LC 2013-042060

Beviglia, Jim. Counting down Bruce Springsteen: his 100 finest songs. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. xvii, 201 p. ISBN 9781442230651 (hbk.). ISBN 9781442230668 (e-book). LC 2014-000692

Bordowitz, Hank, ed. Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin: interviews and encounters. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2014. xxi, 458 p. ISBN 9781613747544 (hbk.). LC 2014-017476

Boss, Jack Schoenberg’s twelve-tone music: symmetry and the musical idea. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xxviii, 437 p. ISBN 9781107046863 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2014-026790

Brand, Benjamin Holy treasure and sacred song: relic cults and their liturgies in medieval Tuscany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxii, 296 p. ISBN 9780199351350 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2013-044969

Brodbeck, David Defining Deutschtum: political ideology, German identity, and music-critical discourse in liberal Vienna. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xviii, 365 p. ISBN 9780199362707 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2013-050579
The new cultural history of music

Brody, Martin, ed. Music and musical composition at the American Academy in Rome. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. vii, 339 p. ISBN 9781580462457 (hbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 1580462456 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2014-034314
Eastman studies in music; 121

Brooks, Christopher A., and Robert Sims. Roland Hayes: the legacy of an American tenor. Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015. xviii, 401 p. ISBN 9780253015365 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2014-021653

Brown, Jake. Behind the boards II: the making of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest records revealed. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Books, 2014. viii, 292 p. ISBN 9781480350601. LC 2014-007444

Buchanan, Donna Anne, ed. Soundscapes from the Americas: ethnomusicological essays on the power, poetics, and ontology of performance. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. xiv, 194 p. ISBN 9781472415837 (hbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 9781472415882 (e-book). LC 2013-051046
SOAS musicology series

Carroll, Rachel, and Adam Hansen, eds. Litpop: writing and popular music. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. xiv, 243 p. ISBN 9781472410979 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2014-015491
Ashgate popular and folk music series

Choi, JungBong, and Roald Maliangkay, eds. K-pop: the international rise of the Korean music industry. New York: Routledge, 2014. xii, 181 p. ISBN 9781138775961 (hbk.). LC 2014-020168
Media, culture and social change in Asia series; 40

Clinton, George...