Founded in 1989 as a unique collaboration between the University of Rochester and Boydell & Brewer, the University of Rochester Press publishes books of high intellectual merit that reflect selected strengths of the university and contribute to scholarly dialogue in specific subject areas.
Our mission is the dissemination of scholarship to the academic community and to thoughtful general readers, particularly in the fields of musicology and music theory, African studies, European history, and the history of medicine.
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Anton Bruckner and the Reception of His Music
Black Woman on Board
A Doctor’s Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust
Mozart, Genius, and the Possibilities of Art
Transactional Culture in Colonial Dakar, 1902-44
Narrative and Robert Schumann’s Songs
Law and the Protection of Democracy
Autobiographical Recollections of Charles-Marie Widor
Clément Janequin
A Romantic Symphony
The Global Ethiopian Diaspora
Bands in American Musical History
Verdi and the Art of Italian Opera
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Eastman Studies in Music
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Rochester Studies in Medical History
Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe
Gender and Race in American History
Eastman/Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology
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