1. Coelho, Victor and Keith Polk. 2016. Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture, 1420-1600: Players of Function and Fantasy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ligrani, Jonathan 2019 Reviews MusicologyRenaissanceInstrumentalistsCourts and courtiersComposition (Music)
2. Iverson, Jennifer. 2018. Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold-War Musical Avant Garde. New York: Oxford University Press. Gordon, Ted 2019 Reviews MusicologyElectronic musicCold War (1945-1989)Sound studiosGermans--Music
3. Chávez, Alex E. 2017. Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Banerjee-Datta, Nandini Rupa 2018 Reviews EthnomusicologyAnthropologyMexican Americans--MusicEmigration and immigration--Songs and musicVoice--Social aspects
4. David Brackett. 2016. Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Berkeley: University of California Press Johnson, Thomas 2018 Reviews MusicologyPopular music genresMusic--HistoriographyTwentieth centuryMusic trade
5. Fink, Robert, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark (eds). 2018. The Relentless Pursuit of Tone. New York: Oxford University Press. Lavengood, Megan L. 2018 Reviews MusicologyTone color (Music)Music--Social aspectsSound recordings--Production and directionMusic and race
6. Kreuzer, Gundula. 2018. Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Rothe, Alexander Karl 2018 Reviews MusicologyOperaMass media--Study and teachingTheater--Production and directionTechnology and the artsWagner, Richard, 1813-1883
7. Mary I. Ingraham, Joseph K. So, and Roy Moodley, eds. 2016. Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance. New York: Routledge Forner, Jane 2018 Reviews MusicologyOpera--Social aspectsMusic--Effect of multiculturalism onMusic and raceOperas--Performances
8. Steingo, Gavin. 2016. Kwaito’s Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press Clark, Emily Hansell 2018 Reviews EthnomusicologyKwaito (Music)Popular music--Political aspectsInterdisciplinary approach to knowledgeMusic--Philosophy and aestheticsRancière, Jacques
9. Yasar, Kerim. 2018. Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945. New York: Columbia University Press. Cressy, Thomas A. 2018 Reviews MusicologyNation-buildingTechnology and the artsMusic--Social aspectsHistory, ModernSound--Study and teaching
10. Andrey Smirnov. 2013. Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-Century Russia Patteson, Thomas 2017 Reviews Twentieth centuryMusique concrèteElectronic musicAvant-garde (Music)Social evolution