Choral Singing
What role does choral activity play in the construction of social and musical meaning? This anthology addresses questions like these from a wide range of disciplines, contributing to a transdisciplinary discussion about the origins, functions, and meanings of choral singing.
This edited volume offers an overview of the complexity of the visual rhetoric of violence, discussing both fictional works, including films and novels, and non-fictional genres, such as news media, showing how such expressions of violence have assumed diverse narrative forms.
Governing Sex, Building the Nation
Exploring the sexual politics of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan, this book focuses on the politicisation of prostitution and its role in postcolonial nationhood. It uncovers the interlinkages between colonialism, prostitution and nationalism in East Asia.
T. S. Eliot’s year in Paris was a decisive turning point. This volume reconsiders the deep impact of French and European art and thought on his development, moving beyond accepted narratives to open up new and unexpected veins of inquiry.
Essays on Gianni Vattimo
This monograph, focused on the interrelated themes of religion, ethics and the history of ideas, offers a critically constructive approach to defending Gianni Vattimo against some of his more strident critics, but nevertheless poses some questions of its own.
This collection raises awareness of ways of healthy ageing that are facilitated by different forms of physical activity and exercise, and imparts knowledge about recent advances in recreation and wellbeing initiatives that will benefit the academic community and the wider public.
Interdisciplinarity in World History
This book argues for interdisciplinarity in history, rejecting its claimed autonomy. The chapters stress that historical research must be open to complex issues, collaborating with other disciplines to answer questions that history cannot tackle on its own.
The Trinidad Dougla
Through detailed case studies, Regis investigates the search for personal identity of Trinidad’s Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, as they find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation.
A New Social Question
Bringing together papers presented at a conference on “Capitalism and Socialism: Utopia, Globalization and Revolution”, this volume provides analyses of how recent events such as the economic crisis have impacted upon societies across the world.
This book provides new scholarly thinking on the convergence of Christianity and Igbo Traditional Religion. Written by Igbo scholars, it offers unique case studies on their intersection, serving as a vital manual for students, researchers, and interfaith dialogue.
Given increasing interest in lexical issues in second language acquisition studies in recent years, and the importance of words to every instance of communication, this volume concentrates on vocabulary in written language, with a particular focus on academic settings.
‘I, Me, Mine?’
Skrimsjö reconsiders perceptions of record collecting and collectors, through a discussion of existing stereotypes surrounding such practices, and explores how such collectors view themselves and their practices.
Knowledge in Action
With authorship from community partners and universities, this book highlights the challenges of university-community engagement and outlines how Australian universities defy these obstacles through innovative projects that create positive socio-economic change.
A Social History of Rural Ireland in the 1950s
Galvin offers a brief history of Crotta Great House, County Kerry, Ireland, where Horatio Herbert Kitchener spent his boyhood years. Part memoir, part social history, it creates a snapshot of a moment in Ireland’s recent past embedded within a broader historical backdrop.
This collection of articles by musicologists, performers, sound engineers, and educators explores leading ideas in music technologies and the cognition of classical and contemporary music.
Women in Exile and Alienation
After World War II exile and alienation became two of the most prominent themes in world literature. Singh shows how this is reflected in the portrayal of the tortured psyche of sensitive women, unable to share their feelings, in the work of Margaret Laurence and Anita Desai.
Culture-blind Shakespeare
This collection of essays offers a plethora of responses to Shakespeare by both Western and Eastern critics, indicating that the Bard crosses all nationalities and deserves to be defined as a global writer.
Understanding Meaning and World
Chakraborty explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the viewpoint of phenomenology. His approach is distinctive in the sense that it formulates a reconciliation between both sides by inventing an internalistic-externalism view.
The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography
This collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and medicine, whereby medicine has afforded pornography great legitimacy and even authority.
This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.
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