Bøker av Eric Rice

America is at the brink of the precipice. Competing ideologies divide the citizens, setting neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother. In a time when facts are what anyone wants them to be, disinformation and mistrust of each other are the only truth being broadcast. As everyday Americans hunker down, trying to avoid becoming a statistic in the cancel culture wars, America is self-segregating into warring tribes, each believing the other is evil personified.From the obscurity of College History professor, decorated veteran Nick Turner finds himself thrust into the role of interim United States Senator. With neither political experience nor political baggage, he must quickly learn the ways of the most powerful political body in the world. Realizing the Washington political battlefield is every bit as deadly and diabolical as Afghanistan and Iraq, Nick develops new skills to survive, even as the nation faces a key turning point in its history.Through an accident of fate, Nick becomes the key vote on a piece of groundbreaking legislation. Legislation whose consequences, both intended and unintended, would alter the future of the Republic. Nick struggles against his Party, the Opposition, his conscience, and his obligation to defend the common citizen from certain disaster. Which way is right? How do you know? These are the questions as we discover, just What Can One Man Do?

First full-length consideration of the role played by young singers, bringing out its full significance and its development over time.Young singers played a central role in a variety of religious institutional settings: urban cathedrals, collegiate churches, monasteries, guilds, and confraternities. The training of singers for performance in religious services was so crucial as to shape the very structures of ecclesiastical institutions, which developed to meet the need for educating their youngest members; while the development of musical repertories and styles directly reflected the ubiquitous participation of children's voices in both chant and polyphony. Once choristers' voices had broken, they often pursued more advanced studies either through an apprenticeship system or at university, frequently with the help of the institutions to which they belonged. This volume provides the first wide-ranging book-length treatment of the subject, and will be of interest to music historians - indeed, all historians - who wish to understand the role of the young in sacred musical culture before 1700. SUSAN BOYNTON is Associate Professor of Historical Musicology at Columbia University; ERIC RICE is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Connecticutat Storrs. CONTRIBUTORS: SUSAN BOYNTON, SANDRINE DUMONT, JOSEPH DYER, JANE FLYNN, ANDREW KIRKMAN, NOEL O'REGAN, ALEJANDRO PLANCHART, RICHARD RASTALL, COLLEEN REARDON, ERIC RICE, JUAN RUIZ JIMENEZ, ANNE BAGNALL YARDLEY