Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways
Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways

Author: National Geographic

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1426219059

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Describes the scenery, history, and points of interest along three hundred scenic routes across the United States

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 18
The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 18

Author: L. Bryce Boyer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1135827591

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Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W. Doniger); the modern folk tale "The Boyfriend's Death" (M. Carroll); a gruesome Eskimo bedtime story (R. Boyer); the homosexual implications of Argentinean soccer (M. Suarez-Orozco); and the symbolism of a Malaysian religious festival (E. Fuller).

Interpreting Music
Interpreting Music

Author: Lawrence Kramer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010-11-02

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0520947363

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Interpreting Music is a comprehensive essay on understanding musical meaning and performing music meaningfully—"interpreting music" in both senses of the term. Synthesizing and advancing two decades of highly influential work, Lawrence Kramer fundamentally rethinks the concepts of work, score, performance, performativity, interpretation, and meaning—even the very concept of music—while breaking down conventional wisdom and received ideas. Kramer argues that music, far from being closed to interpretation, is ideally open to it, and that musical interpretation is the paradigm of interpretation in general. The book illustrates the many dimensions of interpreting music through a series of case studies drawn from the classical repertoire, but its methods and principles carry over to other repertoires just as they carry beyond music by working through music to wider philosophical and cultural questions.

Heroic Imagination
Heroic Imagination

Author: Frederic Ewen

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2004-05

Total Pages: 766

ISBN-13: 9780814722251

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Heroic Imagination Describes the historical period and the wide manifistation of creativity that took place between 1815 and 1848 in Europe, from Napoleon's downfall in the battle of Waterloo in 1815 to the "Restoration" that sought to bring back the old order preceding the French Revolution. While revolutions and historicle events were shaping the world, the "collective consciousness" of the public began to integrate with the creative consciousness of the individual. The creative energies of artists, philosophers, poets, political and social thinkers emerged and produced some of the most revered artistic geniuses in history, such as Beethoven, Byron, Pushkin, Balzac, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Delacroix, Goya, and Goethe. Frederic Ewen vividly depicts the "new" world of the early nineteenth century, and the assemblage of genius that produced a body of art that has become the unforgettable property of all ages.