California Press: 1495 books

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In Search of Soul

Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion

by Alejandro Nava
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

In Search of Soul explores the meaning of “soul” in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history. Surveying the work of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers and theologians, Alejandro Nava shows how...
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The Ghosts of Gombe

A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness

by Dale Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018

On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall’s famous chimpanzee research camp in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania, East Africa, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later, her body was found floating in a pool at the base...
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by James Q. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians. Rubini, Chopin, Nourrit, Liszt, Donzelli, Thalberg, Velluti, Sontag, and Malibran were prominent celebrity pianists and singers who plied their trade between London...
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by Andrew Dell'Antonio
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011

The early seventeenth century, when the first operas were written and technical advances with far-reaching consequences—such as tonal music—began to develop, is also notable for another shift: the displacement of aristocratic music-makers by a new professional class of performers. In this book,...
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The Doctor Faustus Dossier

Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and Their Contemporaries, 1930-1951

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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018

Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private and public lives and culminates...
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Listening for the Secret

The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation

by Ulf Olsson
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group’s music, politics, and performance. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, the Grateful Dead provides a unique lens through which we can...
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Exceptional America

What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other

by Mugambi Jouet
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017

Why did Donald Trump follow Barack Obama into the White House? Why is America so polarized? And how does American exceptionalism explain these social changes?   In this provocative book, Mugambi Jouet describes why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including...
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What Kind of Liberation?

Women and the Occupation of Iraq

by Nadje Al-Ali, Nicola Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009

In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that America's interest was in liberation—especially for women. The first book to examine how Iraqi women have fared since the invasion, What Kind of Liberation? reports from the heart of the war zone with dire news of scarce...
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I Did It to Save My Life

Love and Survival in Sierra Leone

by Catherine Bolten
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Utilizing narratives of seven different people—soldier, rebel, student, trader, evangelist, father, and politician—I Did it To Save My Life provides fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. Individuals in the town of Makeni narrate...
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by Aynne Kokas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

Winner of the Chinese American Librarian Association Best Book Award Winner of the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award Montaigne Medal Finalist, Eric Hoffer Awards 2018 Frank Luther Mott - Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award Finalist China’s entry into the...
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Hiding in Plain Sight

The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror

by Eric Stover, Victor Peskin, Alexa Koenig
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016

Hiding in Plain Sight tells the story of the global effort to apprehend the world’s most wanted fugitives. Beginning with the flight of tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals and their collaborators after World War II, then moving on to the question of justice following the recent Balkan wars and...
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Caravan of Martyrs

Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan

by David B. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a crowded street? Scholars have answered this question by focusing on the pathology of the “terrorist mind” or the “brainwashing” practices of terrorist organizations. In Caravan of Martyrs, David...
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Music and Politics in San Francisco

From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War

by Leta E. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011

This lively history immerses the reader in San Francisco’s musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923). Leta E. Miller draws...
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by Ellen Lockhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

This path-breaking study of stage works in Italian musical performances reconsiders a crucial period of music history. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the statue animated by music, Ellen Lockhart deftly shows how Enlightenment ideas influenced Italian theater and music, and vice versa....
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