Thirty-six artists, scientists, and renowned writers go wild about the virtues, pleasure, and importance of dirt!
Examines how artists questioned the ways in which "the people" were ideologically figured by the commercial mass media. Operating at the intersection between art history and media studies, this title connects early video art and the rise of the media screen in gallery-based art to discussions about participation and more.
Orit Rozin focuses on the construction of citizenship in Israel during the state's first decade, revealing the historical circumstances and the pressures that limited the freedoms of Israeli citizens and, as well as showing the capacity of the bureaucracy for flexibility and of the populace for protest against unjust and humiliating measures.
An invaluable introduction to the arts and sciences for students, parents, and anyone curious about the nature of a liberal education
An extensive study of fictional representations of Latin America in North American literature
Compelling account of the abolitionist's life, legal battles, and legacy
Intriguing biography of Eliezer Grynbaum, the communist Jewish Kapo whose controversy-ridden story spans Europe and Israel
A comprehensive reinterpretation of the development of Hebrew and Israeli literature against the backdrop of the Zionist ideal
Wang Wei was one of the most celebrated poets of China's Tang Dynasty (618-907). An influential painter and practitioner of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, many of his poems contain concise and evocative descriptions of nature whose elegant minimalism offers subtle expression of a transcendence from everyday life. While this purity of poetic expression is what Wang Wei's reputation is built upon, he lived a courtly life of highs and lows in a tumultuous era, suffering demotions and exile, imprisonment and rehabilitation, all of which are evidenced in his verse. Wang Wei's poems grapple with the trappings of worldly life and the quest for enlightenment, painting a complex picture of both his psyche and his Chan discipline. Laughing Lost in the Mountains includes translations of poems running the spectrum of Wang Wei's subjects, as well as an extensive introduction that sheds light on Wang Wei's craft, spirituality, and historical context.
A new set of stories about the fabled Fort William Henry, based on forensics and archeological finds
A diverse range of essays, new discoveries and book reviews on the latest research for interest to ceramic scholars.
Staging Brazil: Choreographies of Capoeira is the first in-depth study of the processes of legitimization and globalization of capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian combat game practiced today throughout the world.
Joy Harjo's play Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light is the centerpiece of this collection that includes essays and interviews concerning the roots and the reaches of contemporary Native Theater.
Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and the United States.
In this persuasive study, Tracy McMullen draws on philosophy, psychology, musicology, performance studies, and popular music studies in order to analyze the rise of obsessively precise live musical reenactments in the United States at the turn of the millennium.
In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy.
Artist Ai Weiwei, at risk to his own safety, gathered the names of these children, and their names are the subject of this book. This act of poetic translation is both a heartbreaking tribute to people whose names have been erased, and a healing meditation on how language suggests a path forward.
The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist black man, Geter charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and the heartbreak of trying to feel at home in a country that does not recognize you.
Flowers Cracking Concrete is the first in-depth study of the forty-year career of Eiko & Koma-two artists from Japan who have lived and worked in New York City since the mid-1970s, establishing themselves as innovative and influential modern and postmodern dancers.
The Christopher Small Reader is the final book in Christopher Small's legacy as a composer, pianist, teacher, provocateur, and influential outsider in classical music studies. It brings his previously published work together with key excerpts from his three books-Musicking; Music, Society, Education; and Music of the Common Tongue.
Frog Hollow: Stories from an American Neighborhood is a collection of colorful historical vignettes of an ethnically diverse neighborhood just west of the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford.
Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs how people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds.
Sandra Simonds charts the formations and deformations of the social and political through the observations of the poem's speakers, interspersed with the language of social media, news reports, political speech, and the dialogue of friends, children, strangers, and politicians.
Sarah M. Ross brings together scholarship on Jewish liturgy, U.S. history, and musical ethnology to describe its roots and development, focusing on the work of songwriters such as Debbie Friedman and Linda Hirschhorn.
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