Filter by
Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
Amy Absher's The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular performers, from the American South to Chicago during the 1930s to 1950s. Absher takes the histor…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472119172
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 780
The Funambulist Pamphlets 3: Deleuze
The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The eleven volumes are respectively dedicated to Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, Legal Theory, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Cruel Designs, Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Sci…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780615844558
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 720
The Funambulist Pamphlets 2: Foucault
The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The eleven volumes are respectively dedicated to Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, Legal Theory, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Cruel Designs, Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Sci…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780615832999
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 720
The Funambulist Pamphlets 10 : Literature
The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The eleven volumes are respectively dedicated to Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, Legal Theory, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Cruel Designs, Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Sci…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780692226803
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 720
The Funambulist Pamphlets 11 Cinema
The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The eleven volumes are respectively dedicated to Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, Legal Theory, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Cruel Designs, Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Sci…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780692390269
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 720
The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and Its Imaginary Contexts
This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are t…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783740291
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 780
Simone Verovio: Music printing, intabulations and basso continuo in Rome arou…
Simone Verovio was the first printer to produce a substantial number of musical prints using engraved copper plates. This intaglio printing technique not only allowed him to print on demand, but also to combine different kinds of notation on one page opening: voice parts with corresponding harpsichord and lute intabulations. This detailed comparison of intaglio and relief printing techniques in…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783205207184
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 780
Ethnomusicology Matters: Influencing Social and Political Realities
This book gathers international voices from the field of ethnomusicology discussing the socio-political relevance of the discipline. The articles draw from contemporary discourses that take into account the role of music and dance in shaping social and political realities. An important field connected to political relevance is heritage, either in connection with the UNESCO or with archives. Ont…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783205232872
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 780
Don’t Be Quiet, Start a Riot! Essays on Feminism and Performance
This collection of essays investigates elements of the human voice and performance, and their implications for gender and sexuality. The chapters address affect, pleasure, and memory in the enjoyment of musical and theatrical performance. Rosenberg also examines contemporary feminist performance, anti-racist interventions, activist aesthetics, and political agency especially with regard to femi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789176350232
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 792 TII d
The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov’S Fiction: Narrative Str…
Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues of wider theoretical import: applicability of the concept of “modeling” in the humanities, theory of mimesis and the function of experimental literature in (post)modernist c…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789949320684
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 791 GRI m
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography