New Arrivals: January 2019

A selection of new books, journals, and other collections:

Chopin’s Piano: In Search of the Instrument that Transformed Music
Paul Kildea
W.W. Norton & Company

The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790–1820
Edited by Katherine G. Hambridge & Jonathan Hicks
University of Chicago Press

Singing in the Age of Anxiety: Lieder Performances in New York and London between the World Wars
Laura Tunbridge
University of Chicago Press

Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object
Byron Hawk
University of Pittsburgh Press

Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century
Nate Chinen
Pantheon

Queen of bebop : the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan
Elaine M. Hayes
Ecco

Religion and Popular Music: Artists, Fans, and Cultures
Andreas Hager
Bloomsbury Academic

Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Nina Goss and Eric Hoffman
University Press of Mississippi

Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
David Yaffe
Sarah Crichton Books

Toscanini: Musician of Conscience
Harvey Sachs
Liveright

Bach Perspectives, Volume 12: Bach and the Counterpoint of Religion
Robin A. Leaver
University of Illinois Press

Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration
Thomas Brothers
W.W. Norton & Company

American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen
Gavin Cologne-Brookes
LSU Press

The Trouble with Wagner
Michael P. Steinberg
University of Chicago Press

Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera
Gundula Kreuzer
University of California Press

Los Romeros: Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar
Walter Aaron Clark
University of Illinois Press

Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
Eli Maor
Princeton University Press

Right to the Juke Joint: A Personal History of American Music
Patrick B. Mullen
University of Illinois Press

Allusion as narrative premise in Brahms’s instrumental music
Jacquelyn E.C. Sholes
Indiana University Press

Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe’s Oldest Surviving Folk Music
Christopher C. King
W.W. Norton & Company

Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement
Naomi Andre
University of Illinois Press