Balint Andras Varga makes available here for the first time in English nineteen extended intervie...

Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress ...

Over the past twenty years an increasing number of researchers from various universities have bee...

Renowned organist, composer, and Paris Conservatory professor Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) was...

This essay collection examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and ...

The music of Claude Debussy has always been widely beloved by listeners and performers alike, mor...

During the first two decades of the twentieth century, demand for raw cotton in Europe, Asia, and...

Making use of archival documents, period newspapers, and oral interviews, African Police and Sold...

This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and produc...

Described by his teacher Marcel Dupré as 'a phenomenon without equal in the history of the contem...

The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World is the first book to chart the origins and evolut...

Through a critical examination of the Mau Mau oath used to initiate and unite fighters, The Power...

Arthur Hartmann (1881-1956), a celebrated violinist who performed over a thousand recitals throug...

European public health was a playing field for deeply contradictory impulses throughout the twent...

Understanding Purpose is an exploration of the central concept of natural purpose [Naturzweck] in...

Since its original publication in 1983, Russian Theoretical Thought in Music has become the stand...

Twenty-five years after its 1990 publication, Richard A. Meckel's Save the Babies remains widely ...

In the seventeenth century, like today, the guitar was often used for chord strumming ('battuto' ...

Many societies worldwide possess oral histories and long memories, reaching back many centuries, ...

This study of more than two thousand years of African social history weaves together evidence fro...

The New York Composers' Forum was a weekly series of new-music concerts sponsored by the Federal ...

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to t...

Far from being a long-silent echo of medieval religion, modern monastery music is instead a resou...

This book explores the processes of state-building and the nature of political power in France du...

The Leipzig middle-class evolved with the cooperation and gratitude of an extravagant, greedy, an...

How do we know what notes a composer intended in a given piece? -- how those notes should be play...

Toward the end of his life Franz Liszt maintained extensive correspondence with two women who wer...

With essays written by leading performer-scholars, The Clarinet offers unique perspectives on the...

Modern composers as diverse as Béla Bartók, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, and John Cage have c...

In 1810 Edinburgh, the orphaned Scottish-Indian schoolgirl Jane Cumming alleged that her two scho...

What makes the compositions of Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin...

Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works su...

Sara Levy née Itzig (1761-1854), a salonnière, skilled performing musician, and active participan...

George Rochberg, American Composer is the first comprehensive study devoted to tracing and puttin...

Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the ro...

Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von Bülo...

Throughout history, tuberculosis has been at or near the top of the list of infectious diseases t...

Tuberculosis was once the feared 'White Plague'. Today, with sanatoria closed and a battery of dr...

Ferruccio Busoni is most widely known today as the composer of such works as the Second Violin So...

The modern concept of stress is commonly traced to the physiologist, Hans Selye. Selye viewed str...

While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it...

Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a ...

Recent years have seen renewed interest in the historical study of labor in Africa. Unlike those ...

Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces explores how...

This book analyzes how indigenous political power structures in Nigeria survived both the constri...

Examines the life and compositional oeuvre of prolific eighteenth century musician, composer, and...

In the annals of music history, few figures have dominated the discussion of virtuosity as much a...

In recent decades, there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in African-styled traditions...