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Music Downtown Eastside offers an in-depth look at how music-making can promote human rights among the homeless and others living in urban neighborhoods marked by poverty. Author Klisala Harrison critically examines a wide range of local initiatives and shows how they can help vulnerable citizens develop their capabilities but also sometimes unwittingly harm them.

This book is a highly accessible and up-to-date introduction to the key ideas of Sonata Theory, one of the most influential methods for analyzing the sonata form. Teaching the method primarily by example, it features close readings of masterpieces by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms.

The Book of Common Prayer is a sacred text in more than one sense. This brief, accessible survey examines the contents of the Prayer Book, as it is called, especially its principal services, as well as its origins, its revisions, and its sometimes controversial reception as a cultural icon and a focus of identity for Anglican Christianity.

In this book author Cathy Benedict offers practical suggestions to help elementary and middle school teachers and students think critically about the world around them, by engaging with themes such as friendship, racism, poverty, religion, and class.

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. This book investigates how different movement operations interact with one another, focusing on the special case of smuggling, in which displacement occurs in two steps thus allowing for otherwise inaccessible movement operations.

Jonathan Morduch and Timothy Ogden define the fundamental components of finance and explain in straightforward language how the lack of financial inclusion reinforces broader inequities in our society. The book answers core questions: What is financial inclusion? Why does it matter? How does it work? When doesn't it work? What are the risks?

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This cultural history of La Boheme traces its rise to global fame. It demonstrates how the opera's prominence in popular culture, the inventiveness of its directors and performers, and its enduring themes of gender, poverty, and nostalgia have captured audiences' imagination for more than 120 years.

A practical book with advice for both oboists and their teachers, Great Oboists on Music and Musicianship offers insights into musical craft, performance techniques, learning strategies, pedagogy, and much more as collected from twenty-six of the world's most prominent oboists.

Tandem Dances: Choreographing Immersive Performance proposes dance and choreography as frames through which to examine immersive theater.

Through original and highly detailed fieldwork on five under-studied languages of West Africa, Jason Kandybowicz develops a novel theory of the interaction between the distribution of interrogative expressions and the sound system of a language. The book also considers data from thirteen additional typologically diverse languages to demonstrate the theory's reach and extendibility.

John Mortensen's The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation is a course-tested pedagogical method for learning to improvise, providing intermediate-level pianists with a path to mastery of the improvisational techniques of the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Last Word tells the story of a handful of insiders who used fiction as a way to expose the harsh realities behind the silver screen. Unauthorized and unfiltered, these works uncover a new history of Hollywood during the studio era.

A unique theory of gender inequality and governance, Capable Women, Incapable States forces us to rethink the effects of rights activism across large parts of the world where political mobilization for rights confront negligent criminal justice systems.

Panpipes and Ponchos offers the first detailed historical study of the Bolivian folkloric music movement, showing how musical practices developed by the politically dominant, nonindigenous residents of twentieth-century La Paz city came to be misrepresented as pre-Columbian, indigenous folk music.

The Art of Cinematic Storytelling is a practical and accessible introduction to effective design of shots, cuts, and transitions in filmmaking. The author, an experienced storyboard artist who worked on hundreds of television and film projects, invites readers to learn how to tell a story and create emotions through moving images.

In Choreographing in Color, J. Lorenzo Perillo draws on nearly two decades of ethnography, choreographic analysis, and community engagement to ask: what does it mean for Filipinos to navigate violent forces of empire and neoliberalism with street dance and Hip-Hop?