Both intellect and musicality contribute to his cogent observations, and his literary style is as eloquent as the music he describes.
Contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive... Læs mere
The list of extant music includes new pieces discovered within the last decade and provides new historical context for the instrument and its role in eighteenth-century French culture.
How Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s internalized Soviet ways of looking at the world and living their everyday lives.
-International Philosophical QuarterlyThis volume presents the classic statements in semiotics and touches on a vast set of problems and themes-philosophical, aesthetic, literary, cultural, biological, and anthropological.
A dramatic account of the UN's struggle over how best to understand severe inequities in the global economy.
Focuses on how the unintended consequences of colonialism lead to the creation of an African middle class in Zimbabwe. This title shows... Læs mere
Critiques Eurocentrism in the prevailing art-culture system and reexamines the culture wars within the context of Hollywood, and the dominant U.S. cultural milieu.
Helps discover the piano works of one of the century's most interesting minds.
Here architecture embodies modern ideas and social identities engendered by the encounter of Africans with others in the Indian Ocean world.
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This latest philosophical text by John Sallis is inspired by the work of contemporary Chinese painter Cao Jun. It carries out a series of philosophical reflections on nature, art, and music by taking up Cao Jun's art and thought, with a focus on questions of the elemental.