Selmi Elisabetta Selmi & Evangelista Stefano Evangelista 
Poetics of Decadence in Fin-de-Siecle Italy [PDF ebook] 
Degeneration and Regeneration in Literature and the Arts

This book will highlight the motivation for coherent optics in access and introduce digital coherent optical system in detail, including advanced modulation formats, architecture of modulation and de …

Spinning the Child examines music for children on records, radio and television by assessing how ideals of entertainment, education, ‘the child’ and ‘the family’ have been communicated through folk m …

Interior design can be considered a discipline that ranks among the worlds of art, design, and architecture and provides the cognitive tools to operate innovatively within the spaces of the contempor …

Shaped by Japanese Music is an in-depth analysis of the musical world of an individual performer, composer, and teacher. Using an ethnographic approach, this study situates musical analysis in the co …

Brazilian Popular Music, or M‘sica Popular Brasileira (MPB), developed in the mid 1960s as a response to the re-thinking of Brazilian national identity following the establishment of the post-1964 mi …

Sara Manasseh brings a significant, but less widely-known, Jewish repertoire and tradition to the attention of both the Jewish community (Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Oriental) and the wider global community …

The first full-length and comprehensive study of the illustrations of Sterne”s work, this book explores the ability of Sterne”s texts to inspire the visual imagination. It helps to explain why scor …

Punk Playthings Provocations for 21st Century Game Makers ’Punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creativ …

A one-act play set in New York, 1960 on Easter Day. Themes of resurrection and recovery are woven through this play about a working-class, recovering alcoholic and her girlfriend, and their visit wit …

This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the European Science Foundation’s PALATI …