The Violin
The Violin

Author: Mark Katz

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0815336373

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This book is the only complete and up-to-date annotated bibliography available on women's activities and contributions in the creation and performance of music through the ages. Encompassing major books, articles and recordings published over the past five decades, the book examines a broad cross-section of contemporary thought, with each entry - with over 500 devoted to resources from countries outside the US - including annotation along with a critical description of content.

Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture
Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture

Author: Antje Krause-Wahl

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-06-03

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1350192910

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Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize. They are a formative element of material culture, promising luxury, social distinction and the hope of limitless experience and excess. Since the early twentieth century the mass production, dissemination and popularization of synthetic materials that produce heretofore-unknown effects of shine have increased. At the same time, shine is subjectified as “glamor” and made into a token of performative self-empowerment. The volume illuminates genealogical as well as systematic relationships between material phenomena of shine and cultural-philosophical concepts of appearance, illusion, distraction and glare in bringing together renowned scholars from various disciplines.