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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?

Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz uncovers Latin jazz's rich intercultural heritage, exploring its Caribbean and Latin American musical roots, its ability to transcend genre boundaries, and its inseparability from issues of ethnicity and nation.

The first cross-disciplinary history of theorizing adaptation, Theorizing Adaptation covers the full history of the topic and finds shared ground upon which adaptation scholars can dialogue and debate productively across disciplinary, cultural, and theoretical borders.

Slavery and Class in the American South reveals how work, family, and connections that made for socioeconomic differences among the enslaved of the South are critical components of the American slave narrative.

Are cyber operations as revolutionary as the headlines suggest? Do they compel rival states and alter international politics? By examining cyber strategy as a contemporary form of political warfare and covert action, this book demonstrates that the digital domain complements rather than replaces traditional instruments of power.