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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.

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...

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...

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...

Abbonizio, Isabella. Music and Colonialism in Fascist Italy: Identity, Propaganda, and Ethnographic Representation

Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Music, Criticism and Politics, 13), pp. xviii+274, ISBN 978-2-503-62468-6. Contents This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of the role of music within...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Forthcoming Publications

New Perspectives on the 19th-Century Cello

edited by George Kennaway, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae) This book offers a rich variety of approaches to the nineteenth-century cello and cellists. Its range...

The Theatre of Death: Noble Funerals with Music in Early Modern Europe

edited by Grégoire Bauguil, Galliano Ciliberti and Galliano Ciliberti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 63). The public nature of funerals for the noble elite was...

Soundscapes of Histories Entwined: Food and Music 1400-1850

edited by Iain Fenlon and Allen Grieco, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 64). For many, the coincidence of social practices uniting music and food immediately...

The Italian Madrigal in Performance: Architectural Settings, Materiality, and Social Spaces

edited by Stefano Lorenzetti, Elisa Sala, and Livio Ticli, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Musica Incarnata, 4). The volume rethinks the Italian madrigal not as a self-contained...

New Releases

Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era

edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 59), pp. xv+448+16 color ills., ISBN 978-2-503-62184-5. Contents The figurative arts — or the...

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

edited by Marcello Mazzetti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 2),pp. xx+276, ISBN 978-2-503-62192-0. Contents This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of musical embodiment across time,...

Perspectives on the Music of György Kurtág: Performance, Language and Memory

Edited by Rachel Beckles Willson and Gergely Fazekas, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Contemporary Composers, 7), pp. xii+252, ISBN 978-2-503-61866-1.           Contents The present volume has been made possibile...

Embodied Musicology: Ways that Embodiment Shapes Performance and Reception

edited by Arnie Cox, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 1), ISBN 978-2-503-62191-3, pp. xvi+378. Contents For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine,...