Books listed below are available for review in upcoming issues of Echo. Please contact our Reviews Editor if you are interested in reviewing one of the following books or if you are interested in a book not on this list. Consult the “How to Submit” page for review formatting requirements.
- Anderson, Bill and Peter Cooper. Whisperin’ Bill anderson: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2016.
- Ashton-Smith, Alan. Gypsy Music: The Balkans and Beyond. London: Reaktion Books, 2017.
- Atkinson, David and Steve Roud, eds. Street Ballad in Nineteenth Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface between Print and Oral Traditions. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014.
- Bartmanski, Dominik and Ian Woodward, eds. Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.
- Belgiojoso, Ricciarda. Constructing Urban Space with Sounds and Music. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2014.
- Bent, Ian, David Bretherton, and William Drabkin, eds. Heinrich Schenker: Selected Correspondence. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2014.
- Boden, Anthony and Paul Hedley. The Three Choirs Festival: A History. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017.
- Carr, Paul. Sting: From Northern skies to Fields of Gold. London: Reaktion Books, 2017.
- Collins, John. Fela: Kalakuta Notes. 2nd ed. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2015.
- Carroll, Rachel and Adam Hansen, eds. Litpop: Writing and Popular Music. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2014.
- Cobbe, Alec and Christopher Nobbs. Three Hundred Years of Composers’ Instruments: The Cobbe Collection. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2014.
- Cutietta, Robert A. Who Knew? Answers to Classical Music You Never Thought to Ask. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Eskew, Glenn T. Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2013.
- Fannin, David and Michelle Assay. Carl Nielsen: Selected Letters and Diaries. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2017.
- Fauser, Annegret. The Politics of Musical Identity. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2015.
- Fauteux, Brian. Music in Range: The Culture of Canadian Campus Radio. Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015.
- Gunter, Sheila D. Uncommon Lyricisms: Modest Musorgksy’s Early Songs. 2015.
- Gurd, Sean Alexander. Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016.
- Junod, Philippe. Counterpoints: Dialogues Between Music and the Visual Arts. London: Reaktion Books, 2017.
- Knapp, Raymond. Making Light: Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
- LaBelle, Brandon. Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
- Laderman, David and Laurel Westrup. Sampling Media. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Lee-Browne, Martin and Paul Guinery. Delius and His Music. Rochester: Boydell Press, 2014.
- Leikin, Anatole. The Mystery of Chopin’s Préludes. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2015.
- Leonard, Kendra Preston. Louise Talma: A Life in Composition. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2014.
- Lloyd, Stephen Constant Lambert: Beyond The Rio Grande. Rochester: Boydell Press, 2014.
- Malone, Christopher and George Martinez, Jr., eds. The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.
- Maunder, Richard. The Scoring of Early Classical Concertos 1750-1780. Rochester: Boydell Press, 2014.
- Nooshin, Laudan. Iranian Classical Music: The Discourses and Practice of Creativity. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2015.
- Orejuela, Fernando. Rap and Hip Hop Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Reina, Rafael. Applying Karnatic Rhythmical Techniques to Western Music. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2015.
- Richardson, John, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis, eds. The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Shadle, Douglas W. Orchestrating the Nation: The Nineteenth-Century American Symphonic Enterprise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Simeone, Nigel and John Tyrrell, eds. Charles Mackerras. Rochester: Boydell Press, 2015.
- Stajn, Radmila Paunovic and Slobodan Lazarevic. The Mythological in the Operas of Benjamin Britten. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2014.
- Szendy, Peter. Translated by Roland Végső. All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.
- Vernallis, Carol, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Voegelin, Salome. Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
- Wallrup, Erik. Being Musically Attuned: The Act of Listening to Music. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2015.
- Warner, Daniel. Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music. London: Reaktion Books, 2017.
- Wilshire, Bruce W. The Much-at-Once: Music, Science, Ecstasy, the Body. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016.