Routledge Music Handbooks
About the Book Series
Routledge Music Handbooks are comprehensive, must-have surveys of a core sub-discipline that address landmarks in the field, but also map out the emerging critical terrain and are aimed at the library market. Handbooks introduce fundamental topics and ideas, delineate the diversity and complexity of the subject, and stimulate dialogue among scholars and students approaching the topic from divergent backgrounds. Handbooks should define the current state of theory and research in the field and create a foundation for future scholarship and study.
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The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking the History of Technology-Based Music
1st Edition
Edited
By Jøran Rudi, Monty Adkins
December 29, 2025
This Handbook explores and critiques a new sonic reality — one which unearths new narratives that chart embryonic practices from the early twentieth century that have developed in parallel with accepted narratives of electronic music. Today’s musical and artistic practices within technology-based ...
The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production
1st Edition
Edited
By Lori Burns, Ciro Scotto
June 12, 2025
The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production examines metal music composition as a distinct practice that combines a complex array of formal musical, expressive, and technological elements. Reaching beyond the limitations of applying ...
The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Wolfgang Gratzer, Nils Grosch, Ulrike Präger, Susanne Scheiblhofer
May 27, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies is a progressive, transdisciplinary paradigm-shifting core text for music and migration studies. Conceptualized as a comprehensive methodological and theoretical guide, it foregrounds the mobile potentials of music and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Anderton, Lori Burns
February 26, 2025
This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes. The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres and their literary connections: from ancient times to the ...
The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Miranda
September 12, 2024
The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music provides a significant contribution to the research and history of Spanish film music, exploring the interdependence and ways in which discourses of sound and vision are constructed dialogically in Spanish cinema, with contributions from leading ...
The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Baker
July 10, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region. The vibrant growth of this subject area since the 1990s has been intertwined with the ...
The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Hart, Simon A. Morrison
May 27, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music, as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess, evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of one ...
The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhiannon Mathias
September 25, 2023
The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music presents a unique collection of core research by academics and music practitioners from around the world, engaging with an extraordinarily wide range of topics on women’s contributions to Western and Eastern art music, popular music, world music, ...
The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Wright, Geir Johansen, Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos, Patrick Schmidt
January 09, 2023
The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education is a comprehensive, authoritative and state-of-the-art review of current research in the field. The opening introduction orients the reader to the field, highlights recent developments, and draws together concepts and research methods to be ...
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought
1st Edition
By Jonathan Impett
December 18, 2020
Of the post-war, post-serialist generation of European composers, it was Luigi Nono who succeeded not only in identifying and addressing aesthetic and technical questions of his time, but in showing a way ahead to a new condition of music in the twenty-first century. His music has found a ...