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This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), in three great works of modern literatur …

This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concep …

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19th century, including ceramics, metalwork, carpe …

"The Evolution of Sinn Fein" by Robert Mitchell. Henry provides a comprehensive assessment of Sinn Fein’s transforming journey, from its inception as a modern movement to its current positi …

First Published in 1984. This is the second volume in a series on musicology and related areas edited by F. Joseph Smith. Deciphering the specific social characteristics of music has long lagged behi …

Born in South Carolina, White spent his childhood as a lead boy for traveling blind bluesmen. In the early ”30s he moved to New York and became a popular blues star, then introduced folk-blues to a …

This groundbreaking survey of significant work and ideas focuses on imagemakers who have pushed beyond the boundaries of photography as a window on our material world. Through interviews with mo …

The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presen …

Unique in any Western language, this is an invaluable resource for the study of one of the world”s great theatrical forms. It includes essays by established experts on Kabuki as well as younger scho …

Should the arts receive public support? Can the arts survive in a modern capitalist society? Can economics shed light on the nature of public support, and whether there is a rationale for public inte …