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Brian Eno's seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art. Author John T. Lysaker situates this album in the context of twentieth-century art music, where its ambitions and contributions to avant garde music practice become even more apparent.

Transatlantic Television Drama looks at how serial dramas like Black Mirror captivate US audiences, and what this reveals about the ways Americans and Brits relate to each other on and off the screen.

The Exchange of Words is a philosophical exploration of human testimony, specifically as a form of intersubjective understanding in which speakers communicate by making themselves accountable for the truth of what they say. This account weaves together themes from philosophy of language, moral psychology, action theory, and epistemology, for a new approach to this basic human phenomenon.

As an essential resource for music educators, this book provides an easy-to-follow guide to music improvisation instruction.

In French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema, author Hannah Lewis argues that debates about sound film resonated deeply within French musical culture of the early 1930s, and conversely, that discourses surrounding French musical styles and genres shaped cinematic experiments during the transition to sound.

Risk, Failure, Play takes readers through the politics of everyday life as experienced through fight sport training. It intertwines personal experience and scholarly research, producing powerful reflections on pleasure, mastery, vulnerability, pain, and identity.

This book provides new practical tools that bridge the gap between familiar, easy-to-use technology and musical practice to enhance musicianship and motivate students. Authors Mishra and Fast provide ideas for use with students of all levels, from beginners to musicians performing advanced repertoire.

Music Making Congregations explores how contemporary worship music has brought new modes of congregating into being within evangelical Christianity. Through ethnographies of concert, conference, church, public, and networked congregations, this book shows how music shapes evangelical community relative to other groups in North America and beyond.

Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives introduces readers to narrative traditions of the Old Testament and to methods of interpreting them. Considering literary analysis, words and texts in context, and reception history, this volume gives students an overview of how exegesis illuminates stories in the Bible.

What did it mean to be a Christian in the Roman Empire? In one of the inaugural titles of Oxford's new Essentials in Biblical Studies series, Harry O. Maier considers the multilayered social contexts that shaped the authors and audiences of the New Testament.

Talking Like Children is a series of captivating stories that show how age comes to be. Elise Berman analyzes adoption negotiations, efforts to keep food, and debates about supposed child abuse. In these situations, age differences emerge through the decisions people make, the emotions they feel, and the power they gain.

Investigates the effect that Isaac Newton's theories and discoveries had on the growth of science and the shape of modern thought and culture more broadly.

The Musical Gift tells Sri Lankan music history as a story of exchange between humans and nonhumans, and between human communities defined by difference. Sykes argues that histories of sonic generosity have a role to play in fostering reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka.

A new method of music theory education for undergraduate music students, Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento is grounded in schema theory and partimento, and takes an integrated, hands-on approach to the teaching of harmony and counterpoint in today's classrooms and studios.

Undocumented Storytellers offers a critical exploration of the ways undocumented immigrants harness the power of storytelling as a means of self-actualization, to mitigate the fear and uncertainty of life without legal status, and to advocate for immigration reform.

The economic modernization of the American Southwest and Mexico transformed the lives of ethnic Mexicans, subjecting them to economic exploitation and racism. Redeeming La Raza analyzes how political activists, using multiple strategies, challenged white supremacy, seeking to instill in ethnic Mexicans a sense of ethnic pride and unity.

How to Land offers a new look at embodiment that treats gravity as the organizing force for thinking and moving through our twenty-first century world.

This book examines the vibrant field of documentary filmmaking in Brazil from the transition to democracy in 1985 to the present with attention to the way the films of this period incorporate, reflect on, and reworks a variety of archival materials, including official documents, ethnographic images, and home movies and photo albums.

In Person looks at the ways that documentary film is affected when people are cast to reenact their own stories on screen.

Theories of the Soundtrack presents a comprehensive account of speculative thinking about film music and sound from major classical and contemporary theorists. The basic theoretical framework of each approach is presented, taking into account the explicit and implicit claims about the soundtrack and its relation to other theories.

Readers of the New Testament notice varying ideas about women. Some women are submissive and silent; others have titles of leaders or speak with approval. In this book, Susan Hylen guides readers through new interpretations of this evidence. She argues that women in the culture enacted feminine virtues in a variety of ways, including active leadership in their communities.

In Hip Hop Time goes beyond popular narratives of hip hop resistance, exploring Senegalese hip hop as a musical movement deeply tied to indigenous performance practices and changing social norms in urban Africa.

Media in Mind surveys more than a century of media theory to illustrate the ways that conceptual divisions have reflected and inflected media scholars' understanding of the mind.