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Music, Power, and Politics

Randall, Annie J
Music, Power, and Politics
Essays by scholars from around the world explore the means by which music's long-acknowledged potential to persuade, seduce, indoctrinate, rouse, incite, or even silence listeners has been used to advance agendas of power and protest.

CHF 83.00

The Language of the Modes

Wiering, Frans
The Language of the Modes
The Language of the Modes provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. The volume codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. For many music students and listeners, the "language of the modes" is a deep mystery, accustomed as we are to centuries of modern harmony. Wiering demystifies the modal wo...

CHF 81.00

Graham Greene

Hoskins, Robert
Graham Greene
This study reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its "literary" interpretation into his fiction.

CHF 83.00

Hermeneutics and Music Criticism

Savage, Roger W H
Hermeneutics and Music Criticism
Hermeneutics and Music Criticism forges new perspectives on aesthetics, politics and contemporary interpretive strategies. By advancing new insights into the roles judgment and imagination play both in our experiences of music and its critical interpretation, this book reevaluates our current understandings of music¿s transformative power. The engagement with critical musicologists and philosophers, including Adorno, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, prov...

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Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot and the Gender Dynamics of Mode...

Lee, Monika
Djuna Barnes, T. S. Eliot and the Gender Dynamics of Modernism
This study looks at the origins of the modernist movement, linking gender, modernism and the literary, before considering the bearing these discourses had on Djuna Barnes's writing. The main contribution of this innovative and scholarly work is the exploration of the editorial changes that T. S. Eliot made to the manuscript of Nightwood, as well as the revisions of the early drafts initiated by Emily Holmes Coleman. The archival research prese...

CHF 92.00

Blues, Funk, Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Hip Hop and Rap

Meadows, Eddie S
Blues, Funk, Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Hip Hop and Rap
Despite the influence of African American music and study as a worldwide phenomenon, no comprehensive and fully annotated reference tool currently exists that covers the wide range of genres. This much needed bibliography fills an important gap in this research area and will prove an indispensable resource for librarians and scholars studying African American music and culture.

CHF 87.00

Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road

Roberson, Susan L
Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road
A study of American women¿s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote. Roberson examines a variety of narrat...

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William Blake and the Digital Humanities

Whitson, Roger / Whittaker, Jason
William Blake and the Digital Humanities
William Blake¿s work demonstrates two tendencies that are central to social media: collaboration and participation. Not only does Blake cite and adapt the work of earlier authors and visual artists, but contemporary authors, musicians, and filmmakers feel compelled to use Blake in their own creative acts. This book identifies and examines Blake¿s work as a social and participatory network, a phenomenon described as zoamorphosis, which encourag...

CHF 74.00

Style Differences in Cognition, Learning, and Management

Rayner, Stephen / Cools, Eva
Style Differences in Cognition, Learning, and Management
This book presents leading edge research and a `global paradigm¿ for the theory of style differences in human performance. It extends an understanding of style differences in learning, thinking and behavior, developing style research methodology, assessment, and applying style in learning, knowledge management, organizational learning, technology and pedagogy.

CHF 93.00

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World

Debrauwere-Miller, Nathalie
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World
With interdisciplinary analyses of texts whose origins span the diversity of the Jewish and Muslim traditions, the provocative essays collected in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World offer startling insights into the meaning of the volatile history of this conflict in the Francophone world.

CHF 81.00

Managing Service Firms

Skålén, Per
Managing Service Firms
Based on a conceptual analysis of marketing texts and a case study of a service firm that utilizes innovative approaches to managing organizations, this book presents a critical examination of marketing as a managerial practice.

CHF 28.90