California Press: 1495 books
In Search of Soul
Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion
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...
The Ghosts of Gombe
A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness
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...
by James Q. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
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...
by Andrew Dell'Antonio
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
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,...
The Doctor Faustus Dossier
Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and Their Contemporaries, 1930-1951
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...
Listening for the Secret
The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation
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...
Exceptional America
What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other
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...
What Kind of Liberation?
Women and the Occupation of Iraq
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...
I Did It to Save My Life
Love and Survival in Sierra Leone
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...
by Aynne Kokas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
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...
Hiding in Plain Sight
The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror
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...
Caravan of Martyrs
Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan
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...
Music and Politics in San Francisco
From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War
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...
by Ellen Lockhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
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....