Oxford University Press

Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual PerformancePlaying Along shows how video games and social media are bridging virtual and        visceral experience, transforming our understanding of musicality, creativity, play,        and participation....

Performance and Analysis of LiederFocusing on the music of the great song composers--Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Strauss--Poetry Into Song offers a systematic introduction to the performance and analysis of Lieder . Part I, "e;The Language of Poetry,"e; provides chapters on the themes and imagery of German Romanticism and the...

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Our modern lifestyles, city-bound with abundant nutrition - are far removed from the hunter-gatherer lifestyles of our ancestors. However we have not evolved to reflect this change. This fascinating and controversial book explores whether it is this 'mismatch' that has led to the deadly explosion in lifestyle diseases we face today....

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