A compelling portrait of this enigmatic musical genius within the context of the cultural and political currents of his time

The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music.

Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janácek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerfu

A cultural history of the Czech people, examining the significance of the small central European nation's artistic, literary, and political developments from it

Death, Beauty, Struggle contains an original vision of gendered lives, poetry, devotion, and social hierarchy in Tamil Nadu.