Oxford University Press Usa: 518 books
by Samuel Zipp
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic "Manhattan projects"--the...
Rebels Rising : Cities and the American Revolution
Cities and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics debated the issues of the day in taverns and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work historian Benjamin L. Carp...
Unbecoming British : How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation
How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-ranging and bold new interpretation of American history and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota shows that political independence from Britain fueled...
Visions of Jazz : The First Century
The First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1998
Poised to become a classic of jazz literature Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning and from the swinging...
by Philip Furia;Laurie Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
From "Over the Rainbow" to "Moon River" and from Al Jolson to Barbra Streisand, The Songs of Hollywood traces the fascinating history of song in film, both in musicals and in dramatic movies such as High Noon. Extremely well-illustrated with 200 film stills, this delightful book sheds much light on some...
The Musician's Way : A Guide to Practice Performance and Wellness
A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
In The Musician's Way veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence. Part I Artful Practice describes strategies to interpret and memorize compositions fuel...
by William Kinderman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets,...
by Paul Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Over three decades Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war and the struggles of the...
Rocking the Classics : English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 1996
Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction mythology and fantasy literature and above all for its attempts to combine classical...
Psychology for Musicians : Understanding and Acquiring the Skills
Understanding and Acquiring the Skills
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2007
What is it that accounts for the differences between musical beginners advanced music makers and world class performers? Virtually everyone likes music and has the capacity to be musical in some way (despite what some may say about themselves). Yet far fewer people come to be so involved with it that...
Listening through the Noise : The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Electronic music since 1980 has splintered into a dizzying assortment of genres and subgenres communities and subcultures. Given the ideological differences among academic popular and avant-garde electronic musicians is it possible to derive an aesthetic theory that accounts for this variety? And...
The Making of a Name : The Inside Story of the Brands We Buy
The Inside Story of the Brands We Buy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
How do brand names differ from other names and what goes into making a good name great and a bad name ghastly? Knowing this can spell the difference between bankruptcy and marketplace triumph. In this indispensable guide the authors share the secrets of successful brand names--how they've indelibly...
by R.B. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Here is a concise scholarly yet accessible overview of the brilliant flawed and quarrelsome group of lawyers politicians merchants military men and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history...
Color Blind Justice : Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2006
Civil War officer Reconstruction "carpetbagger" best-selling novelist and relentless champion of equal rights--Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice. Now in this engaging biography Mark Elliott offers an insightful portrait of a fearless lawyer jurist and writer who fought...