D.P - History & Criticism 1

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collectionーthe first of its kindーinvites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing s……続きを見る

In 2015, Bob Dylan said, "I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them, back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing……続きを見る

In 1995ーone hundred years after the birth of cinema in Parisーa Vatican-appointed commission compiled a list of forty-five significant films. The entries vary widely, ranging from light-hearted fav……続きを見る

More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlić off……続きを見る

Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first century The first part of this volume reconstructs the various music……続きを見る

Über vierzig Jahre lang brachte Willis Conover ab den 1950er Jahren allabendlich den Jazz via Kurzwelle in die Welt. Besonders in den ehemaligen Ostblockländern wurden Conover und seine Sendungen zu……続きを見る

A clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook to learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house. If you've decided that the time has finally come t……続きを見る

Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times. Germany's twentieth-century history has made imagining and representing violence in German culture ……続きを見る

New interpretations of different aspects of troubadour texts and lyrics, from their main themes and motifs to their reception and influence. Nearly a millennium after their songs of love, politics, ……続きを見る

Take Your First Steps Into Worldbuilding. Ready to build your first fantasy world but don't know where to start? 101 Worldbuilding Prompts delivers just what it promises with 101 questions to guide ……続きを見る

Winner of the Dark Fest Film Festival Award for Best Genre Author 2024 David Pirie's acclaimed history of British gothic film and television has long been regarded as a foundational study of the roo……続きを見る

Zäsuren der politischen Geschichte bestimmen das Bild, das wir uns von der Musikgeschichte machen. Die Jahreszahlen 1933 und 1945 wurden mit guten Gründen auch zur musikhistorischen Periodisierung d……続きを見る

Join David in his lockdown journey through his 102 favorite songs, Two pages are dedicated for each song, analysing what makes them special, attempting to understand their meanings and supplying any……続きを見る

America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. ……続きを見る

Inside the acclaimed television police dramaーthe intelligent writing, intense characters, dark sense of humor, innovative editing, and complex plots. Homicide: Life on the Street was addictive tele……続きを見る

Nominated for the 2025 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. In exploring heterogeneous intersections between jazz, rock, ethnic, an……続きを見る

In the summer of 1864, an entrepreneur built an observation tower just outside the walls of the federal prison at Elmira, New York. He charged 15 cents for citizens to climb the tower and observe th……続きを見る

The best-known songs in the world are violent, sexist, and religious ー so why do we celebrate national anthems when we should be rewriting them? The story begins in a London theatre in 1745, where ……続きを見る

In the New Hollywood Era of the 1960s and 1970s, as weakening studio control granted directors more artistic freedom, the auteur theory, which regards the director as the primary artist among all th……続きを見る

“[An] exhaustively researched survey of Raymond Chandler’s thorny relationship with Hollywood during the classic period of film noir.” ーAlain Silver, film producer and author Raymond Chandler’s sev……続きを見る

This critical biography by the acclaimed film historian is “certainly the definitive work on the director” behind The Godfather and Apocalypse Now (Publishers Weekly). Gene Phillips blends biograph……続きを見る

A biography of the six-time Oscar-winning director of films like Some Like It Hot and Double Indemnity, featuring analysis of his work. Although his career spanned fifty years and included more than……続きを見る

Blending a behind-the-scenes history about New York City’s Public Theater with an engrossing account of her life working alongside her husband, the Public's founder Joe Papp, Public/Private is Gail ……続きを見る

Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter was met with both critical and commercial success upon its release in 1978. However, it was also highly controversial and came to be seen as a powerful statement on ……続きを見る

A fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do. Despite the cultural diversity of our globalized world, most……続きを見る

Emotional courage is an underestimated characteristic of successful Black life in the segregated, unjust US south. Author Greg Freeland reflects on how music reflected, impacted, and influenced Blac……続きを見る

From David Puttnamーproducer of such modern film classics as Chariots of Fire, The Killing Fields, Midnight Express, and The Mission, and the only European to have run a major Hollywood studioーan i……続きを見る

'An exultant night - a man in total command of his talent.' Observer 'The most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinter's plays.' The Times When Teddy, a professor in……続きを見る

A social, cultural, historical, and institutional analysis of the classic original series The Fugitive. Television's longest-running chase story, The Fugitive was a dramatically charged show that fo……続きを見る

In 1983, anthropologist Richard Pace began his fieldwork in the Amazonian community of Gurupá one year after the first few television sets arrived. On a nightly basis, as the community’s electricity……続きを見る