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Medicine ................................103 We set the standard for We value • The quality and validation of content • Integrity and rigour • Design, production and printing • Creativity and innovation • Cooperation with authors • Trust and collaboration • Meeting our customers’ needs Art / Music Art Venice and the Veneto Edited by Peter Humfrey This volume provides an account of the art and architecture of Venice and Pop Art and the Contest over the principal cities of the Venetian mainland empire in the Renaissance, American Culture from 1450 to1600. Thematically organized, it puts special emphasis Sara Doris | University of Memphis on the relationship between art and the political, social, and religious Pop Art and the Contest Over American Culture institutions of the Venetian Republic. examines the socially and aesthetically subversive • Venetian Renaissance art is discussed in its full historical context character of pop art. Providing a historically • Art of Venice is complemented and contrasted with that of its subject contextualized reading of American pop art, Sara cities on the Italian mainland Doris locates the movement within the larger • Separate chapters are contributed by a distinguished team of scholars framework of the social, cultural, and political transformations of the 1960s. Western art | Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance • First full-scale scholarly re-evaluation of American Pop Art in the last October 2007 279 x 215 mm 416pp eight years, bringing our understanding of the movement up to date 978-0-521-80843-9 Hardback £85.00 A • Provides the first historical accounting of Pop Art’s role in the emergence of postmodernist culture • Broad cultural and historical contextualization will appeal to those Music interested in visual studies, cultural studies, American studies and history Western Music and Race Western art Edited by Julie Brown | Royal Holloway, University of May 2007 253 x 177 mm 316pp London 978-0-521-83658-6 Hardback £48.00 A This contributory volume, the first book of its kind, provides a snapshot of the ways in which discourse Early Hellenistic Portraiture about Western music and race overlapped and Image, Style, Context became intertwined during the period from Edited by Peter Schultz | The Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota Wagner’s death in 1883 to the rise of National Examines the styles and contexts of portrait statues produced during Socialism and fascism elsewhere in Europe, c. one of the most dynamic eras of Western art, the early Hellenistic age. 1933. Using methodologies from a wide range of fields, an international team • Chapters cover music in a range of European countries, as well as of experts investigates problems that have consistently marked this North America, providing a broad perspective on the topic fascinating body of ancient material culture. • Contributors to the volume are leading scholars in the field • Written by an international team of experts • Contains a large number of illustrations and music examples, helping • Wide methodological range to bring the subject matter to life • Lavishly illustrated Music (general) Western art August 2007 247 x 174 mm 344pp 11 half-tones 1 map 21 music examples July 2007 253 x 177 mm 304pp 978-0-521-83887-0 Hardback £50.00 A 978-0-521-86659-0 Hardback £55.00 A Heinrich Heine and the Lied Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Susan Youens | University of Notre Dame, Indiana Early Modern Europe Susan Youens asks why the poet Heinrich Heine Caroline Van Eck | Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands (1797–1856) had such an impact on the history of In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts nineteenth-century song. From the 1820s until the interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though mid-century mark, Heine was the poet of choice for originally developed for persuasive speech, has always used the visual composers who found in this new poetic language as an important means of persuasion, and hence offers a number of the means for cutting-edge tonal experiments. strategies and concepts for visual persuasion as well. • First scholarly work to examine the reasons for • First study to look at the role of rhetoric in the arts and architecture Heinrich Heine’s importance in music history from an integrated perspective • Contains many illustrative music examples and images • Considers both art and architecture • Analyzes the cultural influence of Heine’s work on music and art • Engages with, and builds on recent developments in visual culture and Music (general) visual theory studies October 2007 247 x 174 mm 376pp 18 half-tones 79 music examples Western art 978-0-521-82374-6 Hardback c. £55.00 A July 2007 253 x 177 mm 240pp 978-0-521-84435-2 Hardback £45.00 A Order at www.cambridge.org/booksellers or PubEasy.com Music The Cambridge Companion to The Invention of “Folk Music” Mahler and “Art Music” Edited by Jeremy Barham | University of Surrey Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler’s Matthew Gelbart | Boston College, Massachusetts death, this book offers the only comprehensive, This book considers the origins and implications single-volume study in English of his music and of the way in which we categorize music today. musical activities. Contributions from a collection Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art of distinguished Mahler scholars discuss works in music became meaningful concepts only in the all genres and from all periods, and investigate his late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, lifelong career as conductor. and affect the way we create, perform and listen • Comprehensive coverage of Mahler’s works, providing the reader with to music. a balanced overview • Shows the relation of musical thought to many other fields, including • Includes a discography and a detailed chronology history and anthropology, and suggests causes and effects between • Chapters consider Mahler in the context of surrounding cultural and them political events • Gives a history of our current ways of labelling and conceptualizing Music (general) | Cambridge Companions to Music music December 2007 247 x 174 mm 320pp 6 half-tones 5 tables • The book is designed around major themes within the

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