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Empire's Children
Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Europe’s imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers.When Emmanuelle Saada discovered a 1928 decree defining the status of persons...
"So What Are You Going to Do with That?"
Finding Careers Outside Academia, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan and credit card debts grow. What’s a frustrated...
MOOCs and Their Afterlives
Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
A trio of headlines in the Chronicle of Higher Education seem to say it all: in 2013, “A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves;” in 2014, “Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise,” and in 2015, “The MOOC Hype Fades.” At the beginning of the 2010s, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses,...
Kwaito's Promise
Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country’s urban black youth developed kwaito—a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito...
Sound Diplomacy
Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
The German-American relationship was special long before the Cold War; it was rooted not simply in political actions, but also long-term traditions of cultural exchange that date back to the nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1910, the United States was a rising star in the international arena,...
The Melodramatic Moment
Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790–1820
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look—from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein’s creation, and from Louise Brooks’s exaggerated acting in Pandora’s Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper.
This...
A Monastery in Time
The Making of Mongolian Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
A Monastery in Time is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery—the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia—from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural Revolution, Caroline Humphrey and Hürelbaatar Ujeed...
Purity and Exile
Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, Liisa Malkki shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct...
by José Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies.
During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this focus would suggest. To hear an orchestra, people...
Opera and Sovereignty
Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that...
Pick Up the Pieces
Excursions in Seventies Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest—from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco. With...
Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog
Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Gravity’s Ghost and Big Dog brings to life science’s efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein’s theories but also transform astronomy. Although no gravitational...
Deep Refrains
Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance?
In Deep Refrains, Michael Gallope draws together the writings...