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  • Compiled by James Procell and Matthew Ertz

This column is compiled quarterly from a variety of sources, including publisher and vendor websites and announcements. If you are an author or editor of a recently-published music book and would like to request that it be included in a future column, please send a message to music.library@louisville.edu.

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Alexander, Dan. Dan Alexander Audio: a vintage odyssey. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. xix, 415 p. ISBN 9781538142011.
Alge, Barbara. Gold, festivals, and music in southeast Brazil: sounding Portugueseness. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. xi, 199 p. ISBN 9780367229856.

SOAS studies in music

Aluede, Charles, et. al., eds. Contemporary dimensions in Nigerian music: a festschrift for Arugha Aboyowa Ogisi. Lagos: Malthouse Press, 2021. xxviii, 289 p. ISBN 9789785829785.
Anderson, Ange. Music, sound and vibration in special education: how to enrich your specialist setting. London: Routledge, 2021. xv, 168 p. ISBN 9780367708283.
Andrews, Richard. Polyrhythmicity in language, music and society: complex time relations in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021. xxi, 168 p. ISBN 9789811605659.

Cultural studies and transdisciplinarity in education; 12

Apatoff, Ben. Metallica: the $24.95 book. Lanham: Backbeat Books, 2021. 283 p. ISBN 9781493061341.
Archer-Capuzzo, Sonia, and Guy Capuzzo. Metaldata: a bibliography of heavy metal resources. Middleton: Music Library Association & A-R Editions, 2021. vii, 200 p. ISBN 9780895798923.

MLA index and bibliography series; 43

Asim, G’Ra. Boyz n the void: a mixtape to my brother. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021. 278 p. ISBN 9780807059487.
Atkinson, Brian T. Looks like rain: the songwriting legacy of Mickey Newbury. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2021. xvii, 225 p. ISBN 9781623499266.

John and Robin Dickson series in Texas music

Audissino, Emilio. The film music of John Williams: reviving Hollywood’s classical style. 2d ed. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. xiii, 381 p. ISBN 9780299332341.

Wisconsin film studies

Baade, Christina, and Kristin McGee, eds. Beyoncé in the world: making meaning with Queen Bey in troubled times. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2021. xx, 423 p. ISBN 9780819579911.

Music/culture

Baca, Max. Crossing borders: my journey in music. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2021. xviii, 169 p. ISBN 9780826362513.
Bader, Rolf. How music works: a physical culture theory. Cham: Springer, 2021. xviii, 287 p. ISBN 9783030671549.
Baker, Geoffrey. Rethinking social action through music: the search for coexistence and citizenship in Medellín’s music schools. Cambridge: Open Book Pub., 2021. xv, 456 p. ISBN 9781800641266.
Battentier, Andy. A sociology of sound technicians: making the show go on. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2021. xxxi, 140 p. ISBN 9783658330286.

Musik und Gesellschaft

Beasley, Kimberly Eckel, and James P. Beasley. Dramatism and musical theater: experiments in rhetorical performance. New York: Peter Lang, 2021. xi, 226 p. ISBN 9781433172847.
Beckerman, Michael, and Paul Boghossian, eds. Classical music: contemporary perspectives and challenges. Cambridge: Open Book Pub., 2021. xlv, 199 p. ISBN 9781800641143.
Bennett, Peter. Music and power at the court of Louis XIII: sounding the liturgy in early modern France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiv, 324 p. ISBN 9781108830638.
Bertei, Adele. Why LaBelle matters. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. xviii, 188 p. ISBN 9781477320402.

Music matters; 6

Bichta, Tomasz, and Anna Szwed-Walczak, eds. Political music: legitimization and contestation. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021. 225 p. ISBN 9783631840368.

Interdisciplinary studies in performance; 26

Blair, Linda Nicole. Fempoetiks of American poetry and Americana music: a woman’s truth. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. vii, 287 p. ISBN 9781793621269.
Boffone, Trevor. Renegades: digital dance cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvii, 167 p. ISBN 9780197577684.
Bonini Baraldi, Filippo, and Margaret Rigaud. Roma music and emotion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xxvii, 335 p. ISBN 9780190096786.
Borg, Bobby, and Michael Eames. Introduction to music publishing for musicians: business and creative perspectives for the new music industry. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. xxv, 323 p. ISBN 9781538153390.

Music pro guides

Boucher, David, and Lucy Boucher. Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: deaths and entrances. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 304 p. ISBN 9781501345654.
Bourdaghs, Michael K., Paola Iovene, and Kaley Mason, eds. Sound alignments: popular music in Asia’s cold wars. Durham: Duke University Press...

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