The Sounds of Place. Music and the American Cultural Landscape, Paperback - Denise Von Glahn

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Denise Von GlahnNumber of pages: 384Collection: Music in American LifePublication date: 2021Dimen...

Reducere. China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship...

A unique book that combines a narrative history of pre-Civil War Knoxville, the war years and continuing construction of Fort Sanders, the failed a...

The first in a new series focussing in on a particular year and a genre within that year. One of the key years in the development of rock music - 1...

A lyrical, critically acclaimed account of the British landscape in writing and art from Beowulf to now.Illustrations: 80 Illustrations, unspecified

This Element demonstrates how landscape paintings of unfamiliar terrains required historical and geological subject matter to supply tactile associ...

Reducere. At Home in Our Sounds illustrates the effect jazz music had on the enormous social challenges Europe faced in the aftermath of World War I. Examini...

Reducere. The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works. "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art, " Robert Pinsky declares...

Reducere. The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works."Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art, " Robert Pinsky declares ...

An essential aide-memoire for those with an interest in all aspects of whisky. It is an invaluable guide for anyone wondering about the place-name ...

Broadening in scope, Part Two offers a revisionary reading of Empire and Otherness on the musical stage, and concludes with a consideration of the ...

Reducere. There truly is a "reason for the season, " and it has nothing to do with gifts, reindeer, shopping, or chocolate (well, maybe chocolate). But it is...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Edward S. CaseyNumber of pages: 392Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 254 x 179 x 20Cover type: P...

This introduction to the sounds of Korean is designed for English-speaking students with no prior knowledge of the language and includes online sou...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David HollanderForeword by: George RomeroIn the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

After losing her father to cancer and brother to suicide, a trauma psychologist shares new healing strategies for coping with extreme loss.Publishe...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Virgil MoorefieldNumber of pages: 168Collection: The MIT PressPublication date: 2010Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 11Co...

Reducere. "Solid history and archaeology combines with an understated call to preserve Bears Ears--all of it, not just a sliver." --KIRKUS REVIEWS For more t...

The Sounds of Language is an introductory guide to the linguistic study of speech sounds, which provides uniquely balanced coverage of both phonolo...

Reducere. An interactive board book adaptation of the beloved Dr. Seuss classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas!--featuring 12 different sounds! That's a nois...

This survey aimed to gain greater understanding of the past and present of Wadi Bani Kharus (Oman) through its tangible and intangible cultural her...

DescriptionA quirky Dungeons & Dragons-inspired adventure that will appeal to gamers and readers of the Mr. Lemoncello's Library series. What if yo...

New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790–2012 - Clare Anderson, Madhumita Mazumdar, Vishvajit Pa

Reducere. 1. In Chains 2. Hole to Feed 3. Wrong 4. Fragile Tension 5. Little Soul 6. In Sympathy 7. Peace 8. Come Back 9. Spacewalker 10. Perfect 11. Miles A...

This book illustrates how fusion-fission cycles actually constitute what we call "culture." Providing specific case studies, including cultural shi...

Fourteen essays map Canadian literary and cultural products via advances in digital humanities research methodologies.

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Beatrice DalovNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 234 x 22Cover type: HardbackRe...

Publisher: Merlin Unwin BooksIllustration(s): 60 Halftones, colorNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 267 x 222 x 17Cover type: Ha...

Author and undertaker Todd Harra shares a fascinating and oft-surprising exploration of the history and meaning of funeral rituals.Publisher: Sound...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

This landmark, first-of-its-kind anthology presents a groundbreaking perspective on women's writing about the natural world and our place within it...

Reducere. When it was first published in 2003, Rebel Musics sought to explore how musical activism resonates as resistance to the dominant culture, and how p...

An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores th...

Provides researchers and graduate students in sociolinguistics with a theory of landscape affect as a linguistic and semiotic phenomenon. It is als...

What is the relationship between music and culture? Including contributions from scholars of music, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and ...

Compares how photographers in Norway and the US represented the environment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when once-remote wilde...

Reducere. The first edition of There Was a Fire is a National Jewish Book Award FinalistThis book is about the power of memory, the human need for narrative,...

Reducere. "Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one's identity and worldview, " Enrique Salmon writes in Eating the L...

This book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era produced w...