University Of California Press: 1479 books
Contesting Indochina
French Remembrance between Decolonization and Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
How does a nation come to terms with losing a war—especially an overseas war whose purpose is fervently contested? In the years after the war, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the stunning defeat at Dien Bien Phu ushered in the...
Imperial Benevolence
U.S. Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture since 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
This is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States' endless wars. Investigating multiple genres of popular culture alongside contemporary U.S. foreign policy and political economy, *Imperial Benevolence *shows that American popular culture continuously suppresses awareness...
The Tide Was Always High
The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song “The Tide Is High,” originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt. Featuring percussion by Peruvian drummer and veteran LA session musician “Alex” Acuña, and with...
Zorba the Buddha
Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Zorba the Buddha is the first comprehensive study of the life, teachings, and following of the controversial Indian guru known in his youth as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and in his later years as Osho (1931–1990). Most Americans today remember him only as the “sex guru” and the “Rolls Royce guru,”...
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...
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...
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....
Waiting for Verdi
Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests or when facing the firing squad. While many of the accompanying stories were exaggerated, or even invented, by later generations, Verdi's operas—along with those by Rossini,...
Sounds
The Ambient Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This is not a book about sound. It is a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. John Mowitt seeks to critique existing models in the expanding field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that solicits a humanistic approach encompassing...
by Eric Rath
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
How did one dine with a shogun? Or make solid gold soup, sculpt with a fish, or turn seaweed into a symbol of happiness? In this fresh look at Japanese culinary history, Eric C. Rath delves into the writings of medieval and early modern Japanese chefs to answer these and other provocative questions,...
by André Bazin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2014
André Bazin’s writings on cinema are among the most influential reflections on the medium ever written. Even so, his critical interests ranged widely and encompassed the "new media" of the 1950s, including television, 3D film, Cinerama, and CinemaScope. Fifty-seven of his reviews and...