Books in the Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series series

For several decades, Scott Burnham has sought to bring a ready ear and plenty of humanistic warmth to musicological inquiry. This title features eighteen of his essays on mainstream Western music, music theory, aesthetics and criticism.

This collection brings together an anthology of articles by Thomas Christensen, one of the leading historians of music theory active today. Published over the span of the past 25 years.

This collection of previously published articles, chapters and keynotes traces both the theoretical contribution of Lucy Green to the emergent field of the sociology of music education, and her radical 'hands-on' practical work in classrooms and instrumental studios.

Selected from writings from 1984 to 2008, this collection of essays provides an introduction to the author's some of the most innovative and influential work on a wide variety of topics: musicological methodology, issues of staging and performance, Italian opera, program music, and exemplary studies of individual pieces.

As a sociologist Simon Frith takes the starting point that music is the result of the play of social forces, whether as an idea, an experience or an activity. This book addresses these forces, recognising that music is an effect of a continuous process of negotiation, dispute, and agreement between the individual actors who make up a music world.

Provides a collection of the author's studies on critical musicology. This collection gathers essays and lectures, along with an introduction outlining the context of the contributions and commenting on their aims and significance. It provides retrospective view of his achievements in bringing to musicological discourse the experiences of past.

Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others when speaking about music? How do we locate these meanings within particular musical styles? This title examines how conventions of representation arise and how they become established.

Divided into four parts: Interpretation and Polemics, Gender and Sexuality, Popular Music, and Early Music. Each of the essays treats music as cultural text and has an interdisciplinary appeal. This title is intended for those interested in the life and times of a renegade musicologist.

A selection of sixteen essays covers the period from 1987 to 2004 and brings out the development of the author's ideas over these years. This title explores a variety of topics, ranging from Beethoven to Schenker, from Chinese qin music to jazz and rock, from perceptual psychology to sketch studies and analysis of record sleeves.