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Traversing classical Hollywood to the cinema of Park Chan-wook, Gina Kim, and Ramona Diaz, and Cannes award-winning director Brilliante Mendoza, The Proximity of Other Skins looks at transnational films that achieved global prominence by presenting a different cinematic language of love and sex.

The Daode jing ("Book of the Dao and Its Virtue") is an essential work in both traditional Chinese culture and world philosophy. This guide provides an overview of the text, presenting its historical unfolding, its major concepts, and its contemporary use.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of different understandings of sin in early Christianity.

A vibrant study of music and protest that focuses on the Solidarity movement in 1980s Poland, Musical Solidarities explores how and why sound mattered to the opposition to state socialism. Unfurling the rich soundscapes of political action at demonstrations, church services, meetings, and in detention, it offers a nuanced portrait of this pivotal decade of European and global history.

Bossa Mundo chronicles how Brazilian music has been central to Brazil's national brand in the U.S. and U.K. since the early-1960s. Through in-depth historical and ethnographic analyses of watershed moments of musical breakthrough, it explores not just what the music may have represented at that moment, but details its deeper cultural impact.

Black Radio/Black Resistance tells the story of the decades-old, wildly popular Tom Joyner Morning Show, a drive-time syndicated and streaming show with progressive politics, wicked humor, and deeply satisfying adult soul music. As lively and funny as the show itself, Black Radio/Black Resistance illuminates American working and middle-class black lives and politics over the last quarter-century.

Humans versus Nature relates the history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relations between human societies and the natural environment in all regions of the world and tracing the current environmental crisis to its roots in the deep past.

Cultural Economies of Locative Media examines the enduring importance of location and, more specifically, the important role that location plays in regards to mobile devices.

Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City presents the first thorough history of calypso and steelband music outside the Caribbean, that emerged first in Harlem and later, Brooklyn.

In Narrow Fairways, Patrick Inglis tracks the experiences of poor lower-caste golf caddies at exclusive golf clubs in Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, as they struggle against caste and class discrimination to lift up themselves and their families.

The Classical Guitar Companion is a uniquely anthology that encourages students and teachers to create custom curricula for guitar study based on their own strengths and weaknesses.

How can we describe movements in animated films? In Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, Ryan Pierson introduces a powerful new method for the study of animation.

The People are King is the first ethnohistorical study of the transformation of Andean communities over three centuries, from the Inca era into the nineteenth century, which traces the movement of indigenous people toward self-government.

A Teaching Artist's Companion: How to Define and Develop Your Practice is a guide for working professional artists who also teach. With humor and hard-won insight, author Daniel Levy and other master teaching artists narrate their successes and failures, illustrating the essential techniques teaching artists need to thrive in the working world.

This book provides an accessible yet rigorous overview of the social welfare function (SWF) as a tool for evaluating governmental policies.

By arguing that this dissident Catholic's worldview is anti-anthropocentric, Angela Dalle Vacche concludes that Andre Bazin's idea of the cinema recapitulates the histories of biological evolution and modern technology inside our consciousness, unsettling our routines in productive ways and expanding our sense of belonging to a much larger picture.

Beyond Broadway travels across America to illustrate musical theatre's ubiquitous presence as a thriving national folk practice that touches millions of lives.

This volume is a wide-ranging examination of denial and ideological denialism. It offers a readable overview of the psychology and social science of bias, self-deception, and denial, and examines the role of ideological denialism in conflicts over science and public policy, politics, and culture.

Documenting how parents use music in family life to accomplish practical tasks, make relational connections, and guide their children's musical development, Parenting Musically presents a framework for understanding families' musical interactions in the home, at school, and in community settings using the concepts musical parenting/parenting musically and practical/relational musicking.

Sound Design is the New Score explores the new trend of blurring the line between score and sound design which has transformed contemporary film soundscape by rejecting the conventions of classical scoring and challenging the modes of perception it shaped.