University Of Rochester Press imprint: 79 books
Sex Ed, Segregated
The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Against the backdrop of the Progressive Era, World War I, and the 1920s, sex education burgeoned in the United States through institutions like the YMCA, the popular press, girls' schools, and the US military. As access to sexual knowledge increased, reformers debated what the messages of a sex-education...
Widor
A Life beyond the Toccata
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata brings to light the life and work of one of France's most distinguished musicians in the most complete biography in any language of Charles-Marie Widor. He is considered one of the greatest organists of his time, a prolific composer in nearly every genre, professor...
The Bjorling Sound
A Recorded Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
A half century after his death in 1960, Swedish tenor Jussi Björling remains one of the most beloved singers in the world. He spent forty-five of his forty-nine years performing in public, rapidly conquering opera-house and concert stages on both sides of the Atlantic. Along the way, he left a vast...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The American Academy in Rome launched its Rome Prize in Musical Composition in 1921, a time in the United States of rapidly changing ideas about national identity, musical values, and the significance of international artistic exchange. Music and Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome...
The Men and Women We Want
Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the...
The Lobotomy Letters
The Making of American Psychosurgery
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
The rise and widespread acceptance of psychosurgery constitutes one of the most troubling chapters in the history of modern medicine. By the late 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans had been lobotomized as treatment for a host of psychiatric disorders. Though the procedure would later be decried...
Dear Dorothy
Letters from Nicolas Slonimsky to Dorothy Adlow
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
In the mid-twentieth century renowned musicologist, conductor, and lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky traveled to cities throughout the world to play and conduct music of the American avant-garde. From trips to Paris, Berlin, Havana, New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Moscow, Slonimsky...
The Business of Black Power
Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Business of Black Power emphasizes the centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement and explores the myriad forms of business development in the Black power era. This volume charts a new course for Black power studies and business history, exploring both the business ventures...
Machiavelli's Gospel
The Critique of Christianity in "The Prince"
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
The leading interpretations of The Prince focus on Machiavelli's historical context, but they give little attention to the source on which the moral and political thought of Machiavelli's sixteenth century was based, the Christian Bible. In this study of The Prince, William Parsons plumbs Machiavelli's...