Opéra-Comique
Opéra-comique, a French genre not always comic in nature—the most famous example, Bizet’s Carmen, is a tragedy—reflected the cultural life of France. This sourcebook details its forgotten composers and operas, providing a way into a changing age.
For the first time in English, this volume presents three decades of research on Bol’shoy Yakor’ I, a key Late Pleistocene site in Eastern Siberia. Through detailed study of lithic production and hunting, it reveals the seasonal cycles of prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
The first dictionary on education and assessment for translator and interpreter training. It offers in-depth knowledge, defining key terms on how to train and assess performance. A valuable resource for researchers, educators, practitioners, and students.
This volume explores Socratic rationalism, the major alternatives to it within political philosophy, and the potential impact of its return in contemporary times. It takes a multifaceted approach with contributions from scholars in the fields of philosophy and political science.
English Studies in Indian Universities
Tasildar examines the development of curricula in English in Indian universities vis-a-vis the needs of second language learners studying in Special English programmes. He also reflects on how globalization has strengthened the connection between English and employment.
Rizas approaches middle class politics from a historical perspective, looking at its progression since the early 1900s. He investigates the role of the middle classes in the evolution of mass politics in the West and the loss of middle class purchasing power after the 2008 Crash.
Navigating African Biblical Hermeneutics
This collection interrogates the biblical text from Africana contexts and Diasporas. It tackles issues of wealth, power, gender, sexuality, HIV/AIDS, and mass violence, offering vital insights for anyone committed to Africana-conscious biblical studies.
As governments worldwide innovate to provide better public services, this collection of essays highlights public service theory and practice. It is an excellent, updated resource for scholars, students and practitioners in public administration.
This volume focuses on how music and arts in the global Africana world are used for political and social change. It covers diverse topics from the African thematics of jazz to protest movements in Senegal and Nigeria and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The Flaneur in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Vila-Cabanes explores a great array of texts, making an essential contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the prehistory and history of the British flaneur from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a special focus on the nineteenth century.
There are some figures in modern history who stand out not just for their amoral conduct but their cruelty. Sangster explores the life of the notorious Beria, Stalin’s henchman, offering historical context, biographical detail and philosophical analysis in the process.
Why is music censored? It’s not always about the lyrics. This volume examines music censorship from a global perspective, arguing that the reasons for bans often lie beyond verbal messages and in the complex historical, structural, and emotional interpretations of sound itself.
This volume explores words, the building blocks of language, from multifaceted perspectives. Bringing together linguistics, neuroscience, and psycholinguistics, it tackles key questions on how to define, measure, and teach vocabulary.
Pagan Mysticism
How do the world’s religions understand the mystical, and how does paganism offer something different? This volume explores the re-emergence of pagan thought, a nature-based spirituality that challenges the obsolete and unlocks new forms of transpersonal emancipation.
Beyond its story, what makes Nineteen Eighty-Four a masterpiece? This book conducts a semiotic analysis to uncover the novel’s hidden structures, revealing how Orwell masterfully constructed its powerful and enigmatic layers of meaning.
Contemporary Art and Community Altruism in Oaxaca
Pyatt relates a longitudinal participant observation and analysis of the behaviour of the Oaxacan art community in Mexico, focusing on the cultural production, interaction and collective action of its members as an integrated sector of civil society.
A Mashup World
Hybridity is a hallmark of our age. In our new “post-reality,” the internet fuels the spread of fake news, where make-believe events have real-life effects. This book provides the analysis needed to differentiate this manipulated non/reality from authentic stories.
New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
This book investigates the explosion of women’s writing in post-socialist Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. It explores why this writing has become so prominent, whether writers see their gender as a burden or empowering, and its links to nationality and class.
Music Glocalization
The first major book to apply the timely notion of “glocality” to music, it offers a distinctive theoretical perspective and advanced insights into how music is impacted by the interaction of global forces with local conditions.
Transnational Resilience and Change
This global collection explores the strategies Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities use to preserve their identities and cultures. It examines cultural maintenance but also takes a critical stance on the implications of cultural isolation for these groups.
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