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	Burma's Pop Music Industry Creators, Distrubtors, Censors Heather MacLachlan Drawing on extensive fieldword, explores the contemporary pop music scene in this little understood Southeast Asian country.
	Gunther Schuller A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty Gunther Schuller The autobiography of composer and conductor Gunther Schuller and a recounting of the American musical scene through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
	Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier Christopher Fifield Revised enlarged paperback edition to mark the centenary of her birth in 1912.
	The John Ireland Companion Edited by Lewis Foreman Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his death, this book presents new articles by leading authorities on John Ireland and his music, together with transcriptions of his broadcast talks and of interviews with the composer.
	Liszt's Transcultural Modernism and the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition Shay Loya The first thorough study of Liszt's use of the musical style associated with the Hungarian Roma ("Gypsies") in his renowned Hungarian Rhapsodies and less overtly Hungarian works.
	György Ligeti Of Foreign Lands & Strange Sounds Edited by Louise Duchesneau & Wolfgang Marx The combination of new insights into Ligeti by people who knew him with new analytical approaches will make this a core publication not only for Ligeti scholars, but also for readers interested in post-war music history and in Hungarian culture.
	Richard Wagner's Women Eva Rieger A well-researched and exhaustive analysis of the role of women in Wagner's operas.
	Jean Sibelius Tomi Mäkelä Mäkelä's study brings together German, Nordic and Anglo-American work on Sibelius, and synthesizes these various strands of Sibelius reception into a single coherent critical narrative. Its primary readership will be academic Sibelius scholars, but it is also of interest to writers working on twentieth-century music, historians of nationalism, as well a cultural geographers working on landscape and national identity.
	The Correspondence of Jean Sibelius and Rosa Newmarch, 1906-1939 Edited by Philip Ross Bullock This edition provides the full set of letters in English translation. It will be complemented by making the letters available online in their original language.
	Verdi in America Oberto through Rigoletto George W. Martin A renowned Verdi authority offers here the often-astounding first history of how Verdi's early operas-including one of his great masterpieces, Rigoletto-made their way into America's musical life.
	The Musical Salvationist The World of Richard Slater (1854-1939), 'Father of Salvation Army Music' Gordon Cox The Musical Salvationist frames the Salvation Army's contribution to British musical life through the life story of composer, arranger and musical editor Richard Slater (1854-1939), popularly known as the 'Father of Salvation Army Music', drawing on his detailed hand-written diaries.
	Hans Keller and Internment The Development of an Emigre Musician Alison Garnham, Edited by Christopher Wintle The story of influentiual music critic, Hans Keller's months in British internment camps in 1940 and its effect on his intellectual development.
	Hans Keller and Internment in paperback The Development of an Emigre Musician Alison Garnham, Edited by Christopher Wintle The story of influentiual music critic, Hans Keller's months in British internment camps in 1940 and its effect on his intellectual development.