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Culture Studies

Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960

Fry Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780226138817, ISBN: HB: 9780226138787, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 17 line drawings

The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as...

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Asia

Culture Studies

Politics of Dialogic Imagination Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan

Hirano Katsuya

ISBN: PB: 9780226060569, ISBN: HB: 9780226060422, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination", Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-d...

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Poetry

Culture Studies

Poetry and Its Others News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres

Ramazani Jahan

ISBN: PB: 9780226083568, ISBN: HB: 9780226083735, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system – "suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse", in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in "Poetry and Its Others", Jahan Ramazani reveals modern and contemp...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Post-Post-Soviet Art, Politics and Society in Russia at the Turn of the Decade

Dziewanska Marta, Degot Ekaterina, Budratskis Ilya

ISBN: PB: 9788393381845, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, July 2013
300 pp., 19x14 cm

Not for sale in Poland! By placing emerging artists in their political and social contexts, this collection attempts to confront the new activist scene that has arisen in the Russian art world during the past years. The recent explosion of protests...

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Performing Arts

Culture Studies

Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life

Gross Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226005508, ISBN: HB: 9780226309583, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 22x14 cm, 24 halftones, 4 colour illus.

The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gestu...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Peak District A Cultural History

Bull John

ISBN: PB: 9781908493064, Signal Books, May 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Peak District" was Britain's first National Park and the "breathing space" for people in the great cities of the industrial north. Prehistoric man built stone circles at Stanton-in-the-Moor and Arbor Low and the Romans had...

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America

Culture Studies

Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

Dassow Walls Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226871837, ISBN: HB: 9780226871820, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Privilege of Crisis Narratives of Masculinities in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Photography, and Film

Yekani Elahe Haschemi

ISBN: PB: 9783593393995, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
320 pp., 22x14 cm

Despite the understanding of scholars that masculinity, far from being a natural or stable concept, is in reality a social construction, the culture at large continues to privilege an idealized, coherent male point of view".The Privilege of Crisis" d...

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Culture Studies

Philadelphia Barrio The Arts, Branding, and Neighborhood Transformation

Wherry Frederick F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226894324, ISBN: HB: 9780226894317, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
208 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 maps, 7 tables, 23 halftones, 2 line illus.

How does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material conditions or picking the savviest marketing strategy? What kind of role can or should the arts play in that process? Does gentrificat...

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Culture Studies

Pick of the Bunch The Story of Twelve Treasured Flowers

Willes Margaret

ISBN: HB: 9781851243037, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2009
224 pp., 19.4x19.4 cm, 70 colour illus.

The list of favorite flowers has remained remarkably constant over the centuries. From late-sixteenth, early seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish flower-pieces we can see what were considered desirable at that time: the rose, iris, carnation and lil...

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