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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...

Faith versus Fantasy in Computer GamingWilliam Bainbridge contends that the worlds of massively multiplayer online roleplaying games provide a new perspective on the human quest, one that combines the arts and simulates most aspects of real life. The quests in gameworlds also provide meaning for human action, in terms of narratives about achieving...

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