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Author(s): EDWARD HIGGINS
This interdisciplinary course examines the connection between music and social/political movements in the United States, with special emphasis on the tumultuous social, economic, and political challenges of the 20thCentury. Students will identify the music of social change, its relationship with history, diversity, and social justice, and its place in the broader context of American studies.
Author(s): Allen Schantz, Mark Dorn
The exploration of music and the other arts can be a profoundly meaningful and enjoyable pathway into the endless imagination and beauty of our Creator. At their richest, the arts have such a transcendent quality that they can usher us into awe, worship, and delight.
Author(s): Kazadi wa Mukuna
The definition of music has challenged scholars throughout the history of music. But in his seminal work The Anthropology of Music (1964), Alan Merriam proposes a culturally broad based definition of music as a product of human behavior in time and space, and has structure; but its structure cannot have an existence of its own divorced from the behavior, which produced it. This definition allows each culture/community to define its music on its own terms.
Author(s): Todd V Lewis
The performance of literature discipline seems as vibrant and innovative as ever.
The new seventh edition of Communicating Literature: An Introduction to Oral Interpretation reflects changes in the performance of literature since the first edition was published in 1991. The publication offers a communication-oriented definition of oral interpretation, a basic rudimentary statement of oral interpretation essentials and a link between oral interpretation and acting.
Author(s): Jeremy Smith, Jay Keister
Music Appreciation: Histories and Cultures is an introductory text that covers even-handedly and engagingly the subject of music from across the spectrum of the Popular, World, and Western Classical traditions. The authors began this project after realizing that even though one (Keister) is an ethnomusicologist, and the other (Smith) is a musicologist, they share a personal and professional relationship with music of the Popular tradition, as both performed music of
Author(s): Robert Smith
Theatre: Its Nature, Its Variety, Its Development is laid out in a nontraditional format for introductory theatre courses. The nature of theatre is difficult enough to understand without imposing a 2,500 year barrier to that process. Accordingly, this text starts with an understanding of the nature of theatre in our own time. After students have a solid understanding of the nature of theatre and significant awareness of the variety of theatre, then they will be better equipped to begin studying theatre in its historical context.
Author(s): Jon Michael Fox, Ronni Lea Fox
Exploring the Nature of Creativity provides an introduction to creativity for the curious, the uninitiated, the students of beginning classes, and all other interested persons beginning their inquiry into the field of creativity research. Conversational knowledge is not easily gleaned from formal research writing and academic formats—this text simplifies and condenses the research available in the field so that the average freshman student will feel comfortable in exploring it further.
Author(s): Robert A. Jordan
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The Way I See It is not a conventional cinema book. It is written in a casual, direct style. Each essay is short and easy to read, either before or after viewing a particular film. Dozens of films are discussed, including many that are sure to be on your screening list.
Author(s): David Stuart, Ryan Sheeler
Ecclesiastes said it well: “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” From Bakersfield to Beale Street traces the origins and evolution of American rock ‘n’ roll between 1940 and 1987 by examining the intersection of styles and regional influences. The blues, traditional country, and gospel music are the progenitors of rock ‘n’ roll; evolving forms are shaped by distinctive influences in the South, the East and West Coasts, and the Midwest.
