On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, m

The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow takes a fresh look at the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Offering an alternative to the tra

How Music Empowers argues that empowerment is the key to unlocking the long-standing mystery of how music moves us. Drawing upon cutting-edge research in embodi

This book presents advances in speech and music in the domain of audio signal processing. The book begins with introductory chapters on the basics of speech and

The volume explores the various intersections and interconnections of the self and popular music in fiction; it examines questions of musical taste and identity