University Of Rochester Press imprint: 79 books
by S. Andrew Granade
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Harry Partch (1901-74) was one of the most distinctive and influential American composers of the mid-twentieth century. During the Great Depression, Partch rode the railways, following the fruit harvest across the country. Although he is renowned for his immense stage works, such as Delusion of the...
by Grigory Kogan, Svetlana Belsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Ferruccio Busoni is most widely known today as the composer of such works as the Second Violin Sonata, the incidental music for Gozzi's Turandot, and the most monumental piano concerto in the repertory (some eighty minutes long, with male chorus in the finale). But Busoni was also renowned in his...
Claude Vivier
A Composer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Claude Vivier's haunting and expressive music has captivated audiences around the world. But the French-Canadian composer is remembered also because of the dramatic circumstances of his death: he was found murdered in his Paris apartment at the age of thirty-four. Given unrestricted access to Vivier's...
Star Turns and Cameo Appearances
Memoirs of a Life among Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Star Turns and Cameo Appearances is the entertaining and insightful memoir by veteran music critic Bernard Jacobson. Its pages are populated by eminent composers ranging from Hans Werner Henze to Andrzej Panufnik and by renowned performers, including Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Sviatoslav Richter,...
Maurice Duruflé
The Man and His Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86), and the most comprehensive in any language. James E. Frazier traces Duruflé's musical training, his studies with Tournemire and Vierne, and his career as an organist, church musician, composer,...
Manhood Enslaved
Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries. The book contributes...
The Antivaccine Heresy
Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in fact that states had to make vaccination compulsory. In response, antivaccination societies formed all over the United States, lobbying state legislatures and bringing lawsuits...
Magnetic North
Conversations with Tomas Venclova
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat's classic My Century. Taking the form of an extended interview with Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova, the book interweaves Eastern European postwar...
Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941
Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and events on the Eastern Front that same year were pivotal to the history of World War II. It was during this year that the radicalization of Nazi policy -- through both an all-encompassing approach to warfare and the application of genocidal...
by Teshale Tibebu
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination is a critical study of one of the most prolific and knowledgeable black-world intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on his writings, it shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in...
Ludwik Hirszfeld
The Story of One Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), one of the most prominent serologists of the twentieth century, discovered the inheritance and established the nomenclature of blood groups and opened the field of human population genetics. He also carried out groundbreaking research in the genetics of disease and immunology....
Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa
The Tragedy of Endowment
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2007
Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to land in Zimbabwe and water in the Horn of Africa, the politics surrounding ownership, management, and...
Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States
A History of a Medical Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, American physicians treated women and girls for masturbation by removing the clitoris (clitoridectomy) or clitoral hood (female circumcision). During this same time, and continuing to today, physicians also performed female circumcision...
Making Martyrs
The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
In Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin, Yuliya Minkova examines the language of canonization and vilification in Soviet and post-Soviet media, official literature, and popular culture. She argues that early Soviet narratives constructed stories of national...