Search Results - Modernism (music)

The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan by Mason, Robert, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…From old Home Melodies to jazz music: 1928-1933; 2. As Maine goes, so goes Vermont: 1933-1939; 3. …”
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Paris and the Art of Transposition : Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters / by Chau, Angie

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The new Black gods Arthur Huff Fauset and the study of African American religions /

Table of Contents: “…Curtis IV -- "The consciousness of God's presence will keep you well, healthy, happy, and singing" : the tradition of innovation in the music of Father Divine's peace mission movement / Leonard Norman Primiano -- "A true Moslem is a true spiritualist" : Black orientalism and Black gods of the metropolis / Jacob S. …”
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Making easy listening material culture and postwar American recording / by Anderson, Tim J.

Table of Contents: “…stitching the intertext of My fair lady ; Listening to my My fair lady : versioning and the recorded music object -- Stereo, hi-fi, and the modern pleasures of easy listening. …”
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Given world and time temporalities in context /

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Recentring Asia histories, encounters, identities /

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The Blackwell guide to aesthetics

Table of Contents: “…The origins of modern aesthetics : 1711-1735 / Paul Guyer -- Defining art : intension and extension / George Dickie -- Art and the aesthetic / Marcia Muelder Eaton -- The ontology of art / Amie L. …”
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Lahore Cinema : Between Realism and Fable / by Dadi, Iftikhar

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Events tourism : critical insights and contemporary perspectives /

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Martin Heidegger and the Question of Literature : Toward a Postmodern Literary Hermeneutics /

Table of Contents: “…Marshall -- Attuned to being : Heideggerian music in technological society / Gerry Stahl.…”
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First readers of Shakespeare's sonnets, 1590-1790 / by Acker, Faith D.

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The cultural fusion of Sufi Islam : alternative paths to mystical faith /

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East Asian cinemas exploring transnational connections on film /

Table of Contents: “…Remaking Seven samurai in world cinema / David Desser -- Fashioning modernity : Hollywood and the Hong Kong musical 1957-64 / Gary Needham -- Electric shadow of an airplane : Hong Kong cinema, world cinema / Charles Leary -- pt. 2., All changing on the eastern front. …”
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Ambiguous pleasures sexuality and middle class self-perceptions in Nairobi / by Spronk, Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Hip and ambitious in Nairobi -- Conceiving sexuality -- Interfaces of pleasure and anxiety -- Structure of the book -- The study of sexuality -- Sexuality research in Kenya -- Health approaches to sexuality -- Sexuality research in the context of AIDS in Africa -- The dynamics of sexuality: the focus of this study -- Anthropology and sexuality -- The social construction of sexuality, and its limits -- Sex as embodied experience -- Historicising sexuality -- Methodological aspects of sexuality research -- Researching sex and sexuality: research places and practices -- Researching sex and sexuality: collection and validity of data -- An unmarried with partner, non-Kenyan, white female young professional -- Young professionals: emblems of social transformation -- Sexuality and societal transformations -- Gender and sexuality in colonial times -- Gender and sexuality in postcolonial times -- Social transformation and moral anxiety -- The young and ambitious in Nairobi -- Classifying young professionals -- Hesitations about ethnicity and issues of belonging -- Living independently and single -- Nightlife and dating -- Young urban professionals and the formation of a contemporary identity -- Explorers of a modern identity -- Young professionals' position towards customary ways of living -- 'Westernization' -- Africanness -- Conclusion -- Society in flames: sexuality in the context of AIDS -- AIDS as a context of life -- Africanist perspectives on AIDS and sexuality -- Policies of the government and nongovernmental organizations -- The definition of 'risk groups' -- The medicalization of sexuality -- Christian perceptions of AIDS and sexuality -- The remoralization of sexuality -- Sexuality and contemporary lifestyles -- AIDS as the disease of 'immorality' -- The public emergence of the intimate -- Intimacy as part of lifestyle -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sexual desire, career, and femininity -- Female sexuality in Nairobi, Kenya and beyond -- Pamela, Martha, Njeri, Tayiani and Dorcas -- The importance of dating -- 'Playing hard to get' -- To give and to receive sexual pleasure -- Chastity and the realization of sexual pleasure -- Boundaries of sexual pleasure -- Between sexual allure and limited availability -- Appropriating sexual pleasure -- Sexual pleasure and conventional expectations -- Communicating ambiguity -- Embodying transformations -- Conclusion -- Ambiguous pleasures: sex, riches and masculinity -- Male sexuality in Nairobi society, Kenya and beyond -- Alex, Eric, Tom, Maurice and Ongeri -- Men's sexual debut -- Circumcision as constitutive to masculinity -- Sex as a skill-being a 'good lover' -- Love in relation to sexual drive -- Sex and having 'arrived' -- Moving between sexual prowess and restrained potency -- Sexual desire as a physical craving -- Balancing too much and too little sex -- The waning dominant patriarchal ideology -- Accommodating change -- Conclusion -- Sign of the times: media and the therapeutic ethos of romantic love -- Romantic love and the twin spheres of consumption and mass media -- Representing romantic love: films, television and advertisements -- Television -- Advertising -- The privileging of the image -- The manifestations of romantic love: music -- Practicing romantic love: dating -- Practices of mediation: magazines -- The therapeutic discourse on relationships -- Sign of the times: imaginations and practices of romantic love versus 'Westernization', or the perils of modernity -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: sexuality and its ambiguous pleasures -- Researching sexuality in Africa -- The pleasures and anxieties of sexuality -- Middle-class lifestyles and self-perceptions -- Sex and sophistication - self and embodiment.…”
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One World, Many Knowledges : Regional experiences and cross-regional links in higher education /

Table of Contents: “…The struggle, global challenges and international strategies in the University of Fort Hare's music department / Bernhard Bleibinger -- 7. The migration of African students to South Africa : motivations, integration and prospects for return / Gabriel Tati -- 8. …”
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A companion to Terence

Table of Contents: “…Fabula Stataria: Language and Humor in Terence Heather Vincent 5. Meter and Music Timothy J. Moore PART II CONTEXTS AND THEMES 6. …”
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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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Christian humanism essays in honour of Arjo Vanderjagt /

Table of Contents: “…Types of inconsistency in the astrology of Ficino and others / John North -- The metaphysical unity of music, motion, and time in Augustine's De musica / Stephen Gersh -- World without end : Nicholas of Cusa's view of time and eternity / Matthieu van der Meer -- Copernicus' Praefatio in libros revolutionum : humanism and scholarly debate / Marc van der Poel -- Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples : humanism and hermeticism in the De magia naturali / Jan R. …”
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The Dybbuk Century : The Jewish Play That Possessed the World /

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A New Year's Present from a Mathematician by Lawrence, Snezana

Table of Contents: “…; Big Numbers in Antiquity; Erdos and His Mathematical Friends' Numbers; A Famous Mistake and the Value of Big Numbers; Notes; Chapter 10 October; The Rounded Life and Music of Vibrating Strings; The Fourth Dimension; Thought Experiments; Some More Difficult Maths; A Full Circle Back to Le Rond and His Way of Finding Happiness; Notes; Chapter 11 November; We May be Friends, But I Still Have to Check Whether What You are Saying is True; New Worlds on the Horizon; The Boole Family and Their Friends; As Mathematical Families Go...…”
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