Author: Elizabeth MackinlayDenis Collins and Samantha Owe
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Keywords: performance, music, experience, aesthetics
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $79.99
ISBN-10: 1904303501
ISBN-13: 9781904303503

Drawing upon a wide range of scholarly enquiry into early music, queer musicology, ethnomusicology, performance practice, music education and technology, Aesthetics and Experience in Music Performance provides a lively forum for the articulation of varied perspectives on the role of music, its interpretation and function in contexts supported by those who practice or experience it. The formal and shorter discussion papers included in this scholarly collection were presented at the National Workshop of the Musicological Society of Australia, held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane in

Authors:Peter Knight and Jonathan Long (eds), Peter Knight,
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Keywords: forgeries, fakes
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $79.99
ISBN-10: 1904303404
ISBN-13: 9781904303404

The possibility that works of art and literature might be forged and that identity might be faked has haunted the cultural imagination for centuries. That spectre seems to have returned with a vengeance recently, with a series of celebrated hoaxes and scandals ranging from the Alan Sokal hoax article in Social Text to Binjamin Wilkomirski s fake Holocaust memoir. But as well as creating anxiety, the possibility of faking it has now been turned into entertainment. Traditionally these activities have been dismissed as dangerous and immoral, but more recently some scholars have begun to spec

Authors:Nathan Smith and Jason Taylor, Nathan Smith, Jason T
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Keywords: cartesianism, descartes
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $69.99
ISBN-10: 1904303455
ISBN-13: 9781904303459

Descartes is well known for his decisive and spectacular break with the philosophical tradition. Indeed, on account of that break, he is frequently reputed to be the father of modern philosophy. This reputation, in an important sense, seems deserved. The present collection, however, attempts to reevaluate the currency of this common opinion by attending to the impact of Cartesianism on philosophy from its immediate epicenter in 17th century science and metaphysics up to its continuing consequences today. In a larger sense, the volume aims to contribute to efforts underway in contemporary

Authors:Geraldine Barnes with Gabrielle Singleton, N/a,
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Keywords: dampier, bede, travellers, travel
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $79.99
ISBN-10: 190430351X
ISBN-13: 9781904303510

The essays in this collection -- a selection of papers presented at the University of Sydney Centre for Medieval Studies workshop, Travel and Cartography from Bede to the Enlightenment (August 22-23, 2001) track a variety of travel narratives from the eighth century to the eighteenth. Their voyages, which extend from from the literal to the spiritual, the political, and the artistic, show how the concept of narrative mapping has changed over time, and how it encompasses cosmogony, geography, chorography, topography, and inventory. Each essay is concerned in some way with the application

Authors:Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe, N/a,
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Keywords: artists, famous, plays, biographical
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 1904303471
ISBN-13: 9781904303473

Since the late 1970s, more than 200 biographical plays about famous artists (composers, fine artists, poets, actors etc.) were written and staged in the United Kingdom. The book analyses the range of these plays, arguing that the dramatists often place the main artist character(s) in an adverse situation, inward (e.g., mental illness) or outward (a personal enemy, or an anonymous power, such as war). Against the background of such adverse forces, the artist characters tend come across as flawed human beings. At the same time, most plays take care to provide good insights into the artists geni

Author: Walter R. Bodine
Publisher: Scholars Pre
Keywords: offers, literature, biblical, analysis, discourse
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 1995-10-08
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0788500104
ISBN-13: 9780788500107

Author: Francis Kimani Githieya
Publisher: Scholars Press
Keywords: academy, american, religion, series, kenya, churches, spirit, african, indigenous, freedom
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1997-06
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0788501690
ISBN-13: 9780788501692

This book examines the history and ecclesiology of two African Independent Churches in Kenya, the African Orthodox Church (AOC) and the Arthi (Agikuyu Spirit Churches). Githieya considers whether these churches should be considered as Christian or ethnocentric movmements. He argues that the "true church" is not confined to the traditions inherent in this or that denomination, or in this or that country, but in the redeeming and liberating power of Jesus Christ. The church is a liberated community whose identity is provided by its relationship with God; at once Christian, African, and new.