Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Renewal as Discourse and Discourse as Renewal in Native Northwestern California -- 2. Traditional Ways and Contemporary Vitality: Absaroke/Crow -- 3. Rebalancing the World in the Contradictions of History: Creek/Muskogee -- 4. Wiping the T…
Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area of digital game p…
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Perspectives on Swing -- 2 Interlude in B Flat: The Search for Identity -- 3 Beginning the Beguine: ucce and Remorse -- 4 War and Peace -- 5 Cinderella and Other Stories -- 6 Concerto for Clarinet: The Artistry of Shaw -- 7 'S Wonderful: Artie S…
An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present Marcel Duchamp famously championed a "non-retinal" visual art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty. In the Blink of an Ear is the first book to ask why the sonic arts did not experience a parallel turn…
"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock is the first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. More than 50 years into its life and we still ask - what is rock music, why is it studied, and how does it work, both as music and as cultural activity? Thi…
"This book dispels popular understandings of Buddhism as a religion that emphasizes the renunciation of worldly goods, by examining how Buddhist temples and the monastic community (the sangha) require tangible resources in order to sustain themselves. The first book to focus on …
"Explores the theoretically fertile concept of the formless as articulated by modern literature and visual arts, and argues that instead of an elimination of form the formless stands for an affective operation based on both aesthetically and speculative generative deformation of…
"A wide-ranging overview of current research on music videos and audiovisual elements of popular music"--
"A survey of key areas related to digital music and the internet with a focus on how technology impacts the relationship between music and its listeners"--
