Author: Diana McVeagh
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: music, life, finzi, gerald
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-09-22
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1843831708
ISBN-13: 9781843831709

’A Song outlasts a Dynasty.’ Gerald Finzi’s maxim embodies his creed. As a song writer, his affinity with Thomas Hardy is stronger even than Fauré’s with Verlaine, or Wolf’s with Mörike. His most famous work is his exquisite cantata Dies Natalis. His Intimations of Immortality is worthy of Wordsworth’s poem, and his Cello Concerto is a big turbulent work. From being a solitary introverted young man, he developed into a great activator. He held strong views on education, pacifism, vegetarianism, the nature/nurture debate, the Arts and Crafts movement, the E

Author: Diana McVeagh
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: maker, music, elgar
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-06-21
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 184383295X
ISBN-13: 9781843832959

’The new Diana McVeagh book on Elgar is first-rate,’ wrote Gerald Finzi of her earlier study of the composer, published in 1955. In the completely new Elgar the Music Maker she harvests five decades of thoughts about his music, scrutinizing the biographical details that have since been discovered and using them to assess the ways in which they affect the compositions. Diana McVeagh explores Elgar’s complex personality and his compositional methods, his style and his relationship to his contemporaries, yet it is the music - still played, recorded, loved and discussed as much a

Authors:Diana Raznovich, Diana Taylor, Victoria Martinez,
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Keywords: plays, cuatro, obras, four, desafiantes, acts, actos, defiant
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2002-06
List price: $43.50
ISBN-10: 0838754791
ISBN-13: 9780838754795

Authors:Diana Taylor, Roselyn Costantino, Diana Taylor, Rosel
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: women, perform, american, latin, terrors, holy
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2004-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 082233240X
ISBN-13: 9780822332404

Holy Terrors presents exemplary original work by fourteen of Latin America’s foremost contemporary women theatre and performance artists. Many of the pieces—including one-act plays, manifestos, and lyrics—appear in English for the first time. From Griselda Gambaro, Argentina’s most widely recognized playwright, to such renowned performers as Brazil’s Denise Stoklos and Mexico’s Jesusa Rodríguez, these women are involved in some of Latin America’s most important aesthetic and political movements. Of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds, they come from across L

Authors:Diana Denham, Diana Denham, C.A.S.A. Collective,
Publisher: PM Press
Keywords: oaxaca, press, mobilization, grassroots, rebellion, stories, teaching
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-10-07
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1604860324
ISBN-13: 9781604860320

In 2006, Oaxaca, Mexico came alive with a broad and diverse movement that captivated the nation and earned the admiration of communities organizing for social justice around the world. The show of international solidarity for the people of Oaxaca was the most extensive since the Zapatista uprising in 1994. Fueled by long ignored social contradictions, what began as a teachers’ strike demanding more resources for education, quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded direct, participatory democracy. Hundreds of thousands of Oaxacans raised their voices against the abuses of the s

Authors:edited by Diana Wilson, Diana Wilson,
Publisher: Heritage House
Keywords: worth, keeping, stoires, chilcotin, cariboo, heart
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-04-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 189497428X
ISBN-13: 9781894974288

This anthology continues the story of the Cariboo Chilcotin, a harshly beautiful and remote region in B.C. s north. From the days of the gold rush through to modern times, these stories capture the spirit of a place whose beauty and wildness have inspired its people throughout its history. Legendary tales include a husband s promise to his dying wife that he will not let her body languish in what to her is an alien, inhospitable land. How the theft of a nugget pin in Barkerville leads to a murderer s capture. The ill-conceived plan to use camels on the Cariboo Road. Native traditions and ski

Author: Diana Ree
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: world, war, novels, popular, romance, rescue
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1982-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0879722126
ISBN-13: 9780879722128

This study of the rescue motif in popular American novels before World War I focuses on the rescue convention as part of the romantic plot of the novels. The rescue as a structured convention that controls the movement of the romantic plot appears in all types of domestic novels, gothics, dime novels, historical romances, and westerns.