New and recent publications of interest.
Kira Thurman, Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms (Cornell UP)
Paul Griffiths, Mr. Beethoven (New York Review Books)
Theodor W. Adorno, The New Music: Kranichstein Lectures, trans. Wieland Hoban (polity)
Matthew Aucoin, The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera (FSG)
Charles Hiroshi Garrett and Carol J. Oja, eds., Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century (University of Michigan Press)
Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding, Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from Earth (Zone Books)