The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition 9780300260601, 9780300223828

The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition 9780300260601

“A typically wise and thoughtful book, which manages to combine a wealth of unexpected information with an immensely rea

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Adventures in Paradox: Don Quixote and the Western Tradition 9780271072234

Cervantes’s Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most exper

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Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition 0195166108, 9780195166101, 9781423733911

A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical music as a case study. Jana

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The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradition 0226575160

Daniel M. Neuman offers an account of North Indian Hindustani music culture and the changing social context of which it

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The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradition 0226575160

Daniel M. Neuman offers an account of North Indian Hindustani music culture and the changing social context of which it

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Technology in the Western Political Tradition 9781501744662

This well-integrated group of thirteen papers addresses the intriguing and perplexing issue of whether modern government

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Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition 9781474445344

Analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested Q

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The Classical Tradition in Western Art [Reprint 2014 ed.] 9780674422797, 9780674422780

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Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition 9781474440868

A survey of modern cinematic and televisual responses to the concept of the golden age This collection of fourteen essa

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The I.B.Tauris History of Monasticism: The Western Tradition 9780755625451, 9781848853768

From the earliest centuries of the church, asceticism and the contemplative life have been profoundly important aspects

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