大学出版Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781399422864
Peter Ormerod
{"title":"David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God","authors":"Peter Ormerod","doi":"10.5040/9781399422864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781399422864","url":null,"abstract":"<JATS1:p>'The Bowie you thought you knew is recast completely'Helen Barrett,The Spectator</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>'a transfixing look at David Bowie's life through a spiritual lens... fresh and revealing'Publishers WeeklyThe story of how David Bowie's search for meaning inspired him to write the music that defined a generation.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>In this wide-ranging biography, Peter Ormerod explores the quest for spirituality that powered David Bowie's creativity from his earliest recordings to his death-defying final album. Bowie’s genre-expanding, era-crossing genius had an extraordinary impact on popular culture but his life-long search for spiritual truth and enlightenment has been overlooked.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>From Bowie's first musical encounters as a choirboy, this book traces his spiritual obsessions over the years. As a young musician at the start of his career, he was enraptured by Tibetan Buddhism. It was the first step in a spiritual journey that would generate his most profound lyrics and music. From the Kabbalah-influenced tracks of Station to Station to Ziggy Stardust's messiah complex and the profound affinity between Heroes and Christian thought, Ormerod sheds new light on the spiritual traditions behind Bowie's genius.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>Taking Bowie’s spiritual explorations and faith seriously, Ormerod shows us how this quest for meaning propelled him through his darkest moments and biggest successes, lending his music a timelessness and depth that has spoken to so many people across the world. Whether experiencing a dark night of the soul in LA during his occult phase or reciting the Lord's prayer in front of thousands of concertgoers, Bowie was always searching for that universal truth that lies beyond everyday reality.</JATS1:p>","PeriodicalId":57896,"journal":{"name":"大学出版","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147899395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
大学出版Pub Date : 2025-12-16DOI: 10.5040/9798765165881
James Greene
{"title":"Magnum Opus","authors":"James Greene","doi":"10.5040/9798765165881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765165881","url":null,"abstract":"<JATS1:p>By 1993, Guns N’ Roses had hit practically every benchmark possible for a rock n’ roll band.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>Their eight-year journey had included an explosive and game-changing debut record, a self-indulgent but even more successful double album release, a handful of raucous global tours, and various front-page controversies over their lyrics, band members’ drug addictions, and lead singer Axl Rose’s rattlesnake temper.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>The most captivating part of the Guns N’ Roses story was just beginning, however. A fifteen-year saga was about to unfold over the creation of the group’s sixth studio album,Chinese Democracy—a perverse and jaw-dropping tale that would come to involve not only a small nation of diverse musical talent but also several figures from the world of professional sports, a multinational soft drink company, and the FBI. Cultural critics couldn’t agree if the resulting work was unprecedented genius or a criminally mediocre.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>Magnum Opus: The Unbelievable 15-Year Saga of Guns N’ Roses’Chinese Democracy recounts in engaging depth and detail the long and often ludicrous road to the last mythic rock ’n’ roll album of the 20th Century. Of course, Chinese Democracy was not released until well into the 21st Century, andMagnum Opusassembles a thrilling narrative of the mishaps, detours, and near-death experiences that accompanied the long journey to its release. Combining outrageous facts and never-before-told stories from as many direct sources as possible, this is the definitive story of a famously troubled album that will allow rock ’n’ roll die-hards to finally separate truth from fan lore and outright fabrications.</JATS1:p>","PeriodicalId":57896,"journal":{"name":"大学出版","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147917547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
大学出版Pub Date : 2025-06-29DOI: 10.4324/9781003665052-2
Paul Karakusevic, Mike Althorpe
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大学出版Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350451278
Paul R. Laird, Elizabeth Sallinger
{"title":"Orchestration in Musical Theatre","authors":"Paul R. Laird, Elizabeth Sallinger","doi":"10.5040/9781350451278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350451278","url":null,"abstract":"<JATS1:p>Orchestration in Musical Theatre offers an analytic and critical overview of the practice, execution, and effects of orchestration in musical theatre since the time that rock music became significant in the genre. Broadly described as the art of arranging a piece of music for a particular musical ensemble, orchestration is a specific skill that few composers or songwriters possess. This volume helps the reader understand and appreciate the art of orchestration and traces how the incorporation of rock and other types of popular music into scores for musical theatre on Broadway and in the West End fundamentally changed the genre’s sound. From discussions of specific instrumentation through to a brief history of the art, this book demystifies how different instrumentation contributes to a show’s soundscape.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>Featuring case studies from shows such as Hair, The Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, Wicked, and Hamilton, this accessible and engaging volume in the Topics in Musical Theatre series gives students the tools to identify and discuss how orchestration contributes to the drama, characterization and dramaturgy of the modern musical.</JATS1:p>","PeriodicalId":57896,"journal":{"name":"大学出版","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147905666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
大学出版Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350087064
{"title":"Twelfth Night","authors":"","doi":"10.5040/9781350087064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350087064","url":null,"abstract":"<JATS1:p>This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Twelfth Night was received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism from key literary figures such as Thomas De Quincey, Charles Knight, Mary Cowden Clarke, Charles Lamb, George Bernard Shaw and Caroline F. E. Spurgeon. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. The volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Twelfth Night and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.</JATS1:p>","PeriodicalId":57896,"journal":{"name":"大学出版","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147887171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
大学出版Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350399006
{"title":"Merchant of Venice","authors":"","doi":"10.5040/9781350399006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350399006","url":null,"abstract":"<JATS1:p>This volume documents the full tradition of criticism of The Merchant of Venice ranging from 1775 to 1939. </JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>The Merchant of Venice has always been regarded as one of Shakespeare's most interesting plays, though it poses many challenges due to what is seen as its inherent anti-Semitism. Before the 19th century critical reaction is relatively fragmentary, but between then and the late 20th century the critical tradition reveals the power of the play to evoke emotion in the theatre. Since the middle of the 20th century, reactions to the drama have been influenced by the Nazi destruction of European Jewry.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>An extensive introduction charts the reactions to the play up to the beginning of the 21st century and reflects changing reactions to prejudice in this period. Material by a variety of critics appears here for the first time since initial publication, including from Malone, Hazlitt, Jameson, Heine, Knight, Lewes, Halliwell-Phillips, Furnivall, Irving, Ruskin, Swinburne, Masefield, Gollancz and Quiller-Couch.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>This revised edition features a new supplementary introduction by Gary Watt surveying and analyzing trends in criticism since the volume was first published in 2005, including a focus on: * Jewishness and anti-Semitism and the character of Shylock * mercantile, financial, risk, insurance, usury and credit * trial, law, rhetoric, equity and justice * gender, queer themes, cross-dressing and the Antonio-Bassanio relationship * race and colonialism.</JATS1:p>","PeriodicalId":57896,"journal":{"name":"大学出版","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147894855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
大学出版Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350416475
{"title":"Material Selves","authors":"","doi":"10.5040/9781350416475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350416475","url":null,"abstract":"<JATS1:p>What do Persian robes of honour, 20th-century still-life painting, fur garments, and 18th-century porcelain all have in common? Prized, possessed and modelled, they highlight the deep connections we share with cultural objects.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>Establishing new connections between people and things via artistic media and material culture, this highly interdisciplinary volume brings together both established and emerging scholars in the fields of art history, material culture, museum and heritage studies and literary studies to investigate the intersection of the personal with the material.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>Raising vital questions of cultural identity, belonging and selfhood,Material Selvesis the first book of its kind to consider the relationship between people and things across transcultural and transhistorical contexts. It employs innovative methodologies across ten chapters and critically expands on current models for understanding the dynamic relationship between people and things by tracing the central role objects have played in the construction, creation and performance of identity throughout history.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>Structured around four key sections exploring biography and narrative; adornment and ornament; reclamation and intervention; and subjects and objects, the volume presents a global selection of case studies that explore, amongst other things, Margaret Olley’s enduring fame, the significance of the Khil’a in Safavid Persia and early modern Europe, and 17th-century French painter Charles LeBrun’s royal portraiture. Fusing these with contemporary theories of identity, the contributors provide analyses informed by posthumanism, the environmental humanities, race and gender. At the same time, they confront vital questions of identity, agency, and materiality, and highlight the way in which we use objects to tell stories, construct myths and make sense of our place in the world. In doing so, the book illuminates a wide range of cultural and chronological settings whilst giving close attention to the mobility of people and things between, across, and through time and place.</JATS1:p>","PeriodicalId":57896,"journal":{"name":"大学出版","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147892312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
大学出版Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9798765106730
Darrell M. McNeill
{"title":"The Isley Brothers' 3+3","authors":"Darrell M. McNeill","doi":"10.5040/9798765106730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765106730","url":null,"abstract":"<JATS1:p>The Isley Brothers' 3+3, dissects The Isleys’ 50-year-old undisputed masterwork, an album that firmly established their music dynasty on a global scale, as well as heralding the boldest run of genre-defiant albums of their 65-year career. The 1973 watershed was their first multiplatinum release and is significant as a rare, crossover record by a Black act that struck a chord with urban, rock and pop consumers, despite the schisms between audiences due to bias-driven media and industry marketing.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>The book looks at the album from all angles: From The Isleys’ early career to their influence on rock and rollers both Black and White, from the twists and turns of having national hits without national recognition, onto their decision to form T-Neck Records and the group’s challenges navigating a music industry that racially codified music and hampered Black artists from universal acclaim and compensations--and finally a summation of the decades following The Isley’s run and its ups and downs, with a fast-forward to where the group is now after 65 years.</JATS1:p>","PeriodicalId":57896,"journal":{"name":"大学出版","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147897910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
大学出版Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350080546
James Graham
{"title":"The Culture - a Farce in Two Acts","authors":"James Graham","doi":"10.5040/9781350080546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350080546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":57896,"journal":{"name":"大学出版","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147903289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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