A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-SaensCamille Saint-Saens-perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music-is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his earlier importance.
This book analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility.
Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart.
When we think of composers, we usually envision an isolated artist separate from the orchestra-someone alone in a study, surround by staff paper-and in Europe and America this image generally has been accurate.
Does it make sense to refer to bird song-a complex vocalization, full of repetitive and transformative patterns that are carefully calculated to woo a mate-as art?
A groundbreaking study of the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich—and the consequences for music worldwide With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity.
Mary Wollstonecraft’s visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women’s rights as an issue of universal human rights.
From the earliest days of rock and roll, white artists regularly achieved fame, wealth, and success that eluded the Black artists whose work had preceded and inspired them.
From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragedie en musique).
This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area.
In Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of Hey Jude, James Campion dives deeply into the songs origins, recording, visual presentation, impact, and eventual influence, while also discovering what makes Hey Jude a classic musical expression of personal comfort and societal unity conceived by a master songwriter, Paul McCartney.
How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems and dynamics of gender and idealized femininity.
The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands.
Unique among the various types of impersonation entertainers, a tribute artist concentrates on only a few of a famous singer's notable characteristics in order to effectively evoke that performer through song.
"El análisis general del conflicto colombiano le permitirá al lector desprevenido comprender la naturaleza y el contenido de este libro que recoge una serie de canciones, poemas, fotografías y mapas sobre la guerra de guerrillas en los Llanos Orientales de Colombia, durante la década de los 50 y 60.
Este libro se enmarca en la búsqueda de poner en conocimiento investigativo y sistemático, la dimensión interpretativa de estilos y tendencias, individuales y grupales, en el contexto del lenguaje del joropo practicado en Colombia, desde 1970 hasta el año 2000.
"rando la tradición teórico-crítica, la filosofía de Nancy Fraser no se puede entender sin su estrecha cercanía con las luchas emancipatorias del presente, cuyas agendas, procesos, avances y retrocesos ha ido sometiendo a riguroso análisis crítico.
In Search of Soul explores the meaning of ';soul' in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history.
As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness.
Race, politics, and opera production during apartheid South Africa intersect in this historiographic work on the Eoan Group, a ';coloured' cultural organization that performed opera in the Cape.
Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance.
This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry.
The Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on our special CD and:The tell-all letter from a teenage girl who kissedand kissedElvis PresleyHow corruption and greed made the Jacksonville music sceneGretchen Wilson, country musics Redneck WomanThe invaluable social spaces of African American record storesBobby Rush, bluesman-plusWhere Opryland resides in hearts, minds, and soulsBackstage with the Avett Brothers, Doc Watson, Tift Merritt, Southern Culture on the Skids, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Johnny Cash, and more great artists.
Originally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown's Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider's look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town.
Few bands in the past three decades have proven as affecting or exciting as the Misfits, the ferocious horror punk outfit that lurked in the shadows of suburban New Jersey and released a handful of pivotal underground recordings during their brief, tumultuous time together.
Originally a euphemism for Princeton University's Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, "e;chick lit"e; mutated from a movement in American women's avant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a humorous subset of women's literature, journalism, and advice manuals.
