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The Performance of the Basso Continuo in Italian Baroque Music
Demonstrates how the basso continuo line has an independent musical funxtion in ensemble music of the Italian Baroque period. Covers the Italian Baroque period (1600-1730). Borgir …
Gender in Chinese Music
Gender in Chinese Music draws together contributions from ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars to explore how music is implicated in changing notions of …
The Politics of Piety
A history of the role played by the Franciscans during the contentious Wars of Religion (1562-1594). In this paperback reissue of The Politics of Piety, author Megan Armstrong …
The Philosopher's English King
The Philosopher's English King offers a close reading of the Henriad, presenting Shakespeare's teaching on political authority and contributing to the burgeoning scholarship on …
Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship
Locates in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition appropriate to the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship in a democracy. Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge …
Russian Theoretical Thought in Music
Offers readers new ways of conceptualizing music and new insights into music created in Russia. Since its original publication in 1983, Russian Theoretical Thought in Music has …
Pedestrian Photographs
A rich collection of photographs representing contemporary New Yorkers in their urban environment. Pedestrian Photographs showcases the keen eye of photographer Larry Merrill, and …
The Music of the Moravian Church in America
The Moravians, or Bohemian Brethren, early Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania and North Carolina in the eighteenth century, brought a musical repertoire that included hymns, …
Medicine's Moving Pictures
Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine that explore the rich history of health-related films. This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical …
Sudan's Blood Memory
A history of Southern Sudan, from pre-colonial times to the present. Many societies worldwide possess oral histories and long memories, reaching back many centuries, particularly …
Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa
This book makes Africa the centerpiece of an intercultural investigation of modern colonial power and its resistance, focusing on the writings of Ghanaian intellectuals. Writing …
