Seduction and Subversion: The Feminist Strategies of Siouxsie and the Banshees

13 December 2017 Routledge, 2005), 112-120.). Siouxsie and the Banshees’s use of Gothicism has been discussed at length elsewhere,4See Charles Mueller “Gothicism and English Goth Music: Notes on the Repertoire.” Gothic Studies. 14/2 November 2012. and that aspect of...

At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz. Darren Mueller. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024

11 April 2025 At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz. Darren Mueller. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. 448 pp. 20 illustrations. ISBN: 9781478030072. $31.95. (Paperback) Books about jazz records generally fall into two...

Jeff Beck: The Quintessential Postmodern Virtuoso Meets Baudrillard’s Racing Driver and his Double

05 June 2013 Virtue or Virtuosity, 53. 42Wheeler, Stratocaster Chronicles, 152-61. 43Baudrillard, Screened Out, 170. authors: Charles Mueller author_ids: 1587 authors: Charles Mueller author_ids: 1587

Robert Schumann's Album for the Young and the Coming of Age of Nineteenth-Century Piano Pedagogy

01 October 2001 In 1843, Robert Schumann noted that his highly original if slightly bizarre piano cycles of the 1830s had not endeared him to the public or to his publishers. He regretfully conceded that the financial responsibilities of supporting a wife and family...

Claude Debussy's Gamelan

27 August 2012 Introduction The year 1889 marked the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution and the nation celebrated with the Paris Exposition Universelle, an extraordinary World's Fair. The importance of the event was emphasized by the construction of the...

Julius Weiss: Scott Joplin's First Piano Teacher

01 October 1979 In writing musical biographies and in tracing the influence of one musical generation upon another, musicologists have traditionally spent considerable time and effort to investigate teacher-student relationships. Until recently this seems to have been...

Mozart's Real Joke

01 October 1986 Remembering Walter Gerboth, who had a lively interest in musical humor. Twenty-five years ago, as Music Librarian of Brooklyn College, he took pains to impress this raw beginner with the ideals of the academic profession of music. Trying to explain a...