Edition: 1
Publication date: 1995-10-11
Dewey code: 305.906642
List Price: $110.00
Price: $116.89
Review The Queening of America / Routledge:The host of Hollywood Squares asks Paul Lynde, "Why do bikers wear leather?" "Because chiffon wrinkles so easily," Lynde quips. Since at least the end of the nineteenth century, gay culture - its humor, its icons, its desires - has been alive and sometimes even visible in the midst of straight American society. David Van Leer puts forward here a series of reading that aim to identify what he calls the "queening" of America, a process by which "rhetorics and situations specific to homosexual culture are presented to a general readership as if culturally neutral. " In his recinsiderations of the all-American Damn Yankees or the gay adult classics of Patrick Dennis (Auntie Mame, Little Me), Van Leer overturns simplistic notions of camp as merely a humorous exaggeration of straight culture. The Queening of America examines how the invisibility of gay male writing, especially in the popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s, facilitated the crossing of gay motifs in straight culture. Van Leer then critiques some current models of making homosexuality visible (the packaging of Joe Orton, the theories of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the rise of gay studies), before concluding more optimistically on the possible alliances between gay culture and other minority discourses.
Creator: James Chater
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 782.43092
List Price: $120.00
Price: $102.93
Review Luca Marenzio: The Career of a Musician Between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation / Ashgate Publishing:Regarded by his contemporaries as the leading madrigal composer of his time, Luca Marenzio was an important figure in 16th-century Italian music. This English translation of Marco Bizzarini's life and work of Marenzio provides provides insights into the composer's influence and place in history, and features a bibliography and an updated list of works. Women play a decisive role as dedicatees of Marenzio's madrigals and in influencing the way in which they were performed. Bizzarini examines in detail the influence of both female and male patrons and performers on Marenzio's music and career, including his connections with the confraternity of SS Trinita. Dedications were also a political tool, as the book reveals. Many of Marenzio's dedications were made at the request of his employer Cardinal d'Este who wanted to please his French allies. Bizzarini examines these extra-musical dimensions to Marenzio's work and re-examines the composer's fall from grace under the more austere administration of Clement VIII.
Publication date: 2002-06-02
Review Linda Kearns: A Revolutionary Irish Woman / Drumlin Publications:
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 782.1092
List Price: $120.00
Price: $103.03
Review Michael William Balfe: His Life and His English Operas (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) / Ashgate Publishing:Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was one of the most successful composers of English opera in the mid-nineteenth century. During his lifetime he enjoyed an international reputation and worked with some of the leading singers of the time, including Jenny Lind, Malibran and Grisi. Drawing on previously unused source materials such as letters, legal documents and playbills, this biography of Balfe and study of his English operas overturns many of the previously accepted 'facts' of the composer's lifestyle. Using London as his base, Dublin-born Balfe spent long periods in Paris and travelled widely in Europe. William Tyldesley discusses the continental influences evident in Balfe's operas and offers suggestions as to the draw that Paris held for the composer. Far from leading a fairly prosperous and unexceptional life, Balfe is shown to have found himself in financial straits on more than one occasion, and to have employed possibly unethical means of extracting himself from them.
Publication date: 2003-06
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $120.00
Price: $102.96
Review Parry's Creative Process (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain) / Ashgate Publishing:Of the several unfortunate images surrounding the composer Hubert Parry (1848-1918), some of the most damaging are those connected with his approach to composition itself. In particular, it has been suggested that Parry possessed a great facility, and that consequently he was not critical about the pieces which he composed. After discussing some of Parry's reception problems in general, Michael Allis explores in detail the various compositional stages of the composer's work from initial sketches and drafts through to editing made in the light of rehearsal and performance, supplemented by pertinent details from Parry's correspondence and diary entries. Using sketch material and discussion of paper types, including some previously unpublished sketches, to help resolve problems of chronology and to identify projected early works which haven't been discussed in detail before, Allis provides a different portrait of Parry to the one promulgated by critics from the 19th-century to the present day. Parry emerges as a composer who often struggled long and hard over the creation of a new piece, approaching all stages of the creative process of composition with a high degree of criticism and professionalism.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-02
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $115.00
Price: $104.02
Review Daniel Belknap (1771-1815): The Collected Works (Music of the New American Nation) / Routledge:Daniel Belknap was a farmer, mechanic, and singing-master in Framingham, Massachusetts, who compiled four sacred and one secular tunebooks. These featured his own sacred compositions as well as those by other New England composers. While Belknap was not as flamboyant, prolific, nor as innovative as his contemporaries, he nevertheless provided fitting and eloquent religious and social music for his own and neighboring communities.
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 782.00922
List Price: $102.95
Price: $102.94
Review Five Centuries of Women Singers (Music Reference Collection) / Praeger Publishers:Five Centuries of Women Singers explores the careers of twenty singers from the late sixteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In addition to personal information, the stories of these singers tell a great deal about contemporary musical life, about musical and dramatic ideals of the time, and about performance practice. The experiences of the singers also reveal much about the business of music -how women were dealt with by teachers, impresarios, composers, and audiences-and the perseverance and pluck that were and are crucial ingredients of a successful career. The twenty singers were selected on the basis of their contribution to and influence on the art of singing, their significance in the history of performance, what their careers reveal about the life of a professional female musician, and finally for the originality of their achievements. All of the singers included reached the pinnacle of their art with persistence, ingenuity, and unsurpassed musicianship.
Publication date: 1989-04
Dewey code: 509.17671
Price: $60.00
Review Explorations in Islamic Science (Islamic Futures and Policy Studies) / Mansell:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1959
Review Fe-male / Sandmar House:
Publication date: 1998-02
Dewey code: 507.11073
List Price: $44.00
Price: $103.27
Review Feminist Science Education (Athene Series) / Teachers College Press:This volume presents a case for liberatory science education from a feminist perspective. Based on a two-year teacher-research study, "Feminist Science Education" questions and challenges how power and knowledge relationships position teachers, students and science with and against one another in the classroom. Using stories about life in and out of the classroom, this book describes the impact that exploring this situated nature of science and teaching has for transforming science education.
Creator: Patrick A. Wayman
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-02-28
Dewey code: 520.92
List Price: $128.00
Price: $102.40
Review Remembering Edith Alice Müller / Springer:Presents the recollections of friends, students, & colleagues of Edith Alice Muller, who was the first woman to hold the responsibility of the IAU General Secretary form 1976 to 1979. She is primarily known for her fundamental work in solar physics. DLC: Muller, Edith Alice.
Creator: Suzanne Robinson
Publication date: 2003-01
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $120.00
Price: $102.93
Review Michael Tippett: Music and Literature / Ashgate Publishing:One of the great composers of the 20th century, Michael Tippett found inspiration for his music amongst literary works that spanned all ages and many nations. His numerous settings of poetry, his several large works for voice and orchestra and the five operas that he wrote testify to his impressive command of literary history. The texts of these works are densely allusive, self-consciously interweaving quotations and half-quotations. The essays that make up this volume are specially commissioned interpretations of the relationships between music and literature that permeate and characterize Tippett's music and his writings. Indeed the first chapter in the volume is Tippett's own essay "The Relation of Autobiographical Experience to the Created Work of Art" which guides the reader through his literary loves. This is followed by essays from an international group of contributors who examine such topics as Tippett's main literary writings and the insights these offer into his other creative work; the development of Tippett's musical borrowings; an analysis of the intertextuality of the texts of "A Child of our Time" and "King Priam"; the conjoining of words and music in "War Requiem", and music's ultimate transcendence of words in Tippett's vocal compositions. Other facet's of Tippett's career which are explored include the composer's persistent courtship of the BBC, and his time as Director of Music at Morley College. The volume concludes with an investigation of the reception of Tippett's music in Germany.
Edition: 1. ed
Publication date: 1992
Review Francisco Jose de Caldas, un peregrino de las ciencias (Cronicas de America) / Historia 16:
Publication date: 1993-01
Dewey code: 910
Price: $20.95
Review The First Munroist: Peter Drummond and Ian Mitchell / Ernest Pr:The Rev. A. E. Robertson, the first ascender of all the Munros, found the mountains totally free from the modern horde but the valleys peopled with hospitable folk in remote shielings. This book records his awakening to the obsession with ascending all the Scottish mountains over 3000 feet, and on to his completion.
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Review Newham Woman: Lives, Memories, Opinions / Eastside Community Heritage:
Creator: Simon Schaffer
Publication date: 1999-09-01
Dewey code: 509.409033
List Price: $105.00
Price: $104.97
Review The Sciences in Enlightened Europe / University Of Chicago Press:Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "enlightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academies and boisterous clubs are all given their due place in the landscape of enlightened Europe. The contributors examine the production of new disciplines through work with instruments and techniques; consider how institutions of public taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of Europe. Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain controversial today. Through careful scrutiny of how these values influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its sciences, this book gives us an entirely new sense of the Enlightenment.
Publication date: 2001-10-30
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $108.95
Price: $103.75
Review Vivian Fine: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:Despite having composed 140 major works of music, all while pursuing an active and productive career in teaching, Vivian Fine (1913-2000) has not, until now, been the subject of a significant biography or bibliography. Regarded by many as the finest American female composer of the 20th century, Fine enjoyed many accomplishments, which ranged from seeing her works first performed when she was only 18 years old, and witnessing one of her ballets choreographed by Martha Graham, to the achievement of international renown. Author Judith Cody, who knew Fine personally, provides here a complete bibliography of her compositions, guides to locating published and recorded editions, and analyses of various aspects of the work of this most important figure in American music. Interviews with Fine, combined with extensive research into secondary sources, allow Cody to give shape to a remarkable life, tracing the composer as she moved from child prodigy of Chicago to the center of the modern music and dance movements in New York City in the thirties, forties, and fifties. The result is both an exhaustive reference work and a vibrant portrait of an artist whose talents spanned decades, continents, and nearly every major creative development of the 20th century.
Publication date: 1973-06
Dewey code: 839.736
Price: $35.00
Review Life Letters and Osthumous Works of Fredrika Bremer (Women of Letters) / Ams Pr Inc:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-09-19
Dewey code: 016.78082
List Price: $120.00
Price: $103.70
Review Women In Music: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies) / Routledge:The study of women's activities and contributions in the creation and performance of music through the ages has attracted increasing numbers of scholars over the past two decades. Gender has additionally become a valid category in historical analysis and interpretation, as models for scholarship in the field of gender studies have been provided by Susan McClary and many others. Research tools have included biographical dictionaries devoted to women, along with numbers of entries in standard music-reference works. Individual bibliographies on time periods or genres, textbooks, and collections have been published; but no overarching, comprehensive annotated bibliography has yet appeared. This work fills that void. Compiled by a recognized leader in the field, the work will encompass major books, articles, and recordings published over the past five decades, encompassing a broad cross-section of contemporary thought. Each entry will include annotation along with a critical description of content. Animportant resource for music, gender, and women's studies, this book will undoubtedly find a home in all major college collections.
Publication date: 1993-12
Price: $209.30
Review Library of Famous Women / Blackbirch Pr Inc:
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