Peter Lang: 4879 books
The Hidden Unity
An Experimental View on Aesthetics and Semiotics of Music in the Czech Milieu
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
This book is based on the results of about forty years of work with one type of analysis of musical communication. It offers an elucidation of the meaning of music as, in addition to other factors, a fictive action and refers to the context of the intrapersonal, interpersonal and social aspects of...
New Crops, Old Fields
Reimagining Irish Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia, from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is not only preserved but continues to be reimagined in all aspects of everyday life in Ireland. In the twenty-first century, the traditions of Irish folklore are engaged...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The International Handbook of Progressive Education engages contemporary debates about the purpose of education, presenting diverse ideas developed within a broadly conceived progressive education movement. It calls for a more critical and dynamic conception of education goals as a necessary element...
by Marouf A. Hasian, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy – from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West – this book provides scholars and readers with a better understanding of some of the short-term and long-term impacts of various forms of celebrity activism.
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José de Acostas «De procuranda Indorum salute»
A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
José de Acosta’s De procuranda Indorum salute: A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In the 20th century, jazz was an important artistic form. Depending on the particular European country, jazz music carried different social, political and aesthetic meanings. It brought challenges in the areas of racial issues, the politics of the Cold War between East and West, and in the exploration...
Playing for Change
Music Festivals as Community Learning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Playing for Change – performing for money and for social justice – introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development agents. Challenging the assumption...
Twelve Studies in Chopin
Style, Aesthetics, and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The studies collected in this book fall into four chief thematic areas of research on Fryderyk Chopin’s life, stylistic changes, creative output, and musical reception. The first one is devoted to the origins of the composer’s artistic formation in the context of his connections with the Main...
The Symphonic Works of Leoš Janáek
From Folk Concepts to Original Style
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This book investigates the spectrum of meaning inherent in six orchestral works by Leoš Janáček. It codifies his compositional style, first through a thorough examination of its origins in folk music and speech-melody, then in discussions of the features of its melody and motivic techniques. His...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The book derives from an European Science Foundation project about the cohesion of European regions developed between 2010 and 2013. Flocel Sabaté led into this framework a team of fourteen scholars looking for the reason of the cohesion and permanence of Catalonia from Middle Ages to current days....
Catalonia and Portugal
The Iberian Peninsula from the periphery
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Between 2010 and 2013 the European Science Foundation project «Cuius Regio» undertook a study of the reasons for cohesion of some European regions, including the analysis of the ways for cohesion of two peripherical Iberian entities: Portugal and Catalonia. A scientific meeting held in Lleida in...
Modern Slavery and Water Spirituality
A Critical Debate in Africa and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book contains close readings of contemporary literary texts and art work by Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking authors from Africa and Latin America. The readings reveal a critical debate that understands reflections on the slave trade and current migrations from Africa to Europe as continuity...
Tradition and Innovation in Language and Linguistics
A Coserian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This volume consists of twelve studies thematically grouped into three parts: (1) Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, (2) Hermeneutics and Text Linguistics, and (3) Lexicology and Phraseology. The phrase «tradition and innovation» characterizes almost all the texts included here, since tradition...
Opera Surtitling as a Special Case of Audiovisual Translation
Towards a Semiotic and Translation Based Framework for Opera Surtitling
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Despite the growing interest in various translation activities, there is still a potentially vast area of research. The statement may be true for opera surtitling, which was introduced in the nineteen eighties and has been used in opera companies worldwide ever since. This book aims to offer a theoretical...