Search Results - Modernism (music)

Painted poetry colour in Baudelaire's art criticism / by Smith, Ann Kennedy, 1962-

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Language and its contexts transposition and transformation of meaning? = Le langage et ses contexts : transposition et transformation du sens? /

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Contemporary Sephardic identity in the Americas an interdisciplinary approach /

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Jewish public culture in the late Russian empire by Veidlinger, Jeffrey, 1971-

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Rape at the Opera : Staging Sexual Violence / by Cormier, Margaret

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The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City /

Table of Contents: “…17.Racialized Citizenship in the Modern American City, Ethnographically Considered --John Jackson--18.A Right to the City? …”
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The turn to transcendence the role of religion in the twenty-first century / by Olsen, Glenn W. (Glenn Warren), 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Three premises -- Modernism -- The music of the spheres -- The loss of transcendence -- Alternatives.…”
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Ignaz Friedman romantic master pianist / by Evans, Allan, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Musical traditions that hide in shellac -- From Poland -- "Music begins where technique leaves off" -- 2,800 concerts -- From Old Russia -- Encroaching modernism -- From Beethoven to Hitler -- In safety, down under -- Exile -- Chopin on the Nile -- The piano according to Tiegerman -- The piano according to Friedman.…”
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Beyond the nation diasporic Filipino literature and queer reading / by Ponce, Martin Joseph

Table of Contents: “…The romantic didactics of Maximo Kalaw's nationalism -- The queer erotics of Jose Garcia Villa's modernism -- The sexual politics of Carlos Bulosan's radicalism -- The cross-cultural musics of Jessica Hagedorn's postmodernism -- The diasporic poetics of queer martial law literature -- The transpacific tactics of contemporary Filipino American literature.…”
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The selected correspondence of Aaron Copland by Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

Table of Contents: “…Brooklyn and Paris, 1909-24 -- The world of modern music, 1924-31 -- The depression years, 1932-37 -- Musical triumphs, 1937-42 -- During and after the war, 1942-48 -- The post-war decade, 1948-58 -- 1958 and beyond.…”
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The master and his emissary the divided brain and the making of the Western world / by McGilchrist, Iain

Table of Contents: “…-- Language, truth, and music -- The nature of the two worlds -- The primacy of the right hemisphere -- The triumph of the left hemisphere -- Imitation and the evolution of culture -- The ancient world -- The Renaissance and the Reformation -- The Enlightenment -- Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution -- The modern and post-modern worlds.…”
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The master and his emissary : the divided brain and the making of the Western world / by McGilchrist, Iain

Table of Contents: “…-- Language, truth, and music -- The nature of the two worlds -- The primacy of the right hemisphere -- The triumph of the left hemisphere -- Imitation and the evolution of culture -- The ancient world -- The Renaissance and the Reformation -- The Enlightenment -- Romanticism and the Industrial Revolution -- The modern and post-modern worlds.…”
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Brand new China advertising, media, and commercial culture / by Wang, Jing, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- Hello Moto: youth culture and music marketing -- CCTV and advertising media.…”
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On opera by Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen

Table of Contents: “…-- Don Giovanni as an idea -- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Così fan tutte -- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom -- Tristan and time -- The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring -- Wagner and the transcendence of politics -- L'envers des destinées : remarks on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande -- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini -- Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson -- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart -- Janáček's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy -- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production -- Naïve and sentimental opera lovers.…”
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Emotions and health, 1200-1700

Table of Contents: “…Solomon -- A disease unto death : sadness in the time of Shakespeare / Erin Sullivan -- Medicine, psychology, and the melancholic subject in the Renaissance / Angus Gowaland -- Music and spirit in early modern thought / Penelope Gouk.…”
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Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater artistic developments in the Muslim world /

Table of Contents: “…Staging the body and the world stage. Islamic modernity and the re-enchanting power of symbols in Islamic fantasy serials in Turkey / Ahu Yiğit -- From "evil-inciting" dance to chaste "rhythmic movements": a genealogy of modern Islamic dance-theatre in Iran / Zeinab stellar -- Suficized musics of Syria at the intersection of heritage and the War on Terror; or "a Rumi with a view" / Jonathan H. …”
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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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The courtesan's arts cross-cultural perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Zeitlin -- The courtesan's voice : Petrarchan lovers, pop philosophy, and oral traditions / Martha Feldman -- On hearing the courtesan in a gift of song : the Venetian case of Gaspar Stampa / Dawn De Rycke -- On locating the courtesan in Italian lyric : distance and the madrigal texts of Costanzo Festa / Justin Flosi -- On music fit for a courtesan : representations of the courtesan and her music in sixteenth-century Italy / Drew Edward Davies -- Royalty's courtesans and God's mortal wives : keepers of culture in precolonial India / Doris M. …”
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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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West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals : History, Memory, and Transnationalism / by Njoku, Raphael Chijioke

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On Origins of Masking: History, Memory, and Ritual Observances -- Aspects of Society and Culture in the Biafra Hinterland -- Bantu Migrations and Cultural Transnationalism in the Ancient Global Age, c. 2500 BCE-1400 CE -- Bight of Biafra, Slavery, and Diasporic Africa in the Modern Global Age, 1400-1800 -- Igbo Masquerade Dances in the African Diasporas:Symbols and Meanings -- Unmasking the Masquerade: Counterideologies and Contemporary Practices -- Idioms of Religion, Music, Dance, and African Art Forms -- Memory and Masquerade Narratives: The Art of Remembering.…”
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