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Based on extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan and eight years of interviews, this book reviews the dynamics between Afghan and U.S. journalists, and the global diplomatic power of the American press within the context of the post-9/11 era.

Democracy Inside develops a grounded theory of democratic change, citizen agency, and institutions as fields of action. The book investigates contemporary participatory innovations in K-12 education, criminal justice, and city government that share power over tasks and decisions commonly treated as professional matters.

How are our ability and motivation to be creative shaped by the world around us? Becoming Creative compares experiences of classical, jazz, and traditional musicians in South Africa, Finland, and the US to reveal how beliefs, learning methods, relationships, institutions, and inequalities enable or inhibit the development of creativity.

Make Arts for a Better Life: A Guide for Working with Communities provides a ground-breaking model for arts advocacy. Aimed at a wide audience including educators, scholars, and project leaders, the Guide presents an in-depth approach to researching community artistic practices and to developing arts-based projects that address locally-defined needs.

Moving Otherwise offers a fascinating look at how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires enacted politics within political and economic violence from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. It is the first book on Argentine contemporary dance and it introduces a breadth of choreographers and practices to an English speaking audience.

More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a single contemporary ontology which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. Being and Motion sets out to remedy this lacuna in contemporary thought by providing a historical ontology of our present: an ontology of movement.

Teacher Evaluation in Music: A Guide for Music Teachers in the U. S. aims to help music teachers navigate the controversial terrain of teacher evaluation. This book is intended to help music teachers thrive within evaluation, find balance between advocating for themselves and their programs, and use teacher evaluation to improve teaching.

Bangkok Is Ringing is an on-the-ground sound studies analysis of the political protests that transformed Thailand in 2010-11. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with dissidents in Bangkok and beyond, the book analyzes how political dissidents must be sensitive to the ways that their sounding is constrained and channeled.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rites, Rights & Rhythms traces traditional Afro-Colombian currulao music from colonial slavery to today's black social movement. The book illuminates a history of struggles over the music's meanings, portraying one of the hemisphere's most important black cultures, and offering a theory of history traced through the performative practice of currulao.

Filthy Material brings together media theory, close reading, and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist obscenity. Examining the major figures of modernist obscenity trials like James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall, Filthy Material reveals the ways that twentieth-century obscenity was shaped by changes in the history of media.

Orpheus in Manhattan is a comprehensive biography of Schuman that draws heavily upon his writings and on other archival materials. Filled with new discoveries and revisions of the received historical narrative, Orpheus in Manhattan repositions Schuman as a major figure in America's musical life.

Breaking the Surface offers comprehensive discussions of the philosophy of holes and perforations, the linguistic anthropology of cut- and break-words, and the perceptual psychology of concavities. The book offers a revelatory way to handle the archaeological past and is a major step forward in the growing subdiscipline of art and archaeology.

Wonderful Design traces how music bestows glamour and offers a fresh look at the stylistic conventions by which glamour is embodied in film musicals.

Connecting the struggles of the past to those so tragically familiar in the present, author Tala Jarjour considers Syriac chant as living musical practice situated in its historic, social, and cultural context.

Using historical, contemporary, scholarly, and popular sources, Schultz traces the progress and pitfalls of women's involvement in sport. By attending to issues such as gender, sexuality, sex segregation, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, media coverage, and the sport-health connection, Schultz shows why women's sports are important for players, fans, and society.

In Defense of Gun Control argues why the United States should have at least moderate and perhaps serious gun control. LaFollette assesses the empirical evidence about the costs and benefits of extensive private gun ownership and proposes several specific gun control measures, and urge us to employ indirect measures to limit the harm caused by guns.

This book shows how the mentality of Putin and his team has shaped Russian politics over the past two decades and makes sense of the political choices of one of the world's most fascinating figures.

The Musical Language of Rock puts forth a new, comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of rock music. Combining a conventional music-analytic approach with statistical corpus analysis, the book shows how rock songs "play" with the conventions of the style, and how this contributes to their effect and appeal.