This book offers a long-overdue examination of choral performance practices in the 1800s, including expressive devices, pronunciation, instruments, and choral/orchestral placement. More than one-hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs and contemporaneous sources detail how choral music was sung in this time period.
In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First C
The contributors to this volume ask whether democracy is universal or culturally bound, how the adoption of Western liberal models of democracy has hindered democratisation in Africa, and how indigenous African political thought can be utilised to design models of democracy suitable for twenty-first-century African countries.
Contemporary philosophy is interested in questions of luck and moral responsibility. Christian theology is largely unconcerned with luck because of its understanding of the creatureliness of the will. This understanding is rooted in story of the primal sin the narrative about how the first good creature chose wrongly. When considered ......
This book presents evidence that verbal and visual symbols in the media can activate implicit prejudices towards Muslim women in the United State and that social liberals, not social conservatives, can control activation. Authors suggest media and intrapersonal interventions to mitigate the harmful consequences of gendered Islamophobia.
Drawing on the academic literature and real-world examples, this book details the impacts of interactive media in various sectors of American society. The aim is to provide the reader with a set of applicable principles and practical tips for understanding and navigating these changes, now and into the future.
This book revives a neglected video game classic through a critical examination of its design, its makers, its recording medium, and its imagery. The investigation of these facets reveals a game shaped by the demands of its context and is instructive for contemporary debates in media studies.
The Converging Poetics of Sohrab Sepehri and James Baldwin
Ecotheology and Love examines ecotheology and ecopoetics in the work of Sohrab Sepehri, a twentieth-century Rumi and a pillar of the religion of love, and American novelist James Baldwin. Davary shows how these artists' deep understanding of spiritual traditions of the world give their work immediacy for our time.
This book examines the deployment of religious soft power in African states to influence international relations as well as the role and perception of politics for African people. The book analyzes how religion has been used as an instrument of persuasion and influence in a cross-disciplinary study of political science and religious studies.
