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Before the Singing
Structuring Children's Choirs for Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
All children must have an opportunity to share the joy of choral music participation - whether in school, church, or community choirs. What happens before the singing begins, is critical to supporting, sustaining, and nurturing choirs to give every child the opportunity to experience the wonder of...
The Young Musician's Survival Guide
Tips from Teens and Pros
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Learning to play an instrument can be fun and, at times, frustrating. This lively, accessible book helps young people cope with the difficulties involved in learning a new instrument and remaining dedicated to playing and practicing. Teens from renowned music programs - including the Juilliard School's...
by Renee Levine Packer
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
This Life of Sounds portrays an important and previously unexplored corner of the history of new music in America: the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in the State University of New York at Buffalo. Composers Lukas Foss (the Center's founder), Lejaren Hiller, and Morton Feldman were the...
The Russian Violin School
The Legacy of Yuri Yankelevich
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The Russian school of violin playing produced many of the twentieth century's leading violinists - from the famed disciples of Leopold Auer such as Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, and Mischa Elman to masters of the Soviet years such as David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan. Though descendants of this school...
The Art of Tonal Analysis
Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt in the classroom. At the Mannes College of Music,...
Shades of Freedom
Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1998
Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania,...
by R. B. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." It is in this simple epitaph that R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic...
Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens
A History of Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life." So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has some Athenians declare, in explanation of why they would never betray their fellow Greeks to the enemy, the "barbarian"...
Mothers of Massive Resistance
White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation...
The Politics of Truth
Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
C. Wright Mills was a radical public intellectual, a tough-talking, motorcycle-riding anarchist from Texas who taught sociology at Columbia University. Mills's three most influential books--The Power Elite, White Collar, and The Sociological Imagination--were originally published by OUP and are considered...
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing...
To Make Our World Anew
Volume I: A History of African Americans to 1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and...
by Theda Skocpol, Vanessa Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This revised edition features a new afterword, updated through the 2016 election. On February 19, 2009, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli delivered a dramatic rant against Obama administration programs to shore up the plunging housing market. Invoking the Founding Fathers and ridiculing "losers"...
There's No Such Thing As Free Speech
And It's a Good Thing, Too
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right...