"Michael Broyles shows how three key decades--the 1840s, the 1920s, and the 1950s--shaped America's musical future. In each, new styles of music combined with emerging technologies, from the locomotive to the transistor radio, to have lasting impact on our cultural landscape. All too often, these new developments revealed racial fault lines running through the business of music in an echo of American society as a whole. Through the music of each decade...

"His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church bells tolled to celebrate the war's end. Korda's dramatic...

"In this work, Terry Lindvall ventures into the muddy and dangerous realm of religious satire, chronicling its evolution from the biblical wit and humour of the Hebrew prophets through the Roman Era and the Middle Ages all the way up to the present.

". . . a comprehensive collection of work relating to literary theory from major philosophers ranging from Plato to Mary Anne Warren. These works-selected from a wide geographical, chronological, and thematic range-have been curated and edited into a readable foundational text for students and instructors alike to use"--Provided by publisher.

"Introducing 90 of the world's greatest poetic works, from the epics of the ancient world through Japanese haikus and Renaissance sonnets to modernist masterpieces, this accessible guide sets each work in its historical, social, cultural and literary context."--

Presents a guide to the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, with biographical backgrounds of each playwright and a synopsis and commentary on each of their surviving plays, and includes an outline of Aristotle's theories on drama.

"Celebrate Robert Frost's 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems-with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock the magic of his language. In short accompanying commentaries, Parini illuminates the stylistic and imaginative features of each of the poems, drawing in biographical material from Frost's life to provide further context"--

"How are Black artists, activists, and pedagogues wielding acts of rebellion, activism, and solidarity to precipitate change? How have contemporary performances impacted Black cultural, social, and political struggles? What are the ways in which these acts and artists engage varied Black identities and explore shared histories? Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance explores these urgent questions to illuminate the relationship between performance,...

Nam June Paik was a pillar of the avant-garde in the 20th century, widely regarded as the father of video art, who coined the phrase "Electronic Superhighway," and is arguably the most famous Korean artist in modern history. Features readings of the artist's writings.

"From 1642 to 1660, live theater was banned in England. The market for printed books, however--including plays--flourished. How did this period, when plays could be read but not performed, affect the way drama was written thereafter? As Katherine Mannheimer demonstrates, the plays of the following decades exhibited a distinct self-consciousness of drama's status as a singular art form that straddled both page and stage. Scholars have commented on...