In 1989, the Michigan MozartFest brought expert performers, instrument makers, critics, music theorists, and musicologists together for the first symposium devoted exclusively to Mozart's piano concertos. The twenty-one essays in this volume, culled from that event, richly broaden our understanding of this corpus.
Explores how North Korean state-sponsored propaganda performances - including public spectacles, theater, film, and other visual media including posters - shape everyday practice in a country where the performing arts are not only a means of entertainment but also a forceful institution used to regulate, educate, and mobilize people.
In Ceremony and Power analyzes the relationship between political power and public ceremonial in the period between Julius Caesar and the first emperor Augustus.
Traces a rebellious spirit in post-civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights, black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements, who through reinvention created a repertoire of performances that have left a lasting mark on popular music.
The Jewish Culture League was created in Berlin in June 1933, the only organization in Nazi Germany in which Jews were not only allowed, but encouraged, to participate in music, both as performers and as audience members. This book intends to investigate and parse the complicated questions the existence of this unique organization raised.
A groundbreaking study of the intersection of popular music and disability
Using the author's archaeological research in two Upper Paleolithic caves as well as her personal experiences in sorting through her family's history and working in environmental education as a framework for examining the concepts of time, place, and human story, this book explores the central themes of home, wildness, and ruins.
Tracing how the emergence of global capitalism gave rise to the Thirty Years' Crisis
Explores two themes in the history of Barcelona's Jewish community in its formative years, from the middle of the eleventh century to the end of the thirteenth. This work examines the relationship of the Jewish community in Barcelona to Catalan society. It traces the development of the intra-Jewish community.
In Love and Ethics, Peter Nicholson offers a comprehensive reading of Gower's Confessio, as well as a guide to the issues that it poses, linking all of the diverse elements of Gower's complex poem into a single broad view of its purpose and structure.
Reveals how the concept of money did not materialize until the invention of Greek coinage
De Legibus has been one of Cicero's most neglected works; this commentary provides a detailed interpretation and places the essay in the context of the politics and philosophical thought of its time.
Digs deeply into previously undiscovered archival evidence to examine Piero della Francesca's yet unstudied earliest works and their connections to his putative formation in Florence. James Banker's historical investigation integrates social and art history to provide a rich and informative cultural context for della Francesca's development.
Compares industrial management in two late-industrializers-Japan and Russia-as a basis for an original theory of institution-building
How the First Amendment has been aggressively and inappropriately expanded by commercial entities.
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