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When the World Becomes Female
Guises of a South Indian Goddess
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
During the goddess Gangamma’s festival in the town of Tirupati, lower-caste men take guises of the goddess, and the streets are filled with men wearing saris, braids, and female jewelry. By contrast, women participate by intensifying the rituals they perform for Gangamma throughout the year, such...
by Henry Glassie
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
In the time of the Troubles, when bombs blew through the night and soldiers prowled down the roads, Henry Glassie came to the Irish borderland to learn how country people endure through history. He settled into the farming community of Ballymenone, beside Lough Erne in the County Fermanagh, and listened...
by Roderick Seed
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
For the first time the exercises and teaching methods of world-renowned flutist William Bennett are featured in one workbook. After more than a decade of study with Bennett and many of his students, Roderick Seed has documented the tools that have made Bennett known for his ability to give the flute...
Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music
Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
This book is a substantial and timely contribution to Brahms studies. Its strategy is to focus on a single critical work, the C-Minor Piano Quartet, analyzing and interpreting it in great detail, but also using it as a stepping-stone to connect it to other central Brahms works in order to reach a...
New York Noise
Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Coined in 1992 by composer/saxophonist John Zorn, "Radical Jewish Culture," or RJC, became the banner under which many artists in Zorn's circle performed, produced, and circulated their music. New York's downtown music scene, part of the once-grungy Lower East Side, has long been the site of cultural...
Orson Welles in Focus
Texts and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles’s multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater,...
The Pearl of Dari
Poetry and Personhood among Young Afghans in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
The Pearl of Dari takes us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle of poets and intellectuals who make up the "Pearl of Dari" cultural organization. Dari is the name by which the Persian language is known in Afghanistan....
A Song to Save the Salish Sea
Musical Performance as Environmental Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia. With archipelagos surrounding its shores and tidal surges of the Salish Sea trundling through the interior, this bioregion has long attracted loggers, fishing fleets, and land developers, each...
Bassoon Reed Making
A Pedagogic History
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Withheld by leading pedagogues in an effort to control competition, the art of reed making in the early 20th century has been shrouded in secrecy, producing a generation of performers without reed making fluency. While tenets of past decades remain in modern pedagogy, Christin Schillinger details...
by Erinn E. Knyt
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Many students of renowned composer, conductor, and teacher Ferruccio Busoni had illustrious careers of their own, yet the extent to which their mentor’s influence helped shape their success was largely unexplored until now. Through rich archival research including correspondence, essays, and scores,...
by Krzysztof Ziarek
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Working from newly available texts in Heidegger’s Complete Works, Krzysztof Ziarek presents Heidegger at his most radical and demonstrates how the thinker’s daring use of language is an integral part of his philosophical expression. Ziarek emphasizes the liberating potential of language as an...
Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora
Dublin, New Orleans, Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin’s emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community’s negotiation...
Behind the Smile, Second Edition
The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Behind the Smile is an inside look at the world of Caribbean tourism as seen through the lives of the men and women in the tourist industry in Barbados. The workers represent every level of tourism, from maid to hotel manager, beach gigolo to taxi driver, red cap to diving instructor. These highly...
Spiders of the Market, Enhanced Ebook
Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 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...