Oxford University Press Usa imprint: 199 books
Rocking the Classics : English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 1996
Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction mythology and fantasy literature and above all for its attempts to combine classical...
Psychology for Musicians : Understanding and Acquiring the Skills
Understanding and Acquiring the Skills
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2007
What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners advanced music makers and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far fewer people come to be so involved with it that...
Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic popular and avant-garde electronic musicians is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And...
The Making of a Name : The Inside Story of the Brands We Buy
The Inside Story of the Brands We Buy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
How do brand names differ from other names and what goes into making a good name great and a bad name ghastly? Knowing this can spell the difference between bankruptcy and marketplace triumph. In this indispensable guide the authors share the secrets of successful brand names--how they've indelibly...
by R.B. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Here is a concise scholarly yet accessible overview of the brilliant flawed and quarrelsome group of lawyers politicians merchants military men and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history...
Color Blind Justice : Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2006
Civil War officer Reconstruction "carpetbagger" best-selling novelist and relentless champion of equal rights--Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice. Now in this engaging biography Mark Elliott offers an insightful portrait of a fearless lawyer jurist and writer who fought...
by Theda Perdue;Michael D. Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent...
by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia.Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and...
Crossroads of Freedom : Antietam
Antietam
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2002
The Battle of Antietam fought on September 17 1862 was the bloodiest single day in American history with more than 6000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom America's most eminent Civil War...
Copperheads : The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
If Civil War battlefields saw vast carnage the Northern home-front was itself far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge spurred secret plots against the Union and triggered widespread violence such as the New York City draft riots. And at the heart of all this turmoil stood...
by Craig Symonds
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time, not eclipsed until World War I. Written by naval historian Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals unveils an aspect of Lincoln's presidency...
by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 1995
Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious look at the events of the night of April 18, 1775--what...
Following Hadrian : A Second-Century Journey through the Roman Empire
A Second-Century Journey through the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
One of the greatest--and most enigmatic--Roman emperors Hadrian stabilized the imperial borders established peace throughout the empire patronized the arts and built an architectural legacy that lasts to this day: the great villa at Tivoli the domed wonder of the Pantheon and the eponymous wall that...
Freedom Flyers:The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and destroyed more than 200 German...