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Lasoń-Kochańska, Grażyna. Gender w literaturze dla dzieci i młodzieży: Wzorce płaciowe i kobiecy : repertuar topiczny = Gender in literature for children and young people : gender roles and topical feminine repertoire. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pomorskiej w Słupsku, 2012.

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Vulto, Renée. Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period. Amsterdam University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463727396.

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Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period sheds new light on the intertwined history of music and politics by exploring Dutch political songs. In the emotionally charged climate of the Dutch revolutionary period at the close of the eighteenth century, songs became a powerful medium, speaking directly to people’s bodies to engage them in political action. Emphasizing the performative nature of the songs and the interplay between imagination and embodied expression in singing practices, this book shows how beyond merely creating communities, the songs were also instrumental

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Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos. Queer Festivals. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982741.

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To what extent is queer anti-identitarian? And how is it experienced by activists at the European level? At queer festivals, activists, artists and participants come together to build new forms of sociability and practice their ideals through anti-binary and inclusive idioms of gender and sexuality. These ideals are moreover channelled through a series of organisational and cultural practices that aim at the emergence of queer as a collective identity. Through the study of festivals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Copenhagen, and Oslo, Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transn

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Yunhwa Rao, Nancy. Aesthetics, Repertoire, Roles, and Playbills. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040566.003.0005.

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This chapter provides a survey of Cantonese opera, its connection to other genres of Chinese opera, its music, repertoire, vocal style, accompanying instruments, etc. Because the performance practice changed over time, this chapter draws from a wealth of primary and secondary documents to offer a working knowledge of Cantonese opera as it was practiced in North American during the 1920s. Over 1000 Chinese playbills from San Francisco, New York City, Vancouver, Seattle and Havana between 1917 and 1929 provide the foundation for understanding the popular repertoire during the time. In addition,

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Phelan, Helen. Repertoires of Belonging. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190672225.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 explores the act of singing through the lens of culturally specific repertoires. The emphasis on repertoire in ritual contexts often leads to an ideologically driven understanding of the role of singing. Focusing on the body as the instrument of the singer through a theoretical engagement with somatics is proposed as a useful counter to the appropriation of sung repertoire for ideological positioning. An examination of an Easter Triduum liturgy in contemporary Limerick, as well as a historical exploration of the role of chant in the modern liturgical movement, leads to a proposal tha

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Goetze, Mary. Repertoire as Pedagogy. Edited by Frank Abrahams and Paul D. Head. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199373369.013.18.

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Including music from a wide range of cultures calls for choral directors to rethink the common practices employed in most choral rehearsals, and to open themselves to a world of new procedures within rehearsals and performances. Since few directors are also ethnomusicologists, these new practices may also impact the role the director plays in the rehearsals. This chapter challenges directors to define their reasons for including vocal music from outside the western art tradition. Directors should consider alternative processes for finding repertory, presenting it to the ensemble, and sharing i

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Egeberg, Morten, and Jarle Trondal. Organization Structure, Demographic Background, and Actual Behaviour. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825074.003.0004.

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This chapter offers a ‘critical case’ on the influence of organizational structure in public governance. By examining organizational members who have ambiguous and temporary affiliations to organizations, it shows how organizational structure trumps demographic background when explaining decision-making behaviour. Survey and interview data on temporary staff in the European Commission support an organizational perspective in two ways. First, temporary Commission officials tend to evoke a tripartite representational repertoire consisting of departmental, epistemic, and supranational roles. Seco

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Bayley, Amanda. Cross-cultural collaborations with the Kronos Quartet. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199355914.003.0007.

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By examining the creative and interactive processes that take place between members of the Kronos Quartet and musicians from non-Western traditions, the research discussed in this chapter extends beyond the standard conventions of the classical string quartet repertoire to embrace unusual and unpredictable combinations of notation and improvisation. Examples of Kronos rehearsing with singers and instrumentalists from Central Asia, and with Ukrainian vocalist Mariana Sadovska, illustrate how conventional Western constructions of composer and performer become blurred when musicians work together

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Adams, Zoe. Labour and the Wage. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858898.001.0001.

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The book uses a Marxian inspired social ontological framework, and a genealogic method to explore the relationship between labour law, the market, and capitalist social relations. It advances a constitutive conception of the law–market and law–society ‘relationship’ that stresses law’s contradictory roles in the emergence and reproduction of capitalist social relations—and, relatedly, in the emergence, and reproduction, of the (capitalist) market, and explores this role in depth through a genealogical analysis of the social category of the wage. Tracing the evolution of the wage through legal

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Lampert, Sara E. Starring Women. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043352.001.0001.

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Star actresses and dancers were among the most publicly visible, celebrated, and often polarizing female public figures in the early United States. This book examines the careers and celebrity of the women and girls from Europe and America whose fame drove the growth and transformation of theater between 1790 and 1850 from the Atlantic seaboard to the trans-Appalachian West. Starring women introduced new repertoire—melodramas, breeches roles, dance pantomime and ballet—that catalyzed debates about social ownership of American culture, regional and national identity, and women’s place in public

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Belasen, Alan T. Developing Women Leaders in Corporate America. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400639623.

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This book provides research-based evidence within the Competing Values Framework to examine women's leadership styles, demonstrate their suitability for senior management positions, and show how employers must embrace women in leadership roles in order for their companies to be diversified and globalized. There is abundant proof that women in senior positions can make boardrooms "smarter" and companies more successful. And with a mastery of transformational and transactional roles, women possess a far larger behavioral repertoire to deal with stress than men—an advantage in any crisis situatio

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Frolova-Walker, Marina, ed. Rimsky-Korsakov and His World. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691182711.001.0001.

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During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally. While he remains well-known in Russia—where many of his fifteen operas and various orchestral pieces are still in the standard repertoire—very little of his work is performed in the West today beyond Scheherezade and arrangements of The Flight of the Bumblebee. In Western writings, he appears mainly in the context of the Mighty Handful, a group of five Russian composers to which he belonged at the outset of his career. This book finally

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Marek, Dan H. Alto. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881809898.

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Everyone is familiar with the words diva or prima donna, which have come to mean a (usually) outrageous operatic soprano, but there was a time when the star of the show was more often a contralto, or a soprano singing in today's mezzo-soprano range. This performer was referred to as an alto. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the male and female leading roles were likely to be sung by emasculated males, the alto castrati, although there were many great female altos during this period as well. The music for these fantastic artists, written by such composers as Porpora, Vinci, Hasse, and even Hande

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Rogers, Holly, and Jeremy Barham, eds. The Music and Sound of Experimental Film. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190469894.001.0001.

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This book explores music- and sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology. It challenges presumptions of visual primacy in experimental cinema and rethinks screen music discourse in light of the aesthetics of non-commercial imperatives. Several themes run through the book, connecting with and significantly enlarging upon current critical discourse surrounding realism and audibility in the fiction film, the role of music in mainstream cinema, and the audiovisua

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Korstvedt, Benjamin M. Bruckner's Fourth. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780197765692.001.0001.

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Abstract Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony is one of the most beloved and frequently performed works in the orchestral repertoire; nevertheless, a great deal about it has remained unknown or misunderstood. The confusion centers around its extraordinary compositional history. Bruckner worked on the Fourth for more than fifteen years and created multiple versions of the work before he was finished. This book offers the first complete and coherent account of the extraordinary compositional evolution of this magnificent symphony. What emerges is the story of Bruckner’s extraordinary efforts to produce a

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Strach, Patricia. The Family. Edited by Richard Valelly, Suzanne Mettler, and Robert Lieberman. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697915.013.008.

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Though family is often seen as private and outside the sphere of politics, some scholars have demonstrated the important role family plays in American politics over time. Integrating family into the repertoire of American political development (APD) will offer new insights into how citizens are made, how states develop capacity, and how change happens over time.

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Makeham, John, ed. The Buddhist Roots of Zhu Xi's Philosophical Thought. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190878559.001.0001.

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Zhu Xi (1130–1200) is the most influential Neo-Confucian philosopher, and arguably the most important Chinese philosopher, of the past millennium, both in terms of his legacy and for the sophistication of his systematic philosophy. The Buddhist Roots of Zhu Xi’s Philosophical Thought combines in a single study two major areas of Chinese philosophy that are rarely tackled together: Chinese Buddhist philosophy and Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucian philosophy. Despite Zhu Xi’s importance as a philosopher, the role of Buddhist thought and philosophy in the construction of his systematic philosophy remains po

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Thompson, MJ. Louise Lecavalier. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350195233.

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As principal dancer with Montréal-based company La La La Human Steps, Louise Lecavalier was among the most iconic dancers of her generation: strong, muscled, androgynous, punk. Moving with spectacular speed, precision and an athletic physicality, her commitment to dancing would ultimately transform the potential of what bodies within Western concert dance could do. Drawing on extensive oral history accounts and archival material, the book follows Lecavalier’s impact on the evolving aesthetic of La La La Human Steps, via the development of its early repertoire, and offers the first sustained ac

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Watkiss, Lee, and Mary Ann Glynn. Materiality and Identity. Edited by Michael G. Pratt, Majken Schultz, Blake E. Ashforth, and Davide Ravasi. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199689576.013.10.

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We explore the relationship between materiality and the instantiation of organizational identity, focusing on three elements of materiality—products, artifacts, and practices—and their role in shaping collective understandings of “who we are” and “what we do” as an organization. We advance a theoretical framework that posits that these three elements of materiality operate via three mechanisms that function in categorization, symbolization, and repertoires for performance, respectively, to affect organizational identity construction. Using illustrations from Apple, Inc., we put forward ideas t

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Subramaniam, Banu, ed. My Experiments with Truth. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038655.003.0006.

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This chapter focuses on biological invasions and presents one example of how we can experiment with an interdisciplinary repertoire of research questions, methods, and epistemologies to produce knowledge about the biological world—in short, an experiment about experimenting. The experiment under discussion is a collaborative project based in Southern California, where human-made disturbance has a very long and destructive history. Here, arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and their role in plant ecology are observed within the environmental contexts of growth, especially the soil communities of

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McDaniel, Cadra Peterson. American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy. Lexington Books, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666985030.

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American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy: The Bolshoi Ballet’s American Premiere is the first full-length examination of a Soviet cultural diplomatic effort. Following the signing of an American-Soviet cultural exchange agreement in the late 1950s, Soviet officials resolved to utilize the Bolshoi Ballet’s planned 1959 American tour to awe audiences with Soviet choreographers’ great accomplishments and Soviet performers’ superb abilities. Relying on extensive research, Cadra Peterson McDaniel examines whether the objectives behind Soviet cultural exchange and the specific aims of the Bolshoi Ballet’s

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Hyers, Lauri L. Diary Data Collection as a Qualitative Research Method. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190256692.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses the use of the diary in qualitative research, the role of the researcher and the diarist, the format of the entries, the epistemological orientations underlying diary designs, and various types of diary studies. The diary has always been among the options in the qualitative methodological repertoire and actually predates other more common contemporary methods for data collection. Diary studies involve the standard tasks of any research project: reviewing the literature and identifying research questions; designing and carrying out a data collection protocol; and analyzin

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Breyley, Gay. Sima’s Choices. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037245.003.0010.

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This chapter discusses the life and career of Iranian singer Sima Shokrani. She specializes in Mazanderani repertoire and language, and was profoundly influenced by the work songs of her grandmother. Demonstrating an engagement with political and ideological issues from childhood, Sima challenged linguistic constraints and participated in the revolution of 1979 as a university student of twenty-one. She has shaped her career as a woman singer within the well-known constraints in Iran, as restrictions are placed around women singers by law. Making choices to sing songs that articulate women's a

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Hicks, Michael. From within the Shadow. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039089.003.0005.

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This chapter discusses the activities of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir under Spencer Cornwall's conductorship. Cornwall began his tenure by refashioning the Choir's sound. He summoned each Choir member to his office at the McCune School of Music for them to reaudition. By the end of the auditions, Cornwall had cut the membership rolls by 187 from the levels at Anthony Lund's death. Cornwall brought not only new standards but a new set of ideals, attitudes, and rehearsal techniques. In the Choir's tone and delivery, Cornwall seemed to care most about dynamics, straight tone, and enunciation. As f

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Bithell, Caroline. The Renaissance of the Corsican Confraternities and Their Musical Negotiations. Edited by Jonathan Dueck and Suzel Ana Reily. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859993.013.002.

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Caroline Bithell’s essay offers a history of a local religious institution—the Corsican confraternity—which constructs itself as a local alternative to a global religious bureaucracy—the Catholic hierarchy. She traces the musical life of the confraternities between the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and comments on the contemporary role played by the confraternities in both church and society. The distinctive polyphonic song repertoires of the confraternities are central to their identities, negotiated with contemporary church and Corsican institutions. In sum, in Corsica, the confraterni

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Wolf, Richard K. Tone and Stroke. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038587.003.0003.

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This chapter examines the importance of tone and stroke melody in the rhythmic patterns of South Asian drumming traditions. Many musicians and listeners in South Asia are interested in the relation of what they consider classical music to what they consider folk music. Some emphasize the distinction when wishing to make a point about what constitutes true musical knowledge (usually knowledge associated with the “classical”). This chapter explores the practice of naming and defining drum patterns based on the author's fieldwork in a number of cities, towns, and rural regions in India and Pakist

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Leaper, Campbell. Gender, Dispositions, Peer Relations, and Identity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190658540.003.0010.

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This chapter considers possible ways that peer relations, group identity, and dispositional preferences are interrelated and contribute to children’s gender development. The author advances an integrative theoretical model of gender development that bridges complementary theories by linking sex-related dispositions and physical characteristics to the process of assimilation within same-gender peer groups. Research suggests some (but not all) children have strong behavioral dispositions (temperaments and intense interests) and physical characteristics that are either highly compatible or highly

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von der Goltz, Anna. The Other '68ers. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849520.001.0001.

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This is the first book about West German centre-right students in 1968, a major moment of political and cultural contestation in the Federal Republic and indeed across much of the globe. Based on interviews with former activists and a wealth of new archival sources, it examines the ideas, experiences, and repertoires of activists we do not normally associate with 1968. Writing them back into the history of 1968 and its afterlives, as this book does, reveals that the protest movement of these years was a broader, more politically versatile, and, ultimately, even more consequential phenomenon th

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Porta, Donatella della, Massimiliano Andretta, Tiago Fernandes, Eduardo Romanos, and Markos Vogiatzoglou. Transition Times in Memory. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190860936.003.0002.

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The second chapter covers the main characteristics of transition time in the four countries: Italy, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. After developing the theoretical model on paths of transition, with a focus on social movement participation, the chapter looks at social movements and protest events as turning points during transition, covering in particular the specific movement actors, their organizational models, and their repertoires of action and frames. The chapter focuses on two dimensions: the role of mobilization in the transition period, which implies the analysis of how elites and masses

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Volpi, Frédéric. Redrawing Contention and Authoritarian Practices. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190642921.003.0005.

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This chapter focuses on the routinization of the interpretations and behaviors initiated by the protest episodes. It details the new dynamics of protest mobilization and their implications for preexisting practices of governance. The analysis illustrates how the self-reflective construction of “revolutionary” practices fundamentally reframed government and opposition interactions. The modalities of mobilization and the role played by violence are flagged up as the factors that shaped most decisively the strategic choices of the protesters and the regimes at that stage of the uprisings. Growing

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Leary, James P. Accordions and Working-Class Culture along Lake Superior’s South Shore. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037207.003.0008.

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This chapter examines the accordion culture along the south shore of Lake Superior. From the late nineteenth century through the present, the accordion has reigned in the area as the most ubiquitous and emblematic folk-musical instrument. A downright working-class instrument, it fostered egalitarian social relations and interethnic alliances—a kind of alliance only possible in the New World, where the politics of ethnic identity has come to govern many social relations. The chapter focuses in the following: (1) how South Shore musicians acquired and learned to play assorted accordions; (2) the

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Kriesi, Hanspeter. 16. Social movements. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198737421.003.0018.

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This chapter focuses on social movements, specific forms of collective behaviour having action repertoires of their own that distinguish them from established political actors. Social movements include movements of the extreme right and anti-racist movements, transnational peace movements, and movements aimed against powerful financial interests and orchestrated through social media. The chapter first explains the meaning of social movements and presents a conceptualization of key terms before comparing social movements with organizations. It then considers how social movements attract the att

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Crist, Stephen A. Dave Brubeck's Time Out. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190217716.001.0001.

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This book is the first full-length study of Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, one of the most commercially successful albums in the history of jazz. Although the music of Time Out is exceedingly well known, and it remains a vital element of the American soundscape, it has received very little scholarly investigation until now. A central group of chapters examines the project’s seven cuts from several different points of view. The Quartet’s creative process is charted, from Brubeck’s earliest compositional sketches and drafts through multiple takes of the recording sessions in 1959. Other t

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de Bruin, Hanne M. Kaṭṭaikkūttu. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350236646.

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This is the first book to offer a clear introduction to Kattaikkuttu (or Terukkuttu), a vibrant, vocal and physical outdoor Tamil theatre tradition. It describes the theatre’s characteristic heroic nature as expressed through its principal, male kattai characters, explores its history, social status and ritual context, and examines the production of all-night plays. After placing Kattaikkuttu in the wider, competitive context of the performing arts in India, Hanne M. de Bruin introduces readers to some of the debates about the form and provides an overview of the different elements that make u

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Hunter, Walt. Forms of a World. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282227.001.0001.

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Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization shows how the forms of contemporary poetry are forged through the transformations of globalization from 1970 to the present. The book’s inquiry springs from two related questions: what happens when we think of poetry as a global literary form, and when we think of the global in poetic terms? I argue that analyses of globalization are incomplete without poetry and that contemporary poetry cannot be understood fully without acknowledging the global forces from which it arises. Forms of a World contends that poetry’s role is no

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Nardini, Luisa. In the Quest of Gallican Remnants in Gregorian Manuscripts. Edited by Patricia Hall. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199733163.013.11.

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This chapter examines Gallican components in liturgical chants copied in Gregorian manuscripts by focusing on a group of chants for the masses for the Holy Cross. These chants, copied in manuscripts from Aquitaine, bear signs of more remote pre-Gregorian roots that can be recognized in some textual and musical features, in aspects related to their liturgical collocation, and in the theological arguments they contain. Before undertaking an analysis of specific examples, the chapter first considers the extent to which royal decrees influenced chant practices in Carolingian and post-Carolingian E

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Fair, Alistair. ‘A New Image of the Town Centre’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807476.003.0006.

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This chapter locates key theatres of the 1960s and early 1970s in a series of urban contexts. The first part of the chapter discusses the idea of civic pride, and shows how this idea—often associated with the nineteenth century—persisted in the post-war period. It discusses how theatres could be invoked in discussions of civic pride and urban identity, and the range of individuals and organizations who did so. The second part of the chapter considers a series of examples whose location was discussed at some length. Some of these examples were located in civic centres as demonstrations of their

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Blowers, Paul M. Visions and Faces of the Tragic. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854104.001.0001.

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Despite the pervasive early Christian repudiation of pagan theatrical art, especially prior to Constantine, this monograph demonstrates the increasing attention of late-ancient Christian authors to the genre of tragedy as a basis to explore the complexities of human finitude, suffering, and mortality in relation to the wisdom, justice, and providence of God. The book argues that various Christian writers, particularly in the post-Constantinian era, were keenly devoted to the mimesis, or imaginative re-presentation, of the tragic dimension of creaturely existence more than with simply mimicking

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Halliday, Aria S. Buy Black. University of Illinois Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044274.001.0001.

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Negotiating the line between “sell out” and “for us, by us,” Buy Black explores how Black women cultural producers’ further Black women’s historical position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress in the United States. Black women cultural producers’ aesthetic choices communicate that even though capitalist discourses dictate that anything is sellable in our society, there are some symbols of beauty, femininity, and sexuality that sell better than others because of how they occupy the set of already recognizable and, at times, relatable representations of blackness. While th

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Minden, Gabriela. Modernism after the Ballets Russes. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198951704.001.0001.

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Abstract Modernism after the Ballets Russes recovers the striking yet understudied role that Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes played in the development of modernist theatre in Britain. Diaghilev’s company holds a renowned position in modernism across various arts. Yet its contributions to dramatic literature and dramaturgy have remained surprisingly elusive. This book establishes the Ballets Russes as an integral part of British theatre history, revealing how the company’s avant-garde repertoire inspired the creation of new composition strategies and performance techniques that privileged the

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Koch, Christof. Biophysics of Computation. Oxford University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195104912.001.0001.

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Neural network research often builds on the fiction that neurons are simple linear threshold units, completely neglecting the highly dynamic and complex nature of synapses, dendrites, and voltage-dependent ionic currents. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons challenges this notion, using richly detailed experimental and theoretical findings from cellular biophysics to explain the repertoire of computational functions available to single neurons. The author shows how individual nerve cells can multiply, integrate, or delay synaptic inputs and how information can b

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Adelson, Robert. Erard. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197565315.001.0001.

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Sébastien Erard’s (1752–1831) inventions have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano building today. Drawing on an unusually rich set of archives from both the Erard firm and the Erard family, Robert Adelson shows how the Erard piano played an important and often leading role in the history of the instrument, beginning in the late eighteenth century and continuing into the final decades of the nineteenth. The Erards were the first piano builders in France to prioritise the more sonorous grand piano, sending gifts of their new model to bo

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Waltham-Smith, Naomi. Music and Belonging Between Revolution and Restoration. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190662004.001.0001.

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In what ways is music implicated in the politics of belonging? How is the proper at stake in listening? What role does the ear play in forming a sense of community? Music and Belonging argues that music, at the level of style and form, produces certain modes of listening that in turn reveal the conditions of belonging. Specifically, listening shows the intimacy between two senses of belonging: belonging to a community is predicated on the possession of a particular property or capacity. Somewhat counterintuitively perhaps, Waltham-Smith suggests that this relation between belonging-as-membersh

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Keating, Jennifer. On Arid Ground. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855251.001.0001.

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On Arid Ground focuses on the relationships between empire and environment in Central Asia, using environmental history to examine the practice of Russian imperialism in Turkestan at the end of empire, from the 1860s until 1916. It reveals for the first time a comprehensive assessment of the environmental imprint of Russian colonization, and shows how local ecologies fitted into broader repertoires of imperial rule, accommodation and resistance. Ranging widely above and below the surface in Turkestan, from the deserts of Transcaspia to the highlands and lowlands of rural Fergana and Semirech’e

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Goodman, Glenda. Cultivated by Hand. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190884901.001.0001.

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Hundreds of volumes filled with hand-copied music sit in archives and libraries across the United States. Created by amateur musicians who came of age in the years following the American Revolution. These manuscript books reveal the existence of a musical culture that was deeply intertwined in people’s everyday lives and at the same time in powerful historical forces that were shaping the new nation. Cultivated by Hand is a social and material history of musical amateurism. It uncovers the influences that directed amateurs’ experiences, delves into how those influences manifested in individual

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Klausen, Jytte. Western Jihadism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198870791.001.0001.

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This book tells the story of how Al Qaeda grew in the West. In compelling detail, Jytte Klausen traces how Islamist revolutionaries exiled in Europe and North America in the 1990s helped create and control the world’s deadliest terrorist movement - and how, after the near-obliteration of the organization in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, they helped to rebuild it. She shows that the diffusion of Islamist terrorism to Europe and North America was driven, not by local grievances of Western Muslims, but by the strategic priorities of the international Salafi-jihadist revolutionary movement. T

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della Porta, Donatella, Massimiliano Andretta, Tiago Fernandes, Eduardo Romanos, and Markos Vogiatzoglou. Legacies and Memories in Movements. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190860936.001.0001.

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This volume addresses long-term effects of democratic transitions on social movements in Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Spain. From the theoretical point of view, the main focus of reflection is on the long-term impact of eventful moments on social movements, especially the causal mechanisms through which legacies and memories of transformative protest events are produced and reproduced over time, enhancing and constraining contemporary movements’ repertoires and frames. The paths of democratic transitions set norms and institutions that affect protests in the long term. Without taking a determi

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Gannon, Anna. The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199254651.001.0001.

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This is the first scholarly art-historical appraisal of Anglo-Saxon coinage, from its inception in the late sixth century to Offa's second reform of the penny c.792. Outside numismatic circles, this material has largely been ignored because of its complexity, yet artistically this is the most vibrant period of English coinage, with die-cutters showing flair and innovation and employing hundreds of different designs in their work. By analysing the iconography of the early coinage, this book intends to introduce its rich legacy to a wide audience. Anna Gannon divides the designs of the coins int

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Williams, Gareth. The 306. University of Edinburgh, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ed.9781836450597.

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The 306 is a trilogy of music-theatre works co-created by composer Gareth Williams and writer Oliver Emanuel that explore the stories of the 306 British soldiers executed during World War 1. Many of these 306 men, executed for cowardice, desertion and mutiny are not listed on any official memorials, even after they were conditionally pardoned by the British Government in 2006. This work gathered all of these names for the first time, listing them in song to complete the trilogy. As a part of 14-18 NOW (the UK-wide commemorative cultural program of work from 2016 – 2018) The 306 explored ideas

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Garafola, Lynn. La Nijinska. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197603901.001.0001.

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La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern is the first biography of ballet’s premier female choreographer and a pioneer of the modern tradition in ballet. Overshadowed in life and legend by her brother Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska had a far longer and more productive career. An architect of twentieth-century neoclassicism, she experienced the transformative power of the Russian Revolution and created her greatest work—Les Noces—under the influence of its avant-garde. Many of her ballets rested on the probing of gender boundaries, a mistrust of conventional gender roles, and the heighten

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