The following twenty-two books were added to the AMS New Books in Musicology RSS feed in August 2016. See the listings at the AMS web site for links to more details: www.ams-net.org/feeds/newbooks/ Thinking of buying a book? A number of presses offer AMS member discounts. See www.ams-net.org/members/member-discounts.php. If you'd like to add a book to the list that isn't there yet, send the citation to newbooks -at- ams-net.org. Mark Howard, Decoding Rameau: Music as the Sovereign Science Libreria musicale italiana, 2016. 653 pp. €40. ISBN: 9788870968460. Matthew P. Unger, Sound, Symbol, Sociality: The Aesthetic Experience of Extreme Metal Music Palgrave Pivot, 2016. 133 pp. $67.50. ISBN: 9781137478344. Gearoid O hAllmhurain, Flowing Tides: History and Memory in an Irish Soundscape Oxford University Press, 2016. 344 pp. $45. ISBN: 9780199380084. Charles Youmans, Mahler and Strauss: In Dialogue Indiana University Press, 2016. 312 pp. $42. ISBN: 9780253021595. Sandra Mangsen, Songs without Words: Keyboard Arrangements of Vocal Music in England, 1560–1760 Boydell and Brewer, 2016. 282 pp. $99. ISBN: 9781580465496. Nathaniel G. Lew, Tonic to the Nation: Making English Music in the Festival of Britain Routledge, 2016. 248 pp. $149.95. ISBN: 9781472458230. Michael Hampe, The Crafty Art of Opera: For those who make it, love it or hate it Translated by Chris Walton. Boydell and Brewer, 2016. 200 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 9781783270972. Dionysios Politis et al., eds., Digital Tools for Computer Music Production and Distribution IGI Global, 2016. 291 pp. $144. ISBN: 9781522502647. Nancy S. Love, Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy State University of New York Press, 2016. 268 pp. $85. ISBN: 9781438462035. Hilda Meldrum Brown, The Quest for the Gesamtkunstwerk and Richard Wagner Oxford University Press, 2016. 240 pp. $90. ISBN: 9780199325436. Branden Wayne Joseph, Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 232 pp. $120/$29.95. ISBN: 9781501306402. Kara Anne Gardner, Agnes de Mille: Telling Stories in Broadway Dance Oxford University Press, 2016. 264 pp. $35. ISBN: 9780199733682. John Wriggle, Blue Rhythm Fantasy: Big Band Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era University of Illinois Press, 2016. 320 pp. $95/$30. ISBN: 9780252082269. Kendra Preston Leonard, Music for Silent Film: A Guide to North American Resources A-R Editions, 2016. 277 pp. $90. ISBN: 9780895798350. Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton, eds., Rethinking Schubert Oxford University Press, 2016. 528 pp. $74. ISBN: 9780190200107. Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton, eds., Schubert’s Late Music: History, Theory, Style Cambridge University Press, 2016. 458 pp. $120. ISBN: 9781107111295. Pamela M. Potter, Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts University of California Press, 2016. 408 pp. $65. ISBN: 9780520282346. William Cheng, Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good University of Michigan Press, 2016. 180 pp. $60/$24.95. ISBN: 9780472073252. Free online edition Katherine Williams, Rufus Wainwright Equinox, 2016. 142 pp. $39.95/$24.95. ISBN: 9781845532932. Robert Carl and Jonathan D. Kramer, Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening Bloomsbury, 2016. 400 pp. $120/34.95. ISBN: 9781501306020. David Brackett, Categorizing Sound: Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music University of California Press, 2016. 376 pp. $85. ISBN: 9780520248717. Diane Thome, Palaces of Memory: American Composer Diane Thome on Her Life and Music Friesen Press, 2016. 108 pp. $22.99/$11.99. ISBN: 9781460284292. _______________________________________________ AMS-Announce mailing list and bulletin board: READ THE GUIDELINES prior to submitting a post: http://www.ams-net.org/announce.php TO SEE THE ARCHIVED POSTS: http://listserv.unl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=AMS-ANNOUNCE TO UNSUBSCRIBE, or switch to/from Digest mode: log in to http://listserv.unl.edu and edit your subscription.