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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “alison mcqueen”
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  • The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950

    Edited by Alison McQueen Tokita, Joys H. Y. Cheung ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth-century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of art song – a solo song set to a poem in the local language in Western art music style accompanied by piano – as a vehicle for creating a localized musical identity, while embracing cosmopolitan visions. The study of art song reveals both the tension ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative

    by Alison McQueen Tokita ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished and declined, together with factors contributing to development and change in narrative performance. Performed narratives are examples of a shared cultural heritage, which in the past have given people ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Politics Recovered

    Realist Thought in Theory and Practice

    by Matt Sleat, Duncan Bell, Richard Bellamy, Elizabeth Frazer, Michael Freeden, William A. Galston, Charles Larmore, Alison McQueen, John Medearis, Glen Newey0, David Owen1, Mark Philp2, Paul Sagar3, Rahul Sagar4, William Scheuerman5 ...
    Is political theory political enough? Or does a tendency toward abstraction, idealization, moralism, and utopianism leave contemporary political theory out of touch with real politics as it actually takes place, and hence unable to speak meaningfully to or about our world? Realist political thought, which has enjoyed a significant revival of interest in recent years, seeks to avoid such pitfalls ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times

    by Alison McQueen ...
    From climate change to nuclear war to the rise of demagogic populists, our world is shaped by doomsday expectations. In this path-breaking book, Alison McQueen shows why three of history's greatest political realists feared apocalyptic politics. Niccolò Machiavelli in the midst of Italy's vicious power struggles, Thomas Hobbes during England's bloody civil war, and Hans Morgenthau at the dawn of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Politics Recovered

    Realist Thought in Theory and Practice

    by Matt Sleat, Duncan Bell, Richard Bellamy, Elizabeth Frazer, Michael Freeden, William A. Galston, Charles Larmore, Alison McQueen, John Medearis, Glen Newey0, David Owen1, Mark Philp2, Paul Sagar3, Rahul Sagar4, William Scheuerman5 ...
    Is political theory political enough? Or does a tendency toward abstraction, idealization, moralism, and utopianism leave contemporary political theory out of touch with real politics as it actually takes place, and hence unable to speak meaningfully to or about our world? Realist political thought, which has enjoyed a significant revival of interest in recent years, seeks to avoid such pitfalls ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music

    by David W. Hughes ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Music is a frequently neglected aspect of Japanese culture. It is in fact a highly problematic area, as the Japanese actively introduced Western music into their modern education system in the Meiji period (1868-1911), creating westernized melodies and instrumental instruction for Japanese children from kindergarten upwards. As a result, most Japanese now have a far greater familiarity with ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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  • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

    East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea

    Edited by Robert C. Provine, Yosihiko Tokumaru, J. Lawrence Witzleben ...
    Series series Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
    This volume explores not only the close ties that link the cultures and musics of East and Northeast Asia, but also the distinctive features that separate them. ... Read more

    $1,051.99 CAD

  • Overtone Singing

    Harmonic Dimensions of the Human Voice

    by Mark Van Tongeren ...
    An indispensable guide to a deeper understanding of the nature of the human voice and its harmonic possibilities from East to West.Overtone Singing is the most comprehensive book ever written on the hidden harmonies of the human voice. Ethnomusicologist and vocalist Mark van Tongeren offers fascinating insights into the timeless and universal aspects of sound and vibration. Grounded in the author ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Electroacoustic Music in East Asia

    Edited by Marc Battier, Kenneth Fields ...
    This book illuminates the development of electronic and computer music in East Asia, presented by authors from these countries and territories (China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan).The scholars bring forward the cultural complexities and conflicts involved in their diverse encounters with new music technology and modern aesthetics. How electronic music attracted the interest of composers from East ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

    Edited by Kirk Denton ...
    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • How Propaganda Works

    by Jason Stanley ...
    How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

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  • The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism

    and Other Writings

    by Max Weber, Peter Baehr, Gordon C. Wells ...
    Translated by Peter Baehr, Gordon C. Wells ...
    In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD