Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedomChoice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe.
Aquest llibre explica 100 coses de la música clàssica des de fora i des de dintre, algunes que no us hauríeu imaginat mai i d'altres que segur que ja sabeu.
Frank Schäfer nimmt uns mit auf seine Tauchgänge in die kuttenbehangene, nietenbewehrte, splissgeschädigte Hardrock-Szene und lässt uns teilhaben an dieser herrlich schwarz-weißen und trotzdem hochkomplexen, martialischen und doch so friedlichen Unterwelt.
A prize-winning novel from one of Algeria's rising literary stars In A Waltz, Lynda Chouiten depicts an irreverent and creative woman with an artistic temperament navigating the stiflingly conservative society in which she was raised.
A prize-winning novel from one of Algeria's rising literary stars In A Waltz, Lynda Chouiten depicts an irreverent and creative woman with an artistic temperament navigating the stiflingly conservative society in which she was raised.
From recent decades' digitization have emerged a myriad of techniques for mapping musical life, identifying patterns in sound or musico-cultural practices, and compiling labels, names, tags, and classes on an unprecedented scale.
Feel Like Going Home vividly brings to life such early blues masters as Muddy Waters , Skip James, and Howlin' Wolf, along with illuminating excursions into the blues-based rock 'n' roll of Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, and the Sun Records label.
Here is the first full-scale account of Schoenberg's early tonal works, a rich repertory that music historians have tended to neglect or view as transitional to a mature atonal style.
Examining the cultural significance of the rap album Jarmark (2020) as a reflection of Polish politics and history during the country's populist turn and migration following EU enlargement.
Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained?
Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained?
Whenhe was a young seminarian, the teacher in Luigi Giussanis singing class playeda recording of an aria from a Donizetti opera, Spirto gentil (Gentle spirit,you once shone in my dreams, but after, I lost you forever.
