Search Results - Modernism (music)

Power and image in early modern Europe

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The Jazz Republic : Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany / by Wipplinger, Jonathan O.

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Early modern encounters with the Islamic East performing cultures /

Table of Contents: “…Ousting the Ottomans: the double vision of the East in The travels of the three English brothers (1607) / Ralf Hertel -- Claudio Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624 or 1625): a Christian-Muslim encounter in music? / Clemens Risi -- After Orientalism? post-September 11 culturalisms at play in Bambiland and The Persians / Claudia Breger.…”
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The Jazz Republic Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany / by Wipplinger, Jonathan O.

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Spirits unseen the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture /

Table of Contents: “…Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler -- Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber -- Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler -- Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein -- Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre -- Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub -- Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer -- Painting's enchanting poison : artistic eficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn -- "Singe the enchantment for sleepe" : music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. …”
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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction / by Gellrich, Jesse M., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The argument of the book: medieval writing and modern theory --…”
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American Creoles : The Francophone Caribbean and the American South /

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Crossing Central Europe : Continuities and Transformations, 1900 and 2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Border, transborder, and unification : music and its divergent roles in the nineteenth-century Habsburg territories /…”
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Cold War orientalism Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / by Klein, Christina, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii.…”
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Back to the future of Irish studies festschrift for Tadhg Foley /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Maureen O'Connor -- Walking westward / Robert Young -- The leaving of Wessex: Thomas Hardy's emigrants / Penny Boumelha -- Nomadic figures: the "rhetorical excess" of Irishness in political economy / David Lloyd -- Roots of modernity: primitivism and primitive accumulation in nineteenth-century Ireland / Luke Gibbons -- Economy and ascendancy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Gordon Bigelow -- The art and science of political economy: Nassau Senior and Ireland in the 1830s / Ciara Boylan and Tom Boylan -- Some notes on Hutcheson Macauley Posnett (1855-1927) / Joep Leerssen -- From Bruff to the Balkans: James David Bouchier / Michael Foley -- Reading between the lines / Niamh O'Sullivan -- The world, the music, and the critic: some thoughts on Said's musical transgressions / Helen O'Shea -- Noses and monotheism / Maud Ellmann.…”
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Recentring Asia histories, encounters, identities /

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Contemporary Ukraine on the cultural map of Europe

Table of Contents: “…/ Marta Dyczok -- Envisioning Europe : Ruslana's rhetoric of identity / Marko Pavlyshyn -- Contemporary Ukrainian art and the twentieth century avant-garde / Myroslav Shkandrij -- The past is my beginning : on the recent music scene in Ukraine / Virko Baley.…”
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