Oxford University Press

The author begins by offering a brief history of the idea of the Antichrist and its origins in the apocalyptic thought in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and traces the eventual migration of the Antichrist legend across the Atlantic....

Carl Schachter is the pre-eminent practitioner in the world of the Schenkerian approach to the music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which focuses on the linear organization of music, and which now dominates discussions of the standard repertoire in university courses and in professional journals. This volume gathers some of his finest...

Philosophical EssaysDo art and pornography overlap, or are the two mutually exclusive? If they are, why is that? Art and Pornography explores the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature. A team of leading scholars develops a subtle understanding of sexual imagery and themes, in a range of cultural...

Norteno Tejano Legacies includes audio CD#N/A...

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....

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