Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era

You really don't need a review to tell you if you're going to enjoy this book, which is a well-written socialist polemic about the way that contemporary classical music interacts with neoliberal capitalism. If that description interests you, then pick up this book. Ritchey dissects complex theoretical topics from other writers and presents them in an easily digestible way. The only real reason I didn't give it five stars: the book is rigidly ideological to the point of being occasionally tiresome. Also, there are a couple of distracting errors that shouldn't have made it past an editor (Nancy Pelosi is a member of the House of Representatives, not the Senate, for instance). Still, if you're interested in a genuine left perspective on the current state of classical music, you'd be hard-pressed to find better than this book.