University Of California Press: 1479 books
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...
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...
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...
Wings for Our Courage
Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de’ Medici murdered Alessandro de’ Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Florentine history, and in the history of republican thought, because Lorenzino, a classical scholar, fashioned himself after Brutus as a republican...
A Poet's Revolution
The Life of Denise Levertov
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and interviews with...
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements
Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, Wicca,...
by Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world, sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Presentations program. Performances of music in many styles—classical, rock ’n’ roll, folk, blues, and jazz—competed with those by traveling Soviet and...
Curtain, Gong, Steam
Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and how the uses and meanings of the required apparatuses...
The Hum of the World
A Philosophy of Listening
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas with playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and...
by Christopher Alan Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In this original study, Christopher Alan Reynolds examines the influence of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on two major nineteenth-century composers, Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann. During 1845–46 the compositional styles of Schumann and Wagner changed in a common direction, toward a style that...
by Joshua Glick
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977 explores how documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy and the Bicentennial created conflicting visions of the recent and more distant American past. Drawing on a wide range of primary documents, Joshua...