Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Behind the Smile, Second Edition
The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Behind the Smile is an inside look at the world of Caribbean tourism as seen through the lives of the men and women in the tourist industry in Barbados. The workers represent every level of tourism, from maid to hotel manager, beach gigolo to taxi driver, red cap to diving instructor. These highly...
Spiders of the Market, Enhanced Ebook
Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana, revealing...
Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz
A Study of Dance-Music Relations in 3/4 Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Much music was written for the two most important dances of the 18th and 19th centuries, the minuet and the waltz. In Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz, Eric McKee argues that to better understand the musical structures and expressive meanings of this dance music, one must be aware of the...
Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America
Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history...
Making Music in the Polish Tatras
Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
Challenging myths that mountain isolation and ancient folk customs defined the music culture of the Polish Tatras, Timothy J. Cooley shows that intensive contact with tourists and their more academic kin, ethnographers, since the late 19th century helped shape both the ethnic group known as Górale...
Bartók for Piano
A Survey of His Solo Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1988
"... detailed and thorough... a wealth of information... David Yeomans deserves our thanks for a job exceedingly well done." —American Music Teacher
"... a must for pianists... " —American Reference Book Annual
"David Yeomans’s study is certainly to be...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2006
[Wolff] is a remarkable pianist, an excellent theoretician, a learned teacher, a brilliant thinker and writer." —Artur Schnabel
This collection of [Wolff’s] writings and letters should bear ample testimony to a musician who happily combined the artist, the teacher, the musicologist, and...
by Michael L. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Departing from the traditional German school of music theorists, Michael Klein injects a unique French critical theory perspective into the framework of music and meaning. Using primarily Lacanian notions of the symptom, that unnamable jouissance located in the unconscious, and the registers of subjectivity...
by Martin Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The History of Beyng belongs to a series of Martin Heidegger's reflections from the 1930s that concern how to think about being not merely as a series of occurrences, but as essentially historical or fundamentally as an event. Beginning with Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event), these texts...
Music and the Skillful Listener
American Women Compose the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Denise Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world: Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily...
by Martin Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Martin Heidegger’s writings on Hegel are notoriously difficult but show an essential engagement between two of the foundational thinkers of phenomenology. Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn provide a clear and careful translation of Volume 68 of the Complete Works, which is comprised of two shorter...
Abidjan USA
Music, Dance, and Mobility in the Lives of Four Ivorian Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
Daniel B. Reed integrates individual stories with the study of performance to understand the forces of diaspora and mobility in the lives of musicians, dancers, and mask performers originally from Côte d'Ivoire who now live in the United States. Through the lives of four Ivorian performers, Reed...
Brahms’s Vocal Duets and Quartets with Piano
A Guide with Full Texts and Translations
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1998
... a generous treatment of some of Brahms’s most endearing and imaginative creations." —Choice
... an excellent addition to the literature on vocal chamber music... " —Notes
In this sequel to A Guide to the Solo Songs of Johannes Brahms, Lucien Stark opens up a beautiful and largely...
by Emily Miller Budick
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the epistemological, psychological, and ethical issues...