Table of Contents

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Western Music in Antiquity
Edited by Sean A. Gurd and Pauline A. LeVen

Introduction: Ancient Music, Then and Now, Sean Gurd and Pauline LeVen
1. Society: Culture, Cohesion, and Crisis, Lauren Curtis
2. Philosophies: Musical Knowing, Tom Phillips
3. Politics: Musical Symbols and Civic Rhythms, Sarah Olsen
4. Exchange: Music Between Species and Culture, Sean Gurd
5. Education: Myth, Ritual, and Socialization, Carolyn Laferrière
6. Popular Culture: At the Festival, Hanna Golab
7. Performance: Ghosts, Identity, Ontologies, Pauline LeVen
8. Technologies: From Minds to Machines, Sean Gurd and Pauline LeVen


Volume 2: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages
Edited by Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen Deeming

Introduction: Music Defined and Distributed in the Western Middle Ages, Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen Deeming
1. Society: Practicing Music Under Ecclesiastical Dominance, Nils Holger Petersen
2. Philosophies: Cosmos and Politics, Harmony and Disharmony, Andrew Hicks and Jonathan Morton
3. Politics: Courts, Conquests, and Crusades, Helen Deeming
4. Exchange: Liturgical Reform, Pilgrimage, and Saints’ Cults, Rebecca Maloy
5. Education: Growing Up In Music, Susan Boynton and Anne Levitsky
6. Popular Culture: In Search of Lost Practices, Meghan Quinlan and Joseph W. Mason
7. Performance: On Absent Sounds, Notes, and Words, Anna Zayaruznaya
8. Technologies: Instruments and Notation, David Catalunya

Volume 3: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance
Edited by Jeanice Brooks and Richard Freedman

Introduction: Mobilizing Music, Jeanice Brooks and Richard Freedman
1. Society: Music, Musicians, and the Renaissance Social Order, Kirsten Gibson
2. Philosophies: The Crisis of Musical Knowledge, Melinda Latour
3. Politics: Staging Power, Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard
4. Exchange: Conduits, Objects, and Earwitnesses, Evan A. MacCarthy
5. Education: Music Among the Challenges of Early Modernity, Daniele V. Filippi
6. Popular Culture: Three Cases and Some Observations, Remi Chiu
7. Performance: Expression, Emotion, and Identity, Jeanice Brooks
8. Technologies: Music, Art, and Techne in the Renaissance, Richard Freedman

Volume 4: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by David R.M. Irving and Estelle Joubert

Introduction: Musicking in the Age of Enlightenment, David R.M. Irving and Estelle Joubert
1. Society: Music and Community, Estelle Joubert
2. Philosophies: Making Sense of Vibration, Roger Mathew Grant
3. Politics: Music and the Law, Rebekah Ahrendt
4. Exchange: Musical Transactions Around the World, David R.M. Irving
5. Education: Forming Musical Identities, Stephen Rose
6. Popular Culture: Let’s Use Scare Quotes, Elisabeth Le Guin
7. Performance: On and Off the Page, Geoffrey Burgess
8. Technologies: Musical Media of Enlightenment, Rebecca Cypess

Volume 5: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial Age
Edited by Alexander Rehding and Naomi Waltham-Smith

Introduction: Toppling Romanticism, Naomi Waltham-Smith and Alexander Rehding
1. Society: Unthinking Musical History, Benjamin Walton
2. Philosophy: The Rise of Materiality, Michael Gallope
3. Politics: The Unexceptional Politicking of Labor, Enjoyment, and Obstruction, Naomi Waltham-Smith
4. Exchange: The Geopolitics of Ethnographic Recordings, Music, and Sound, Ana M. Ochoa Gautier
5. Education: Discipline and Delight, Laura Tunbridge
6. Popular Culture: Whose Music? What People?, Adrian Daub
7. Performance: Making Music Manifest, Roger Moseley
8. Technology: Composing in Sounds, Alexander Rehding

Volume 6: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age
Edited by William Cheng and Danielle Fosler-Lussier

Introduction: The Stories We Hope to Share, William Cheng
1. Society: Global Trajectories and the Universal-Particular Paradox, Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang
2. Philosophy: Theosophy and Esoteric Musical Modernism, Anna Gawboy
3. Politics: Music, Nation States, and the “Small World” in the Long Twentieth Century, Danielle Fosler-Lussier
4. Exchange: Modernist Approaches across Oceans and Borders, Marysol Quevedo
5. Education: Children’s Music and Visions of Citizenship, Anicia Timberlake
6. Popular Culture: Musical Performance as Cultural Activism, Ellie M. Hisama
7. Performance: The Changing Norm of Musical Practice in Everyday Life, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton
8. Technology: Media, Myths, and Movements, Penny Brandt and Rob Deemer

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About the Author

Alexander Rehding is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University and author of Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (2003), Music and Monumentality (2009), and Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 (2017). He is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Handbooks Online: Music.

David Irving is affiliated to ICREA & Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC, Spain. He is author of Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila (2010), and co-editor of Intercultural Exchange in Southeast Asia: History and Society in the Early Modern World (2013).