* This bibliography is not meant to be an exhaustive list of relevant works. If you would like to add your or other work(s) to this list, please e-mail globalmusichistory.ams@gmail.com.
Bibliography – Music Studies
Araci, Emre. “Giuseppe Donizetti at the Ottoman Court: A Levantine Life.” The Musical Times 143, no. 1880 (Autumn 2002): 49–56.
———–. “The Turkish Music Reform: From Late Ottoman Times to the Early Republic.” In Turkey’s Engagement with Modernity: Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century, edited by Celia Kerslake, Kerem Öktem, and Philip Robins, 336–45. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Agawu, Kofi. Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. New York and London: Routledge, 2003.
Averill, Gage. Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Quartet. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Barendregt, Bart, and Els Bogaerts, eds. Recollecting Resonances: Indonesian-Dutch Musical Encounters. Boston: Brill, 2014.
Baker, Geoffrey. Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
———–, and Tess Knighton, eds. Music and Urban Society in Colonial Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Beckles Willson, Rachel. Orientalism and Musical Mission: Palestine and the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Bloechl, Olivia. Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
———–. “Wendat Song and Carnival Noise in the Jesuit Relations.” In Native Acts: Indian Performance in Early North America, edited by Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke, 117–44. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
———–. “Race, Empire, and Early Music.” In Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship, edited by Olivia Bloechl, Melanie Lowe, and Jeffrey Kallberg, 77–107. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
———–. “Music in the Early Colonial World.” In The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music, edited by Iain Fenlon and Richard Wistreich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
———–. “The Catholic Mission to Japan, 1549–1614.” In Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music, edited by Iain Fenlon and Richard Wistreich. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Bohlman, Philip V., ed. The Cambridge History of World Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Brook, Barry S., and David Bain, “Music in the Life of Man: Theoretical and Practical Foundations for a World History.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 16 (1984): 155–65.
Byl, Julia. Antiphonal Histories: Resonant Pasts in the Toba Batak Musical Present. Hartford: Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
———–, and Jim Sykes. “Ethnomusicology and the Indian Ocean: On the Politics of Area Studies.” Ethnomusicology 64, no. 3 (2020): 394–421.
Carr, James Revell. Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Castro, Christi-Anne. Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Chang, Hyun Kyong Hannah. “Transcending the Past: Singing and the Lingering Cold War in the South Korean Christian Diaspora.” Twentieth-Century Music 18, no. 3 (2021): 447–67.
———–. “Singing and Praying among Korean Christian Converts (1896-1915): A Trans-Pacific Genealogy of the Modern Korean Voice.” In The Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies, edited by Nina Eidsheim and Katherine Meizel, 457–74. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Coelho, Victor Anand. “Music in New Worlds.” In The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music, edited by Tim Carter and John Butt, 88–110. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Eyerly, Sarah Justina. Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania. Indiana University Press, 2020.
Fosler-Lussier, Danielle. Music in America’s Cold War Diplomacy. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.
———–. Music on the Move. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
———–. “Music Pushed, Music Pulled: Cultural Diplomacy, Globalization, and Imperialism.” Diplomatic History 36, no. 1 (2012): 53–64.
Gill, Denise. Melancholic Modalities: Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Head, Matthew. “Haydn’s Exoticisms: Difference and the Enlightenment.” In The Cambridge Companion to Haydn, edited by Caryl Clark, 77–92. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Hijleh, Mark. Towards a Global Music Theory: Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music Across Human Cultures. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
———–. Towards a Global Music History: Intercultural Convergence, Fusion, and Transformation in the Human Musical Story. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Hu, Zhuqing (Lester) S. “Chinese Ears, Delicate or Dull? Toward a Decolonial Comparativism.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 74, no. 3 (2021): 501–569.
Irving, David R. M. Colonial Counterpoint. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
———–. “Comparative Organography in Early Modern Empires.” Music & Letters 90, no. 3 (2009): 372–98.
———–. “The Dissemination and Use of European Music Books in Early Modern Asia.” Early Music History 28 (2009): 39–59.
———–. “Rethinking Early Modern ‘Western Art Music’: A Global History Manifesto.” Musicological Brainfood 3.1 (2019): <https://brainfood.musicology.org/rethinking-early-modern-western-art-music/>.
———–. “Hearing Other Cities: The Role of Seaborne Empires and Colonial Emporia in Early Modern Global Music History.” In Hearing the City in Early Modern Europe, edited by Tess Knighton and Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, 69–84. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018.
———–. “Ancient Greeks, World Music, and Early Modern Constructions of Western European Identity.” In Studies on a Global History of Music: A Balzan Musicology Project, edited by Reinhard Strohm, 21–41. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.
———–. “Cosmopolitanism and Music in the Early Modern Lusophone World.” In Cosmopolitanism in the Portuguese-speaking World, edited by Francisco Bethencourt, 111–31. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
———–. “Music in Global Jesuit Missions, 1540–1773.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits, edited by Ines G. Zupanov, 598–634. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
———–. “Music and Empire.” In The Encyclopedia of Empire, edited by John MacKenzie, Nigel Dalziel, Michael Charney, and Nick Doumanis. Chichester, UK and Hoboken, US: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
Jaji, Tsitsi Ella. Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Johnson, Stephen. “Hybrid in Form, Socialist in Content: the Formal Politics of Chŏlga in the North Korean Revolutionary Opera Sea of Blood.” Twentieth-Century Music 18, no. 3 (2021): 419–45.
Kartomi, Margaret J., and Stephen Blum, eds. Music-Cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions. Basel: Gordon and Breach, 1994.
Kuss, Malena, ed. Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.
Laborde, Denis. “Écrire une histoire universelle de la musique?” In Désirs d’histoire, edited by Denis Laborde, 107–30. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009.
Liao, Yvonne. “‘Die gute Unterhaltungsmusik’: Landscape, Refugee Cafés, and Sounds of Little Vienna in Wartime Shanghai.” The Musical Quarterly 98, no. 4 (2016): 350–94.
———–. “Empires in Rivalry: Opera Concerts and Foreign Territoriality in Shanghai, 1930–1945.” In Operatic Geographies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House, edited by Suzanne Aspden, 148–61. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
———–. “Post/Colonial Bach.” In Rethinking Bach, edited by Bettina Varwig, 59–76. New York: University of Oxford Press, 2021.
Liu, Bess Xintong. “‘The Timpani Beats Just Hit on My Heart!’ Music, Memory, and Diplomacy in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 1973 China Tour.” Twentieth-Century Music 18, no. 3 (2021): 395–418.
Lubinski, Christina, and Andreas Steen. “Traveling Entrepreneurs, Traveling Sounds: The Early Gramophone Business in India and China.” Itinerario 41, no. 2 (2017): 275–303.
Mann, Kristin Dutcher. The Power of Song and Dance in the Mission Communities of Northern New Spain, 1590–1810. Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2010.
McCollum, Jonathan, and David G. Hebert, eds. Theory & Method in Historical Ethnomusicology. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.
McCorkle, Brooke. “Was ist Japanisch?: Wagnerism and Dreams of Nationhood in Modern Japan.” In Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor, edited by Neil Gregor and Tom Irvine, 169–93. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019.
———–. “Twilight of an Empire: Staging Wagner in Wartime Tokyo.” In Music Theater as Global Culture: Wagner’s Legacy Today, edited by Anno Mungen, Nicholas Vazsonyi, Julie Hubbert, Ivana Rentsch, and Arne Stollberg, 51–64. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017.
———–. “Akira Ifukube.” Oxford Bibliographies in Music, edited by Bruce Gustafson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Online.
Moreda Rodriguez, Eva. “Transatlantic Networks in the Correspondence of Two Exiled Spanish Musicians, Julián Bautista and Adolfo Salazar.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 140, no. 1 (2015): 93–119.
Nettl, Bruno. “Some Aspects of the History of World Music in the Twentieth Century.” Ethnomusicology 22, no. 1 (1978): 12–36.
———–. The Western Impact on World Music: Change, Adaptation, and Survival. New York: Schirmer, 1985.
Ochoa Gautier, Ana María. Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
O’Connell, John Morgan. “Alabanda: Brass Bands and Musical Methods in Turkey.” In Giuseppe Donizetti Pasha: Musical and Historical Trajectories between Italy and Turkey, edited by Federico Spinetti, 19–37. Bergamo: Fondazione Donizetti, Sagge Monografie 7, 2010.
Olwage, Grant. “John Knox Bokwe, Colonial Composer: Tales about Race and Music.” Journal of the Royal Music Association 131, no. 1 (2006): 1–37.
Park, Hye-jung. “Musical Entanglements: Ely Haimowitz and Orchestral Music under the US Army Military Government in Korea, 1945-1948.” Journal of the Society for American Music 15, no. 1 (2021): 1–29.
Pasler, Jann. “The Utility of Musical Instruments in the Racial and Colonial Agendas of Late Nineteenth-Century France.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 129, no. 1 (2004): 24–76.
Powers, David M. From Plantation to Paradise? Cultural Politics and Musical Theatre in French Slave Colonies, 1764–1789. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014.
Quevedo, Marysol. “Experimental Music and the Avant-garde in Post-1959 Cuba: Revolutionary Music for the Revolution.” In Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America, edited by Alejandro Madrid, Eduardo Herrera, and Ana Alonso-Minutti, 251–78. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
———–. “Music of Puerto Rico.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Music, edited by Kate van Orden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
———–. “Classical Music in Cuba.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Music, edited by Bruce Gustafson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Rao, Nancy Yunhwa. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017.
Robertson, Carol E., ed. Musical Repercussions of 1492: Encounters in Text and Performance. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1992.
Rosenberg, Ruth E. Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in Nineteenth-Century France: Musical Apprehensions. New York and London: Routledge, 2014.
Schofield, Katherine Butler. “Reviving the Golden Age Again: ‘Classicization,’ Hindustani Music, and the Mughals.” Ethnomusicology 54, no. 3 (2010): 484–517.
Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. “‘Historical Ethnomusicology’: Reconstructing Falasha Liturgical History.” Ethnomusicology 24, no. 2 (1980): 233–58.
Solis, Gabriel. “The Black Pacific: Music and Racialization in Papua New Guinea and Australia.” Critical Sociology 41, no. 2 (2014): 1–16.
———–. “Transpacific Excursions.” In This Thing Called Music: Essays in Honor of Bruno Nettl, edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine and Philip V. Bohlman, 354–65. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Strohm, Reinhard, ed. Studies on a Global History of Music: A Balzan Musicology Project. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Sumarsam. Javanese Gamelan and the West. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2013.
Takao, Makoto Harris. “‘In Their Own Way’: Contrafactal Practices in Japanese Christian Communities during the 16th Century.” Early Music 47, no. 2 (2019): 183–198.
Thomas, Susan. “Music, Conquest, and Colonialism.” In Musics of Latin America, edited by Robin Moore, 25–50. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012.
Tomlinson, Gary. “Musicology, Anthropology, History.” Il Saggiatore musicale 8, no. 1 (2001): 21–37.
———–. The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Walton, Benjamin. “Italian Operatic Fantasies in Latin America.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies 17, no. 4 (2012): 460–71.
Wang, Grace. Soundscapes of Asian America: Navigating Race Through Musical Performance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.
Weidman, Amanda J. Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
Wilbourne, Emily, and Suzanne G. Cusick, eds. Acoustemologies in Contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2021.
Woodfield, Ian. English Musicians in the Age of Exploration. New York: Pendragon Press, 1995.
Yang, Hon-Lun Helan. “Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism, and Nationalism: the Performativity of Western Music Endeavours in Interwar Shanghai.” Twentieth-Century Music 18, no. 3 (2021): 363–93.
Yang, Serena. “Against ‘John Cage Shock’: Rethinking John Cage and the Post-war Avant-garde in Japan.” Twentieth-Century Music 18, no. 3 (2021): 341–62.
Bibliography – Approaches, Historiography, Theory
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Conrad, Sebastian. What is Global History? Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016.
Françoise, Lionnet, and Shu-mei Shih, eds. Minor Transnationalism. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. London: Verso, 1993.
Loomba, Ania. “Periodization, Race, and Global Contact.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37, no. 3 (2007): 595–620.
Northrop, Douglas, ed. A Companion to World History. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2012.
Pollock, Sheldon. “Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History.” Public Culture 12, no. 3 (2000): 591–625.
Quijano, Anibal. “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America.” Nepantla: Views from South 1, no. 3 (2000): 533–80.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London: Zed, 1999.