Author: Michael Kaufmann
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: puritan, new, england, nostalgia, exile, individualism, conversion, institutional
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0819563528
ISBN-13: 9780819563521

Exploring the means by which individuals define themselves in relation to their institutional affiliations.

Author: Loren Graham
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: series, poetry, wesleyan, mose
Number of Pages: 66
Published: 1994-11-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0819512206
ISBN-13: 9780819512208

A striking interplay of content and style makes this book-length narrative poem a wrenching, compelling tale. Mose is incarcerated in a Texas prison for a crime whose circumstances slowly unfold as he numbers the days of his sentence and fantasizes about a woman inexorably tied to his fate. As the harshness of prison life begins to close in and distort Mose’s consciousness, he is increasingly obsessed with the truth of what happened. In the end, that inquiry reveals to him "another world underneath / this one" where everything "is backwards / to what we want." The journey to that world i

Authors:Paul D. Greene, Thomas Porcello,
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: cultures, music, culture, sonic, technologies, sound, engineering, wired
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-12-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0819565172
ISBN-13: 9780819565174

Wired for Sound is the first anthology to address the role of sound engineering technologies in the shaping of contemporary global music. Wired sound is at the basis of digital audio editing, multi-track recording, and other studio practices that have powerfully impacted the world’s music. Distinctions between musicians and engineers increasingly blur, making it possible for people around the globe to imagine new sounds and construct new musical aesthetics. This collection of 11 essays employs primarily ethnographical, but also historical and psychological, approaches to examine a range

Author: Helena Simonett
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: borders, music, culture, across, life, mexican, musical, banda
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-01-30
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0819564303
ISBN-13: 9780819564306

The first in-depth study of banda, a Mexican and Mexican American musical practice.

Author: Agha Shahid Ali
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: series, poetry, wesleyan, himalayas, inch
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1987-04-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0819511323
ISBN-13: 9780819511324

The Half-Inch Himalayas is a stellar collection of early work by the poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). His most recent volumes of poetry are Rooms Are Never Finished and The Country Without a Post Office. He is also the editor of Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English.

Author: Edmond Jabes
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: book, questions, vol, return, volume, yukel
Number of Pages: 404
Published: 1991-09-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0819562475
ISBN-13: 9780819562470

A meditative narrative of Jewish Experience and man’s relation to the world.

Author: John Cage
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: writings, lectures, silence
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1961-06-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0819560286
ISBN-13: 9780819560285

Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them. Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called writing through).