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).

These impressive six volumes bring brilliantly into focus the preferred perspectives of the early twenty-first century as applied to the cultural history of music – perspectives alert to racism, gender, colonial guilt, slavery, the marginalization of certain types and ‘classes’ of music, unconscious hierarchies and biases, and cross-cultural exchanges and appropriations … This is a history for a generation that has finally emerged from under the long shadow of Romanticism, that is not afraid to interrogate in depth the West’s self-serving grand narratives of its own past, and one that lives in a world where the ocean of knowledge is no longer construed as a fixed.

• Volume 1: A Cultural History of Western Music in AntiquityEdited by Sean A. Gurd and Pauline A. LeVenIntroduction: Ancient Music, Then and Now, Sean Gurd and Pauline LeVen1. Society: Culture, Cohesion, and Crisis, Lauren Curtis2. Philosophies: Musical Knowing, Tom Phillips3. Politics: Musical Symbols and Civic Rhythms, Sarah Olsen4. Exchange: Music Between Species and Culture, Sean Gurd5. Education: Myth, Ritual, and Socialization, Carolyn Laferrière6. Popular Culture: At the Festival, Hanna Golab7. Performance: Ghosts, Identity, Ontologies, Pauline LeVen8. Technologies: From Minds to Machines, Sean Gurd and Pauline LeVenVolume 2: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle AgesEdited by Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen DeemingIntroduction: Music Defined and Distributed in the Western Middle Ages, Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen Deeming 1. Society: Practicing Music Under Ecclesiastical Dominance, Nils Holger Petersen2. Philosophies: Cosmos and Politics, Harmony and Disharmony, Andrew Hicks and Jonathan Morton3. Politics: Courts, Conquests, and Crusades, Helen Deeming4. Exchange: Liturgical Reform, Pilgrimage, and Saints’ Cults, Rebecca Maloy5. Education: Growing Up In Music, Susan Boynton and Anne Levitsky6. Popular Culture: In Search of Lost Practices, Meghan Quinlan and Joseph W. Mason7. Performance: On Absent Sounds, Notes, and Words, Anna Zayaruznaya8. Technologies: Instruments and Notation, David CatalunyaVolume 3: A Cultural History of Western Music in the RenaissanceEdited by Jeanice Brooks and Richard FreedmanIntroduction: Mobilizing Music, Jeanice Brooks and Richard Freedman1. Society: Music, Musicians, and the Renaissance Social Order, Kirsten Gibson2. Philosophies: The Crisis of Musical Knowledge, Melinda Latour3. Politics: Staging Power, Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard4. Exchange: Conduits, Objects, and Earwitnesses, Evan A. MacCarthy5. Education: Music Among the Challenges of Early Modernity, Daniele V. Filippi6. Popular Culture: Three Cases and Some Observations, Remi Chiu7. Performance: Expression, Emotion, and Identity, Jeanice Brooks8. Technologies: Music, Art, and Techne in the Renaissance, Richard FreedmanVolume 4: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Age of Enlightenment Edited by David R.M. Irving and Estelle JoubertIntroduction: Musicking in the Age of Enlightenment, David R.M. Irving and Estelle Joubert1. Society: Music and Community, Estelle Joubert2. Philosophies: Making Sense of Vibration, Roger Mathew Grant3. Politics: Music and the Law, Rebekah Ahrendt4. Exchange: Musical Transactions Around the World, David R.M. Irving5. Education: Forming Musical Identities, Stephen Rose6. Popular Culture: Let’s Use Scare Quotes, Elisabeth Le Guin7. Performance: On and Off the Page, Geoffrey Burgess8. Technologies: Musical Media of Enlightenment, Rebecca CypessVolume 5: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial AgeEdited by Alexander Rehding and Naomi Waltham-SmithIntroduction: Toppling Romanticism, Naomi Waltham-Smith and Alexander Rehding1. Society: Unthinking Musical History, Benjamin Walton2. Philosophy: The Rise of Materiality, Michael Gallope3. Politics: The Unexceptional Politicking of Labor, Enjoyment, and Obstruction, Naomi Waltham-Smith4. Exchange: The Geopolitics of Ethnographic Recordings, Music, and Sound, Ana M. Ochoa Gautier5. Education: Discipline and Delight, Laura Tunbridge6. Popular Culture: Whose Music? What People?, Adrian Daub7. Performance: Making Music Manifest, Roger Moseley8. Technology: Composing in Sounds, Alexander RehdingVolume 6: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern AgeEdited by William Cheng and Danielle Fosler-LussierIntroduction: The Stories We Hope to Share, William Cheng1. Society: Global Trajectories and the Universal-Particular Paradox, Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang2. Philosophy: Theosophy and Esoteric Musical Modernism, Anna Gawboy3. Politics: Music, Nation States, and the “Small World” in the Long Twentieth Century, Danielle Fosler-Lussier4. Exchange: Modernist Approaches across Oceans and Borders, Marysol Quevedo5. Education: Children’s Music and Visions of Citizenship, Anicia Timberlake6. Popular Culture: Musical Performance as Cultural Activism, Ellie M. Hisama7. Performance: The Changing Norm of Musical Practice in Everyday Life, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton8. Technology: Media, Myths, and Movements, Penny Brandt and Rob Deemer

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).

These impressive six volumes bring brilliantly into focus the preferred perspectives of the early twenty-first century as applied to the cultural history of music – perspectives alert to racism, gender, colonial guilt, slavery, the marginalization of certain types and ‘classes’ of music, unconscious hierarchies and biases, and cross-cultural exchanges and appropriations … This is a history for a generation that has finally emerged from under the long shadow of Romanticism, that is not afraid to interrogate in depth the West’s self-serving grand narratives of its own past, and one that lives in a world where the ocean of knowledge is no longer construed as a fixed.

• Volume 1: A Cultural History of Western Music in AntiquityEdited by Sean A. Gurd and Pauline A. LeVenIntroduction: Ancient Music, Then and Now, Sean Gurd and Pauline LeVen1. Society: Culture, Cohesion, and Crisis, Lauren Curtis2. Philosophies: Musical Knowing, Tom Phillips3. Politics: Musical Symbols and Civic Rhythms, Sarah Olsen4. Exchange: Music Between Species and Culture, Sean Gurd5. Education: Myth, Ritual, and Socialization, Carolyn Laferrière6. Popular Culture: At the Festival, Hanna Golab7. Performance: Ghosts, Identity, Ontologies, Pauline LeVen8. Technologies: From Minds to Machines, Sean Gurd and Pauline LeVenVolume 2: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle AgesEdited by Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen DeemingIntroduction: Music Defined and Distributed in the Western Middle Ages, Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen Deeming 1. Society: Practicing Music Under Ecclesiastical Dominance, Nils Holger Petersen2. Philosophies: Cosmos and Politics, Harmony and Disharmony, Andrew Hicks and Jonathan Morton3. Politics: Courts, Conquests, and Crusades, Helen Deeming4. Exchange: Liturgical Reform, Pilgrimage, and Saints’ Cults, Rebecca Maloy5. Education: Growing Up In Music, Susan Boynton and Anne Levitsky6. Popular Culture: In Search of Lost Practices, Meghan Quinlan and Joseph W. Mason7. Performance: On Absent Sounds, Notes, and Words, Anna Zayaruznaya8. Technologies: Instruments and Notation, David CatalunyaVolume 3: A Cultural History of Western Music in the RenaissanceEdited by Jeanice Brooks and Richard FreedmanIntroduction: Mobilizing Music, Jeanice Brooks and Richard Freedman1. Society: Music, Musicians, and the Renaissance Social Order, Kirsten Gibson2. Philosophies: The Crisis of Musical Knowledge, Melinda Latour3. Politics: Staging Power, Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard4. Exchange: Conduits, Objects, and Earwitnesses, Evan A. MacCarthy5. Education: Music Among the Challenges of Early Modernity, Daniele V. Filippi6. Popular Culture: Three Cases and Some Observations, Remi Chiu7. Performance: Expression, Emotion, and Identity, Jeanice Brooks8. Technologies: Music, Art, and Techne in the Renaissance, Richard FreedmanVolume 4: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Age of Enlightenment Edited by David R.M. Irving and Estelle JoubertIntroduction: Musicking in the Age of Enlightenment, David R.M. Irving and Estelle Joubert1. Society: Music and Community, Estelle Joubert2. Philosophies: Making Sense of Vibration, Roger Mathew Grant3. Politics: Music and the Law, Rebekah Ahrendt4. Exchange: Musical Transactions Around the World, David R.M. Irving5. Education: Forming Musical Identities, Stephen Rose6. Popular Culture: Let’s Use Scare Quotes, Elisabeth Le Guin7. Performance: On and Off the Page, Geoffrey Burgess8. Technologies: Musical Media of Enlightenment, Rebecca CypessVolume 5: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial AgeEdited by Alexander Rehding and Naomi Waltham-SmithIntroduction: Toppling Romanticism, Naomi Waltham-Smith and Alexander Rehding1. Society: Unthinking Musical History, Benjamin Walton2. Philosophy: The Rise of Materiality, Michael Gallope3. Politics: The Unexceptional Politicking of Labor, Enjoyment, and Obstruction, Naomi Waltham-Smith4. Exchange: The Geopolitics of Ethnographic Recordings, Music, and Sound, Ana M. Ochoa Gautier5. Education: Discipline and Delight, Laura Tunbridge6. Popular Culture: Whose Music? What People?, Adrian Daub7. Performance: Making Music Manifest, Roger Moseley8. Technology: Composing in Sounds, Alexander RehdingVolume 6: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern AgeEdited by William Cheng and Danielle Fosler-LussierIntroduction: The Stories We Hope to Share, William Cheng1. Society: Global Trajectories and the Universal-Particular Paradox, Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang2. Philosophy: Theosophy and Esoteric Musical Modernism, Anna Gawboy3. Politics: Music, Nation States, and the “Small World” in the Long Twentieth Century, Danielle Fosler-Lussier4. Exchange: Modernist Approaches across Oceans and Borders, Marysol Quevedo5. Education: Children’s Music and Visions of Citizenship, Anicia Timberlake6. Popular Culture: Musical Performance as Cultural Activism, Ellie M. Hisama7. Performance: The Changing Norm of Musical Practice in Everyday Life, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton8. Technology: Media, Myths, and Movements, Penny Brandt and Rob Deemer