Containing 221 titles, Duke University Press’s Music and Sound Studies e-book collection pushes at the edges of how music is discussed. Its innovative ethnomusicology titles find new links between music and culture, and its groundbreaking sound studies titles establish a new framework for theorizing the larger context of how we listen. The collection also includes essential works in jazz studies and popular music studies, biographies and memoirs of prominent musicians, and essay collections by important music critics. Addressing musical cultures from around the world, this interdisciplinary collection considers music and sound broadly, taking into account all their social, cultural, physiological, and technological dimensions.
Recent titles bring music’s cultural impact into focus, from global icons to enduring artistic legacies. P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance, draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in a historical, political, and cultural context. Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince, is a collection thatconsiders the enduring cultural and sonic impact of David Bowie and Prince, bringing together essays that explore their influence across music, performance, race, and identity. Clowns in the Burying Ground: The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy is an interdisciplinary study that connects the Grateful Dead’s music and legacy.
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