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Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century is an insightful and practical interpretive guide to contemporary repertoire assembled by celebrated soprano Jane Manning. This second of the two-volume set covers works composed after the year 2000.

Form as Harmony in Rock Music investigates the formal-harmonic structures of classic rock of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, demonstrating how artists across decades and genres have unified under similar compositional structures and a single musical style.

A New Handbook for Singers and Teachers presents a comprehensive study of not only how to sing but how to teach singing, designed to help vocalists and teachers work together toward musical proficiency and artistic maturity.

In Georges Bizet's Carmen-the latest volume in the Oxford Keynotes series-author Nelly Furman explores the evolution of Carmen's story and its meaning, illuminating how the titular heroine has maintained her status as a universally recognizable cultural icon.

Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change explores the rise of social-issue documentaries, focusing on the behind-the-scenes grassroots tactics and real-world social impact of such influential films as Blackfish, The Invisible War, 13th, and Citizenfour.

What is property, and why does our species happen to have it? In The Property Species, the economist Bart Wilson explores how we acquire, perceive, and know the custom of property, and why this might be relevant to social scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars for understanding how property works in the twenty-first century.

A bold new account of its subject, Cinema Expanded provides the first scholarly studies of lesser-known avant-garde cinematic works, in addition to the works of artists like Andy Warhol and Nam June Paik, and argues that these works radically explore cinema's outer limits, even challenging the definition of cinema itself.

Interactive Visual Ideas for Musical Classroom Activities offers practical tips, tricks, resources, and 50 activities ideal to use alongside classroom projection systems.

Robert Kildwardby is an accessible overview of the life and works of Robert Kilwardby, one of the most influential but under-studied thinkers of the Late Middle Ages. Silva offers a clear account of Kilwardby's work as a philosopher and theologian, addressing the full scope of his work and its historical significance in regards to the developments of later medieval philosophy.

The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays is a practical handbook for students doing history coursework at undergraduate or master's levels. Chapters focus on each common type of history writing assignment, with concrete, step-by-step instructions, exercises, and examples tailored to the specific goals of each assignment type.

The Fascist Turn in the Dance of Serge Lifar is the first book not only to discuss the resistance to Lifar in the French press at the start of his much-mythologized career, but also the first to present substantial evidence of Lifar's collaborationism and relate it to his artistic profile during the preceding decade.

Radicalization to Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know synthesizes original and existing research to answer the questions raised after each new terrorist attack. It enables readers to see beyond the relentless news cycle to understand where terrorism comes from - and how best to respond to it.

Loving Stones is a study of devotees' conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna.

Making it Personal offers a thoughtful analysis and up-to-date contextualization of the issues around of algorithmic personalization, bridging the gap between algorithmic intervention and individual user perception, experience, and negotiation.

Practical Music Education Technology provides budget-friendly options and strategies that can be tailored to the needs of individual school environments. The book is essential reading for teachers on limited budgets looking to teach meaningfully with technology.

In The Art of Pure Cinema, Bruce Isaacs reexamines Alfred Hitchcock's filmography through the lens of what Hitchcock termed "the purest expression of a cinematic idea," and investigates whether or not Hitchcock actually achieved this ideal of pure cinema over his long and storied career.

A groundbreaking social history of the drum kit, Matt Brennan's Kick It makes a compelling case for the instrument as one of most important and transformative musical inventions of the modern era.