Description: The first comprehensive history of western music in the Modern Age
Brief description: William Cheng is Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College. He is author of Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (OUP 2014), Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (University of Michigan Press, 2016). His forthcoming books include Why Listening to Beethoven Makes Me Feel So Respectable (and Other Vices of Musical Judgment) (OUP), Touching Pitch: Dirt, Debt, Color (University of Michigan Press) and, as co-editor, Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology (OUP).