Oxford University Press

Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and SuccessionThe death of Pope John Paul II and consequent election of Pope Benedict XVI has shed light on a political process that the world has not been privy to for almost twenty-six years. People from around the world gathered in St. Peter&'s Square, wondering who the next Vatican leader would be and how the...

During the 1970s, monetarism and the new classical macroeconomics ushered in an era of neoliberal economic policymaking. Keynesian economics was pushed aside. It was almost forgotten that when Keynesian thinking had dominated economic policymaking in the middle decades of the twentieth century, it had coincided with postwar economic reconstruction...

Chinese and Japanese Policy toward European Jewish Refugees during World War IIShanghai Sanctuary assesses the plight of the European Jewish refugees who fled to Japanese-occupied China during the Second World War. It is the first major study to examine the Nationalist government's policy towards the Jewish refugee issue and the most thorough...

Video and the Rise of Art-MusicSounding the Gallery argues that early video art is an audiovisual genre. The new video technology not only enabled artists to sound their visual work and composers to visualise their music during the 1960s: it also initiated a spatial form of engagement that encouraged new relationships between art / music practices...

Marathi Devotional Performance and NationalismSinging a Hindu Nation is a study of rashtriya kirtan, a western Indian performance medium that combines song, Hindu philosophical discourse, and nationalist storytelling. Author Anna Schultz demonstrates how, through this particular form of musical performance, the political becomes devotional, and...

A Curriculum Using TechnologyTeaching Music through Composition offers a practical, fully multimedia curriculum designed to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition. Author and award-winning music educator Barbara Freedman presents classroom-tested ways of teaching composition with technology as a tool with...