From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays
an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In The Music between Us …

Music is all pervasive and yet we often seem to take it for granted. By this I mean not so
much that we sometimes don't listen or even hear it when it's playing in the background, or …

The Cultural Study of Music is an anthology of new writings that serves as a basic textbook
on music and culture. Increasingly, music is being studied as it relates to specific cultures …

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical
materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in …

EVERYONE KNOWS what it is, don't they? If pressed for a definition, most musicians begin
with emotional evasions like'I feel'or'I believe'. That is not a helpful point of departure …

There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to
popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? David Brackett draws from …

Like literature and art, music has 'works'. But not every piece of music is called a work, and
not every musical performance is made up of works. The complexities of this situation are …

We greatly appreciate the opportunity to prepare a revised and updated edition of Music As
Culture. That this edition should be presented only two years after the initial printing is a …

What, exactly, is knowledge of music? And what does it tell us about humanistic knowledge
in general? The Thought of Music grapples directly with these fundamental questions …

In contradistinction to common adages proclaiming music's inability to represent anything
other than itself, there are remarkably complex ways in which identities—both embedded …