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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “margaret beissinger”
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore

    Edited by Margaret H. Beissinger ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore provides a wide-ranging survey of the oral traditions of the Slavic and East European world. It covers national, ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic, and religious groups extending from the eastern zones of Russia to the western borders of the Czech Republic and from Estonia along the Baltic Sea to Greece at the southern tip of the Balkan ... Read more

    $283.99 CAD

  • Journal of Romanian Studies

    Volume 1,1 (2019)

    by Katherine Verdery, Vintila Mihailescu, Dennis Deletant, Maria Bucur, Marius Stan, Vladimir Tismaneanu ...
    Series Book 1.1 - Journal of Romanian Studies
    Contents Vintilă Mihăilescu A Subjective Centenary: The Peasant Footprint in Recent Romanian History Katherine Verdery Notes on a Century of Surveillance Dennis Deletant Shattered Illusions: Britain and Iuliu Maniu, 1940–1945 Maria Bucur The Queen Is No Sister: Three Faces of Marie of Romania Marius Stan and Vladimir Tismaneanu Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism in Romania: The Case of Alexandru Jar ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Manele in Romania

    Cultural Expression and Social Meaning in Balkan Popular Music

    Edited by Margaret Beissinger, Speranta Radulescu, Anca Giurchescu ...
    Series series Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
    This edited volume examines manele (sing. manea), an urban Romanian song-dance ethnopop genre that combines local traditional and popular music with Balkan and Middle Eastern elements. The genre is performed primarily by male Romani musicians at weddings and clubs and appeals especially to Romanian and Romani youth. It became immensely popular after the collapse of communism, representing for many ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Journal of Romanian Studies

    Volume 1,2 (2019)

    by Svetlana Suveica, Lucian Leuștean, Florian Kührer-Wielach, Gavin Bowd, Gábor Egry, Doina Anca Cretu ...
    Series Book 1.2 - Journal of Romanian Studies
    The new biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as a forum for junior and senior scholars. The journal also presents articles that connect Romania and Moldova ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • Why You Love Music

    From Mozart to Metallica—The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds

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  • The Music of the Plants

    For whon the plants play

    by Esperide Ananas ...
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  • Global Metal Music and Culture

    Current Directions in Metal Studies

    Edited by Karl Spracklen, Keith Kahn-Harris, Niall Scott, Andy Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Popular Music
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    Series series Routledge Key Guides
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  • Music's Immanent Future

    The Deleuzian Turn in Music Studies

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  • The Mystery of Chopin's Préludes

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    Chopin's twenty-four Préludes remain as mysterious today as when they were newly published. What prompted Franz Liszt and others to consider Chopin's Préludes to be compositions in their own right rather than introductions to other works? What did set Chopin's Préludes so drastically apart from their forerunners? What exactly was 'the morbid, the feverish, the repellent' that Schumann heard in ... Read more

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