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Level Up Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music

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Monstrosity, Identity and Music Mediating Uncanny Creatures from Frankenstein to Videogames — Alexis Luko

Monstrosity, Identity and Music Mediating Uncanny Creatures from Frankenstein to Videogames

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Popular Musicology and Identity Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins — Kai Arne Hansen

Popular Musicology and Identity Essays in Honour of Stan Hawkins

Kai Arne Hansen

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The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper A Fans’ Perspective

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Hollywood Harmony Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema — Frank Lehman

Hollywood Harmony Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema

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Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West — Christian Utz

Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West

Themes: Instruction & Study • Popular Culture • Music

Disability and Music Performance — Alejandro Alberto Téllez Vargas

Disability and Music Performance

Alejandro Alberto Téllez Vargas

Themes: Theory • Instruction & Study • Music

Songs of Earth Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music — Anna Lomax Wood

Songs of Earth Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music

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Sociology for Music Teachers Practical Applications — Hildegard C. Froehlich

Sociology for Music Teachers Practical Applications

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Edvard Grieg and His Songs — Sandra Jarrett

Edvard Grieg and His Songs

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God Gave Rock and Roll to You A History of Contemporary Christian Music — Leah Payne

God Gave Rock and Roll to You A History of Contemporary Christian Music

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Beethoven’s Anvil Music in Mind and Culture — William Benzon

Beethoven’s Anvil Music in Mind and Culture

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Bangkok is Ringing Sound, Protest, and Constraint — Ben Tausig

Bangkok is Ringing Sound, Protest, and Constraint

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Music and Its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings — Amnon Shiloah

Music and Its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings

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Dislocated Memories Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture — Tina Frühauf

Dislocated Memories Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture

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This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with 20th-Century Microtonal Notation by Gardner Read. Connected by Theory, Instruction & Study, Popular Culture. Authors featured include Shawn VanCour, Howard Goodall, Philip Brett, Ewa Mazierska, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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