Books Recently Published

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Abbott, Lynn, and Doug Seroff. The original blues: the emergence of the blues in African American vaudeville. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. viii, 420 p. ISBN 9781496810021. LC 2016-020375

American made music series

Ahlers, Michael, and Christoph Jacke, eds. Perspectives on German popular music. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017. xvii, 320 p. ISBN 9781472479624 (hbk.; alk. paper). LC 2016-032100

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Arena, James. Stars of 21st century dance pop and EDM: 33 DJs, producers and singers discuss their careers. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2017. ix, 242 p. ISBN 9781476670225. LC 2017-017679

Arnold, R. J. Musical debate and political culture in France, 1700–1830. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2017. vi, 232 p. ISBN 9781783272013. ISBN 1783272015. LC 2017-561141

Music in society and culture

Bacon, Reginald W. Vintage from vinyl: early recordings of the Goodtime Ragtime Vaudeville Revival: presenting a panorama of musical Americana, a collection of music & song from the ragtime, jazz, and vaudeville years!: jug band, string band, blues, banjos, washboards, kazoos!: audience favorites and obscure novelties for your musical merriment and entertainment pleasure! Newburyport, MA: Variety Arts Press, 2017. 192 p. ISBN 9780997752809. LC 2016-920942

Baker, David, and Lucy Green. Insights in sound: visually impaired musicians' lives and learning. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017. xiv, 271 p. ISBN 9781138209312. LC 2016-037870

Music and change: ecological perspectives

Bartenstein, Fred, ed. Roots music in America: collected writings of Joe Wilson. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2017. xix, 290 p. ISBN 9781621903154. LC 2016-049351

Charles K. Wolfe music series

Beach, David. Schubert's mature instrumental music: a theorist's perspective. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2017. x, 212 p. ISBN 9781580465922. LC 2017-011120

Eastman studies in music; 142

Beres, Karen, and Christopher Hahn. The pianist's guide to standard teaching and performance concertos: an invaluable resource of keyboard concertos from baroque through contemporary periods for teachers, students, and performers. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music, 2017. ix, 133 p. ISBN 99781470638108 (pbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 147063810X (pbk.; alk. paper). LC 2017-019955

Bickford, Tyler. Schooling new media: music, language, and technology in children's culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. ix, 188 p. ISBN 9780190654146. ISBN 9780190654153. ISBN 9780190654184. LC 2016-045105

Biddle, Ian D., and Kirsten Gibson, eds. Cultural histories of noise, sound and listening in Europe, 1300–1918. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017. xii, 279 p. ISBN 99781409444398. ISBN 9781409444404. ISBN 9781472406095. LC 2015-019017

Blauner, Andrew, ed. In their lives: great writers on great Beatles songs. New York: Blue Rider Press, 2017. xv, 300 p. ISBN 9780735210691. LC 2016-053859

Bodley, Lorraine Byrne, ed. Music in Goethe's Faust: Goethe's Faust in music. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2017. xix, 336 p. ISBN 1783272007. ISBN 9781783272006. LC 2017-561140

Bohn, James Matthew. Music in Disney's animated features: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The jungle book. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. xviii, 294 p. ISBN 9781496812148. LC 2016-058506

Boomhower, Daniel F., ed. A basic music library: essential scores and sound recordings. 4th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2017. 3 v. ISBN 9780838910399. ISBN 9780838915301. ISBN 9780838915318. LC 2013-020223

Born, Georgina, Eric Lewis, and Will Straw, eds. Improvisation and social aesthetics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. vii, 345 p. ISBN 9780822361787 (hbk.; alk. paper). ISBN 9780822361947 (pbk.; alk. paper). LC 2016-045052

Improvisation, community, and social practice

Brewer, Charles E. William Billings, an early American composer of music and his seditious song "Chester": the cultural significance of tune names during the American Revolution. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2017. 173 p. ISBN 9781495505799. ISBN 1495505790. LC 2017-031146

Browning, Birch. An orientation to musical pedagogy: becoming a musician-educator. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. viii, 229 p. ISBN 9780199928200. ISBN 9780199928224. LC 2016-039594

Buck, David N. A musicology for landscape. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017. xx, 178 p. ISBN 9781138694422. ISBN 1138694428. ISBN 9781472479389. ISBN 1472479386. LC 2016-049110

Design research in architecture

Bugyis, Katie Ann-Marie, A. B. Kraebel, and Margot Elsbeth Fassler...