University Of California Press: 1479 books
Making Money, Making Music
History and Core Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Making Money, Making Music offers tools to encourage creative and adaptive entrepreneurship in the music business. Written for the classroom and the workplace, it introduces readers to core principles and processes and shows how to apply them adaptively to new contexts, facilitating a deeper understanding...
Charles Burnett
A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
In the first book devoted to Charles Burnett, a crucial figure in the history of American cinema often regarded as the most influential member of the L.A. Rebellion group of African American filmmakers, James Naremore provides a close critical study of all Burnett’s major pictures for movies and...
Funny Pictures
Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom’s earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who’s who of animation authorities, Funny Pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation became associated with...
An Invention without a Future
Essays on Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
In 1895, Louis Lumière supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema in the digital age, and as a way of introducing a wide-ranging series of his essays on movies...
I Too Have Some Dreams
N.M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
I Too Have Some Dreams explores the work of N. M. Rashed, Urdu's renowned modernist poet, whose career spans the last years of British India and the early decades of postcolonial South Asia. A. Sean Pue argues that Rashed’s poetry carved out a distinct role for literature in the maintenance of doubt,...
Spoken Word
Postwar American Phonograph Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
From the 1940s to the 1970s, the phonograph industry experienced phenomenal growth, both in sales and in cultural influence. Along with hugely popular music recordings, spoken word LPs served a multitude of functions and assumed an important place in the American home. In this book, Jacob Smith surveys...
by Virgil
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
These delightful poems—by turns whimsical, beautiful, and vulgar—seem to have primarily survived because they were attributed to Virgil. But in David R. Slavitt’s imaginative and appealing translations, they stand firmly on their own merits. Slavitt brings to this little-known body of verse...
by Apollonios Rhodios
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
The Argonautika, the only surviving epic of the Hellenistic era, is a retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, probably the oldest extant Greek myth. Peter Green's lively, readable verse translation captures the swift narrative movement of Apollonios's epic Greek. This expanded paperback...
Song Loves the Masses
Herder on Music and Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Distinguished ethnomusicologist Philip V. Bohlman compiles Johann Gottfried Herder’s writings on music and nationalism, from his early volumes of Volkslieder through sacred song to the essays on aesthetics late in his life, shaping them as the book on music that Herder would have written had he...
India and Pakistan
Continued Conflict or Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Beginning in 1947, when "India and Pakistan were born to conflict," renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible primer on what is potentially the world's most dangerous crisis. He concisely distills sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots...
Manners and Mischief
Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Offering a concise, entertaining snapshot of Japanese society, Manners and Mischief examines etiquette guides, advice literature, and other such instruction for behavior from the early modern period to the present day and discovers how manners do in fact make the nation. Eleven accessibly written...
Ancient Greek Epigrams
Major Poets in Verse Translation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
After Sappho but before the great Latin poets, the most important short poems in the ancient world were Greek epigrams. Beginning with simple expressions engraved on stone, these poems eventually encompassed nearly every theme we now associate with lyric poetry in English. Many of the finest are on...
Eating Bitterness
Stories from the Front Lines of China’s Great Urban Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China’s urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel the country’s staggering economic growth. Award-winning journalist Michelle Dammon Loyalka follows the trials and triumphs of eight such migrants—including a vegetable vendor,...
Taiko Boom
Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan,...