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Music, Criticism & Politics

Editorial Board: Philip Bohlman, Federico Celestini, Michel Duchesneau, Christoph Flamm, Erik Levi, Karen Painter, Gemma Pérez-Zalduondo.

This series publishes major musicological monographs on the relationship between music and politics from the XVII century to the present, as well as multi-authored, multilingual volumes on this topic. The series also focuses on the co-operation of music criticism, pamphlets and the press as a mechanism for the expression of cultural power.

Music and the Politics of Censorship: From the Fascist Era to the Digital Age

edited by James Garratt, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 12), pp. xvi+464, ISBN 978-2-503-61846-3. Contents In relation to music, the word censorship immediately calls...

Transcending Nationalism? Shifts of Perspective in Eastern European Music History

edited by Christoph Flamm, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 57), pp. x+354, IBSN 978-2-503-61864-7. Contents The European music world at the turn of the 19th to...

Music and Resistance: From 1900 to the Present

edited by Igor Contreras Zubillaga and Helena Martín-Nieva, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 (Music, Critics & Politics, 9), pp. XXII+408, ISBN 978-2-503-60291-2. Contents The present volume has been...

Music Criticism 1950-2000

edited by Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Locanto, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 8), pp. xxiv + 420, ISBN 978-2-503-58442-3. Contents This book addresses the...

Music Criticism 1900-1950

edited by Jordi Ballester and German Gan Quesada, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 7), pp. xiv+526, ISBN 978-2-503-58072-2. Contents This monograph focuses on the...

Music and Power in the Baroque Era

edited by Rudolf Rasch, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 6), pp. xii+463, ISBN: 978-2-503-58071-5. Contents Music always functions in a specific environment. And, viewed...

Dance, Ideology and Power in Francoist Spain (1938-1968)

edited by Beatriz Martínez del Fresno and Belén Vega Pichaco, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2017 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 5), pp. XXXVI+568, ISBN 978-2-503-57740-1. Contents The present volume has...

Jehoash Hirshberg, Opera in Search of a Just Ruler for a Unified Italy

Turnhout, Brepols, 2017 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 4), pp. xvi+122, ISBN 978-2-503-57739-5. Contents With the establishment of Il Regno d’Italia in 1861 the heydays of Risorgimento...

Nineteenth-Century Music Criticism

edited by Teresa Cascudo, Turnhout, Brepols, 2017 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 3), pp. xxiv + 526, ISBN 978-2-503-57497-4. Contents   The “long nineteenth century” encompasses what has...

Music and War in Europe from French Revolution to World War I

edited by Étienne Jardin, Turnhout, Brepols, 2016 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 2), pp. xii+468, ISBN 978-2-503-57032-7. Contents 2014, with the commemoration of the centennial of the...

Forthcoming Publications

The Body in Musical Performance: Knowledge, Gesture, and Identity

edited by Marcello Mazzetti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 2). This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of musical embodiment across time, geography, and genre,...

«Sicut in caelo»: Sacred Music in Early Modern Italy

edited by Galliano Ciliberti and Thomas Neal, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Studies on Italian Music History, 21) This volume offers a comprehensive examination of sacred...

Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era

edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 59). The figurative arts — or the arts that transcribe the visible —...

New Releases

Franco Sciannameo, The Journey of Phil Trajetta: From Italian Political Prisoner to Free American...

Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Studies on Italian Music History, 20), pp. xiv+288, ISBN: 978-2-503-61565-3. Contents This new monograph synthesizes and contextualises the details surrounding the life and...

Remapping the Classics: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in Spain during the Long Nineteenth Century

edited by Miguel Ángel Marín and Teresa Cascudo García-Villaraco, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024, (Speculum Musicae, 54), pp. x+356, ISBN: 978-2-503-61557-8. Contents This publication is the first to...

Max Richter: History, Memory and Nostalgia

edited by Delphine Vincent, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Contemporary Composers, 6), pp. xx+354, ISBN 978-2-503-61185-3. Contents A major figure in the world of contemporary music, Max Richter...

Musical Exoticism. The Mediterranean and Beyond in the Long Nineteenth Century

edited by Michael Christoforidis and Ramón Sobrino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Speculum Musicae, 53), pp. xii+402, ISBN 978-2-503-61177-8. Contents The sound image of Otherness has been a...