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Flip the Script
European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it has been taken up by those facing similar struggles....
Creating Country Music
Fabricating Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In Creating Country Music, Richard Peterson traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. Peterson captures the free-wheeling entrepreneurial spirit of the era, detailing...
by Bob Gluck
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis’s live recordings from this time, when he was working with an ensemble that has come...
Music/City
American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Austin’s famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It’s also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot of fun, but for city halls, media corporations,...
So Lonesome
Hank Williams and the Creation of Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Hank Williams (1923–53) was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as the most important country music artist of all time, creator of an unforgettable sound and persona that helped to define the genre from its infancy and beyond. Though unable to read or notate music to any substantive...
Civic Jazz
American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate, but ultimately thoroughly American, conceits that Gregory Clark examines in Civic Jazz. Melding Kenneth...
Music, the Arts, and Ideas
Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on the direction of music in 1967.
by Lewis Rowell
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Offering a broad perspective of the philosophy, theory, and aesthetics of early Indian music and musical ideology, this study makes a unique contribution to our knowledge of the ancient foundations of India's musical culture. Lewis Rowell reconstructs the tunings, scales, modes, rhythms, gestures,...
Seeing Double
Baudelaire's Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining...
The Opera Fanatic
Ethnography of an Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world’s stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Given its association with wealth, one might imagine that opera tickets function as a status symbol. But while a desire to hobnob with the upper crust...
Thug Life
Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Hip-hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx in the 1970s, when rapping and DJing were just part of a lively, decidedly local scene that also venerated b-boying and graffiti. Now hip-hop is a global phenomenon and, in the United States, a massively successful corporate enterprise predominantly...
by William H. McNeill
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
In Europe’s Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment...
Murder by Accident
Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Over fifty years ago, it became unfashionable—even forbidden—for students of literature to talk about an author’s intentions for a given work. In Murder by Accident, Jody Enders boldly resurrects the long-disgraced concept of intentionality, especially as it relates to the theater.
Drawing...
Evangelical Gotham
Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin? More than you might think, says Kyle B. Roberts, who argues that religion must be considered alongside immigration, commerce,...