This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the ser

Music/Ideology is a response to the question: Must the practice of music analysis and music theory always reinscribe the ideology of aesthetic autonomy? And, if

Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and mus

This book focuses on two main topics related to the essence of music, the first of which problematizes the ontological unity of music, philosophy and mathematic

Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music, where a love song dedication can cost 6,000