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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 Institutions in Fascist Italy

edited by Roberto Illiano and Luca Lévi Sala, Turmhout, Brepols, 2024 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 10), pp. xxx+416, ISBN 978-2-503-61184-6. Contents In the 1920s and 1930s,...

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 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...

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...

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...

Luigi Dallapiccola between Politics, Text and Musical Thought: With an Appendix of New Sources

edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 11), pp. xxviii+354, 56 color ills, ISBN 978-2-503-61567-7. Contents Luigi Dallapiccola represents one of the...

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...

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...

Transcending Nationalism? Shifts of Perspective in Eastern European Music History

edited by Christoph Flamm, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 57) The European music world at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century was...

Protest Music in the Twentieth Century

edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2015 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 1), pp. xiv+418, isbn 978-2-503-56628-3. Contents The subject of this monograph is protest music and...

Forthcoming Publications

Embodied Musicology: Ways that Embodiment Shapes Performance and Reception

edited by Arnie Cox, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 1). For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine, music has been or...

Embodiment in Music and Performance: Practices, Meanings, Histories

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 Figuratives 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 —...

Transcending Nationalism? Shifts of Perspective in Eastern European Music History

edited by Christoph Flamm, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 57) The European music world at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century was...

New Releases

Musical Networks across Borders. The Multiplicity of Musical Creation

edited by Bella Brover-Lubovsky and Irit Youngerman, Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2025 (Ad Parnassum Studies, 15), pp. 456, ISBN: 978-88-8109-546-9. Contents Essays by: Lawrence F. Bernstein,...

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...

Journal of Music Criticism 8 (2024)

Registered Tribunale di Lucca - RG n. 1323/2017 | ISSN 2532-9995 | © Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini. All rights reserved. Discussing (Neo)Classicism...

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...