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by Nikolai Findeizen
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history.
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Looking Jewish
Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Jewish art and visual culture—art made by Jews about Jews—in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic...
Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes
Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Robert Hatten’s new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar... in questions of musical meaning.... [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology...
Music and Globalization
Critical Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
World music" emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global. Through the metaphor of encounters, Music and Globalization explores the dynamics that enable or hinder cross-cultural communication through music. In the stories told by the contributors,...
Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera
Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Yayoi Uno Everett focuses on four operas that helped shape the careers of the composers Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun, which represent a unique encounter of music and production through what Everett calls "multimodal narrative." Aspects of production design, the mechanics...
Love in the Time of AIDS
Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and collecting love letters, cell phone text...
by Barbara Tepa Lupack
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
In the early 1900s, so-called race filmmakers set out to produce black-oriented pictures to counteract the racist caricatures that had dominated cinema from its inception. Richard E. Norman, a southern-born white filmmaker, was one such pioneer. From humble beginnings as a roving "home talent" filmmaker,...
Dreams of Duneland
A Pictorial History of the Indiana Dunes Region
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The towering sand dunes along Lake Michigan not far from Chicago are one of the most unexpected natural features of Indiana. Dreams of Duneland is a beautifully illustrated introduction to the Dunes region, its history, and future prospects. This area of shifting sands is also a place of savanna,...
Patrons of Paleontology
How Government Support Shaped a Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of...
The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa
Fighting Their Way Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Erik Kennes and Miles Larmer provide a history of the Katangese gendarmes and their largely undocumented role in many of the most important political and military conflicts in Central Africa. Katanga, located in today's Democratic Republic of Congo, seceded in 1960 as Congo achieved independence and...
Nonprofits in Crisis
Economic Development, Risk, and the Philanthropic Kuznets Curve
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Why do some countries have a vibrant nonprofit sector while others do not? Nonprofits in Crisis explores the theory of risk as a major mechanism through which economic development influences the nonprofit sector. Nuno S. Themudo elaborates this idea by focusing on Mexican nonprofit organizations,...
More Than Chattel
Black Women and Slavery in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1996
... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." —Drew Faust
Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave men’s experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in...
by Allen Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional musicians,...
Music and Embodied Cognition
Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of the...