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A Feminist Ethnomusicology

Ellen Koskoff

• Paperback | Engels | New Perspectives on Gender in Music
• One of the pioneers of gender studies in music, Ellen Koskoff edited the foundational text Women and Music in Cross Cultural Perspective , and her car... Lees meer

The Poetics of Difference

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | New Black Studies
• Winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)'s William Sanders Scarborough Prize From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muhol... Lees meer

Disappearing Tricks

Matthew Solomon

• Paperback | Engels
• Disappearing Tricks revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinem... Lees meer

The Costs of the Gig Economy

Falina Enriquez

• Paperback | Engels
• Institutions in Recife, Brazil, have restructured subsidies in favor of encouraging musicians to become more entrepreneurial. Falina Enriquez explores... Lees meer

Breaking the Land

Pete R Daniel

• Paperback | Engels
• Winner of the Herbert Feis Award of the American Historical Association, 1985. Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Associ... Lees meer

Unbinding Gentility

Candace Bailey

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in American Life
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022 Hearing southern women in the pauses of history Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life p... Lees meer

Digital Depression

Dan Schiller

• Paperback | Engels | Geopolitics of Information
• The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook the idea that advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as solely a source of economic rejuven... Lees meer

An Imperfect Occupation

John Boje

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Military Occupation
• The South African War (1899-1902), also called the Boer War and Anglo-Boer War, began as a conventional conflict. It escalated into a savage irregular... Lees meer

Preacher

Roger A Bruns

• Paperback | Engels
• In this fast-paced, captivating account of Billy Sunday's life, Roger A. Bruns masterfully unfolds the story of modern evangelism. Born in Iowa during... Lees meer

Humane Insight

Courtney R Baker

• Hardcover | Engels | New Black Studies
• In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Courtne... Lees meer

Front Pages, Front Lines

• Paperback | Engels | The History of Media and Communication
• Suffragists recognized that the media played an essential role in the women's suffrage movement and the public's understanding of it. From parades to ... Lees meer

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Michael Hicks

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in American Life
• A first-of-its-kind history, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir tells the epic story of how an all-volunteer group founded by persecuted religious outcasts g... Lees meer

No Votes for Women

Susan Goodier

• Paperback | Engels | Women in American History
• No Votes for Women explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State by delving into the stories of women who opposed the ex... Lees meer

The Taco Truck

Robert Lemon

• Paperback | Engels
• Icons of Mexican cultural identity and America's melting pot ideal, taco trucks have transformed cityscapes from coast to coast. The taco truck radiat... Lees meer

The Disney Animation Renaissance

Mary E Lescher

• Hardcover | Engels
• Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida opened in Orlando at the dawn of the Disney Renaissance. As a member of the crew, Mary E. Lescher witnessed the ... Lees meer

New German Dance Studies

• Paperback | Engels
• New German Dance Studies offers fresh histories and theoretical inquiries that resonate across fields of the humanities. Sixteen essays range from eig... Lees meer

Kelly Reichardt

Katherine Fusco, Nicole Seymour

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Film Directors
• Kelly Reichardt's 1994 debut River of Grass established her gift for a slow-paced realism that emphasizes the ongoing, everyday nature of emergency. H... Lees meer

Fe-Lines

Norman R Shapiro

• Hardcover | Engels
• The French have long had a love affair with the cat, expressed through centuries of poetry portraying the animal's wit and wonder. Norman R. Shapiro l... Lees meer

Video Rhetorics

John Nelson, G R Boynton

• The aim of this book is to teach us how to better understand political ads (telespots) by attuning ourselves to their video rhetoric--their themes and... Lees meer

The Lost Art of Declaring War

Brien Hallett

• Paperback | Engels
• Historically, it has been assumed that war is violence and declarations of war are simply public announcements that serve to initiate combat. Brien Ha... Lees meer

Queer and Trans Migrations

• Paperback | Engels | Dissident Feminisms
• More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBT... Lees meer

The Sexual Politics of Empire

Erin L Durban

• Hardcover | Engels | Nwsa / Uip First Book Prize
• Winner in the LAMMY Awards - Lambda Literary Awards, LGBTQ+ Studies category Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights move... Lees meer

Gender in Modernism

Bonnie Kime Scott

• Paperback | Engels
• Gender in Modernism, conceived as a sequel to the now-classic volume The Gender of Modernism, selects the best from the fifteen years of feminist lite... Lees meer

Edward Yang

John Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Film Directors
• Having largely given up on a career in film, Edward Yang had been working as a computer engineer for several years when he saw Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath... Lees meer