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Expressive Intersections in Brahms
Essays in Analysis and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
“This exceptionally fine collection brings together many of the best analysts of Brahms, and nineteenth-century music generally, in the English-speaking world today.” —Nineteenth-Century Music Review
Contributors to this exciting volume examine the intersection of structure and meaning...
The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons
From Scarlatti to Beethoven
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
In the late 17th century, Italian musician and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a new musical instrument—his cembalo che fa il piano e forte, which allowed keyboard players flexible dynamic gradation. This innovation, which came to be known as the hammer-harpsichord or fortepiano grand,...
by Bella Brover-Lubovsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi incorporates an analytical study of Vivaldi's style into a more general exploration of harmonic and tonal organization in the music of the late Italian Baroque. The harmonic and tonal language of Vivaldi and his contemporaries, full of curious links between...
O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note
Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
In the 17th century, harmonious sounds were thought to represent the well-ordered body of the obedient subject, and, by extension, the well-ordered state; conversely, discordant, unpleasant music represented both those who caused disorder (murderers, drunkards, witches, traitors) and those who suffered...
Swahili Port Cities
The Architecture of Elsewhere
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place of cosmopolitan longing....
by Timothy J. McGee
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
In Europe the tradition of secular dance has continued unbroken until the present. In the late Middle Ages it was an important and frequent event—for the nobility a gracious way to entertain guests, for the peasantry a welcome relaxation from the toils of the day. Now back in print, this collection...
Claiming Society for God
Religious Movements and Social Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Claiming Society for God focuses on common strategies employed by religiously orthodox, fundamentalist movements around the world. Rather than employing terrorism, as much of post-9/11 thinking suggests, these movements use a patient, under-the-radar strategy of infiltrating and subtly transforming...
by Akinwumi Adesokan
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
What happens when social and political processes such as globalization shape cultural production? Drawing on a range of writers and filmmakers from Africa and elsewhere, Akin Adesokan explores the forces at work in the production and circulation of culture in a globalized world. He tackles problems...
Music and the Armenian Diaspora
Searching for Home in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and their descendants have used music to adjust to a life in exile and counter fears of obscurity. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Sylvia Angelique Alajaji shows how the boundaries of Armenian music and identity have been continually redrawn: from...
by Roy Armes
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These seminal filmmakers experienced the moment of national independence first-hand in their youth and retained...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: documenting human rights...
Global Nollywood
The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development...
Spiders of the Market
Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 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...
The Calls of Islam
Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2013
The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once–marginal Sufi practices...