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• Die Rationalen und Soziologischen Grundlagen der Musik (in German; Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1921), by Max Weber, contrib. by Theodor Kroyer
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2009), ed. by Karin Bijsterveld and José van Dijck (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Sonic Modernities in the Malay World: A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s) (Leiden: Brill, 2014), ed. by Bart Barendregt (JSTOR ebook)

• Sonic Modernities in the Malay World: A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s) (Leiden: Brill, 2014), ed. by Bart Barendregt (JSTOR ebook)

• Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Eric Zolov (HTML at UC Press)

• Musical ImagiNation: U.S-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom (New York: NYU Press, 2010), by Maria Elena Cepeda (JSTOR ebook)

• Classical Music: Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Michael Brim Beckerman and Paul A. Boghossian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The works of Charles Lamb (Widdleton, 1878), by Charles Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2019), by Bill Beuttler
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR
  • HTML at Project MUSE

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Acoustemologies in Contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Emily Wilbourne and Suzanne G. Cusick (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Music on the Move (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2020), by Danielle Fosler-Lussier (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Susan Hallam and Evangelos Himonides (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Individuum und gemeinschaft in der kultur-organisation des vereins. (E. Diederichs, 1913), by Hans Staudinger and Fritz Seidel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public relations in music education, a study. (Exposition Press, 1954), by Floyd Freeman Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'influence morale et sociale de la musique. (La Renaissance d'Occident, 1927), by A R. Dupont (page images at HathiTrust)
• La influencia de la música en la cultura (Impr. Boliviana, 1929), by Luis Pizarro (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la musique et de la peinture : de leurs effets sur les hommes en général et de leur influence sur les moeurs (J. Pogliani, 1833), by Laurent Ravoire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istorii︠a︡ muzyki v svi︠a︡zi s istorieĭ obshchestvennogo razvitii︠a︡ : opyt marksistskogo postroenii︠a︡ istorii muzyki (Izdanie kievskogo muzykalʹnogo predprii︠a︡tii︠a︡, 1927), by S. M. Chemodanov (page images at HathiTrust)
• The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019., 2019), by Nina Sun Eidsheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music in the city, a sociological survey of musical facilities and activities in Pueblo, Colorado. (Pueblo, 1944), by Max Kaplan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A musick-lector, or, The art of musick (that is so much vindicated in Christendome) discoursed of by way of dialogue between three men of several judgments the one a musician and master of that art, and zealous for the Church of England ..., the other a Baptist ..., the other a Quaker (so called) ... / written by Solomon Eccles. (London : [s.n.], 1667), by Solomon Eccles (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Transforming Vòdún: Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023), by Sarah Politz (JSTOR ebook)

• Transforming Vòdún: Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023), by Sarah Politz (JSTOR ebook)

• Rethinking Social Action Through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín's Music Schools (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Geoffrey Baker (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Joining In: An Investigation into Participatory Music (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, c1997), by Anthony Everitt (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)

• Sounding the Indian Ocean: Musical Circulations in the Afro-Asiatic Seascape (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023), by Jim Sykes and Julia Suzanne Byl (JSTOR ebook)

• The Sounds of Latinidad: Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City (New York: NYU Press, 2015), by Samuel K. Byrd (JSTOR ebook)

• Music and Politics (2007-) (full serial archives)

• Cape Town Harmonies: Memory, Humour and Resilience (Cape Town, South Africa: African Minds, 2017), by Armelle Gaulier and Denis Martin (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019., 2019), by Nina Sun Eidsheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019), by Nina Sun Eidsheim (JSTOR ebook)

• Music as a human need; a plea for free national instruction in music. (New York, 1914), by Alma Webster Hall Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Department of Science, Art and Literature : hearings before the Committee on Patents, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, first session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1935), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music in war plants (War Production Drive Headquarters, War Production Board, 1947), by Wheeler Beckett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music as a human need: A plea for free national instruction in music, by Alma Webster Hall Powell (Gutenberg ebook)

• Die Hausmusik. In ihrer Organisation und kulturgeschichtlichen Bedeutung (R. Oppenheim, 1884), by August Reissmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friends and fiddlers (Little, Brown, and company, 1935), by Catherine Drinker Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Intime Musik (Bard Marquardt et co., 1904), by Oskar Bie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music in the house. (Macmillan and co., 1878), by John Hullah (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music in the house. (Porter & Coates, 1877), by John Hullah (page images at HathiTrust)

• Music in war plants. (War production drive headquarters, War production board, 1943), by Wheeler Beckett and United States War Production Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and sound systems in industry. (McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1945), by Barbara Elna Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to industrial sound. (Office of production research and development of the War production board, 1944), by Richmond L Cardinell, Glenn C. Henry, and United States. War Production Board. Office of Production Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial bands and orchestras, issued as a service to members. ([Chicago, 1953), by National Industrial Recreation Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Music in industry ... ([American Society of composers, authors and Publishers], 1944), by Richmond L. Cardinell and Authors and Publishers American Society of Composers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Music in war plants (War Production Drive Headquarters, War Production Board, 1947), by Wheeler Beckett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Francesca T. Royster (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection (New York: NYU Press, 2018), by Nancy K. Baym (JSTOR ebook)

• The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019., 2019), by Nina Sun Eidsheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019), by Nina Sun Eidsheim (JSTOR ebook)

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