Traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth century. The author identifies in Haydn and in early popular American musical cultures such a…
"‘Street Art of Resistance' … is a definitive collection of essays; it has case studies from Belfast to Egypt, art forms ranging from murals to tattoos, and insights that are both theoretical and practical. Street art is a way for suppressed voices to gain representation in the …
"This book problematizes the role of education in an increasingly mediatized world through the lenses of creativity, new media, and consumerism. At the core of the issue, the author argues, creativity in art education is being co-opted to serve the purposes of current economic t…
Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts
"This is an imaginative, provocative collection of essays that not only teaches us about Kierkegaard, but it teaches us to be better, more well-informed readers of him. At its heart is the often understated, or barely stated, sense of Kierkegaard as a religious thinker--disrupti…