Boydell Brewer: 336 books
Sects & Social Disorder
Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Nigerian society has long been perceived as divided along religious lines, between Muslims and Christians, but alongside this there is an equally important polarization within the Muslim population in beliefs, rituals and sectarian allegiance. This book highlights the crucial issue of intra-Muslim...
Performative Analysis
Reimagining Music Theory for Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This book proposes a model for understanding the musical work in which both analysis-based and performance-based modes of interpretation are integral to the work. Jeffrey Swinkin explores the important role that performance plays in elucidating a work and argues for the performative nature of music...
Ira Aldridge
The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852 deals in depth with the later experiences of one of the modern world's first black classical actors as he toured throughout the United Kingdom impressing audiences with his virtuosity and versatility as an interpreter not only of tragic and comic black roles...
Hanns Eisler's Art Songs
Arguing with Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler also set nineteenth-century German poetry to music that both absorbs and disturbs the Lieder tradition. This book traces Eisler's art songs (German: Kunstlieder) through twentieth-century political crises from World War I...
Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas
An Annotated German-Language Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the German history...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The essays in this volume offer rich and diverse perspectives on the encounter between Indigenous music and digital technologies. They explore how digital media -- whether on CD, VCD, the Internet, mobile technology, or in the studio -- have transformed and become part of the fabric of Indigenous...
Rethinking Hanslick
Music, Formalism, and Expression
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Rethinking Hanslick: Music, Formalism, and Expression is the first extensive English-language study devoted to Eduard Hanslick--a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life. Bringing together eminent scholars from several disciplines, this volume examines Hanslick's contribution to the aesthetics...
Tatort Germany
The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. During the 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective...
Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature
Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In recent years, historians have revealed the many ways in which German women supported National Socialism-as teachers, frontline auxiliaries, and nurses, as well as in political organizations. In mainstream culture, however, the women of the period are still predominantly depicted as the victims...
Interconnections
Gender and Race in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary work by historians of African American women as well as scholars of feminist and critical race theory, bridging the gap between well-developed theories of race, gender, and power and the practice of historical research. It examines how racial...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Now published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House under the Society's editorship, the Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of the life and work of Bertolt Brecht and of aspects of theater and literature that were of particular interest to him, especially the...
by L. Stephen Jacyna, Stephen T. Casper
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, multiple sclerosis, stroke: all are neurological illnesses that create dysfunction, distress, and disability. With their symptoms ranging from impaired movement and paralysis to hallucinations and dementia, neurological patients present myriad puzzling disorders...
Technological Change in Modern Surgery
Historical Perspectives on Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Surgery is an ideal field for examining the processes of technological change in medicine. The contributors to this book go beyond the concept of innovation, with its focus on a single technology and its sharp dichotomy of acceptance versus rejection. Instead they explore the historical contexts of...
Foundations of an African Civilisation
Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. This book seeks to apply a common methodology, utilising archaeology, art-history,...