The Arts

Climate change is no longer an abstract threat.

Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark works and extraordinary career of Stephen Sondheim, a career which has spanned much of the history of American musical theater.

A Performer's Guide to Transcribing, Editing, and Arranging Early Music provides instruction on three important tasks that early music performers often undertake in order to make their work more noticeable and appealing to their audiences.

A Performer's Guide to Transcribing, Editing, and Arranging Early Music provides instruction on three important tasks that early music performers often undertake in order to make their work more noticeable and appealing to their audiences.

Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map.

'A vital book' JUNO ROCHE'Beautifully illustrated and fascinating' MEG-JOHN BARKER'Fun and fact-filled' SUSAN STRYKERThis inspiring collection of illustrated portraits celebrates the lives of influential transgender, non-binary and intersex figures throughout history.

Echoes of '79: Synths, Circuits, and the New British Sound• Captures a pivotal year in British music with fresh historical insight• Connects punk, disco, reggae, and early electronic music into a single narrative arc• Explores the rise of synthesisers and studio technology shaping the 1980s• Strong appeal to readers of music history, cultural studies, and retro‑era nonfictionBritain, 1979.

The Mississippi River played a decisive role in the American Civil War.

Packed with illustrations, a compact guide to the fortifications on the front lines and how they evolved over the course of the First World War.

The techniques of European warfare were transformed during the 15th and 16th centuries by the use of gunpowder and by substantial progress in the effectiveness and destructive power of artillery.

The 100th title in the Fortress series, this book describes and examines the F hrerhauptquartiere the 14 or so headquarters built for Hitler.

Following the fall of France and the surrender of Paris on 14 June 1940, the British Government announced that the Channel Islands had no strategic importance and would not be defended.

In the last years of his reign Henry VIII needed a radically modern system of defence to protect England and its new Church.

A fascinating study of some of the most famous fortifications of the 20th century and of how their military and political implications shaped the face of northern Europe.

The 50 years before the American Civil War saw a boom in the construction of coastal forts in the United States of America.

A detailed study of the English castles of the medieval period.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the military importance of the Hawaiian Islands became clear.

The design development and combat history of some of the most technologically advanced fortress networks in Germany and France.

The castles built by the Crusaders, Hospitallers, Venetians and Genoese in Cyprus, Greece, the Aegean, and on the Black Sea served to defend against a complex array of constantly changing threats.

Traditional music education centered around the ensemble classroom has often privileged reading music and instrumental technique over creative skills such as composition, improvisation, and learning by ear.

Traditional music education centered around the ensemble classroom has often privileged reading music and instrumental technique over creative skills such as composition, improvisation, and learning by ear.

Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935.

The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smithers monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio.

Surveying the past, present, and future of historic preservation in America, this book features fifteen essays by some of the most important voices in the field.

Cary Grant famously said, "e;Everyone wants to be Cary Grant--even I want to be Cary Grant.

Cary Grant famously said, "e;Everyone wants to be Cary Grant--even I want to be Cary Grant.

This book sets out to investigate the relationship between crime and the design and planning of housing, and to produce practical recommendations to help architects and planners to reduce crime.

This book sets out to investigate the relationship between crime and the design and planning of housing, and to produce practical recommendations to help architects and planners to reduce crime.

If you were asked to close your eyes and envision where you are happiest, would you picture somewhere inside a building?

With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio.

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J.

Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program.

One of the oldest and most celebrated cities in the Western Hemisphere, Havana is a fascinating metropolis where history has left its handprint on every corner.

Thomas Nast (18401902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.

America is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health.

The tintype is rooted in more than 150 years of photographic method.

A groundbreaking study of one of the most important and influential artists of the postwar periodJoseph Beuys (19211986) was one of the most significant artists of the twentieth centuryand one of the most controversial.

When he was in graduate school in the late 1980s, Timothy Duffy began documenting the "e;roots"e; music styles of largely forgotten southern musicians in a series of field recordings.

A UNC Press Enduring Edition UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print.

Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-water boats, both for their livelihoods as fishermen and to maintain connections with one another and with the rest of the world.

America tells its stories through song.

Romare Bearden (19111988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century,richly depictedscenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience.

Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse population.

This beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina's contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richness and diversity.

This aint no Dreamgirls, Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs.

The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C.

Folk art is one of the American Souths most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present.

This new revised and expanded edition of Reality Radio celebrates todays best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

This book invites readers into a growing, dynamic conversation among scholars and critics around a vibrant community of artists from an African American South.

Though artistic and ambitious, Paul Kwilecki (19282009) chose to remain in Bainbridge, Georgia, the small Decatur County town where he was born, raised, and ran the familys hardware store.