Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary globalized musical culture has become ubiquitous and unremarkable, its fascinating origins long predate the internet era. In Music and the New Global Culture, Harry Liebersohn traces the origins of global music to a handful of critical transformations that took place between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century. In Britain, the ...

This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacific Northwest and returned the idea to Europea...

The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix of teachers and scholars produced innovations in agriculture, engineering and the arts that challenged old ideas and stimulated dynamic new industries. Projects ranging from the Mosaic web browser to the discovery of Archaea and pioneering triumphs in women's education and wheelchair accessibility have helped shape the university's mission into a double helix ...

Was einmal ein Minoritätenprogramm eigentümlicher Köpfe war, erlebt heute ein irritierendes Comeback - konservative Ästhetik. Das Neue in den Künsten ist nicht selten die Wiederentdeckung des Alten, in der Malerei wird die einstmals verpönte Gegenständlichkeit gefeiert, selbst Pop-Autoren unterwerfen sich dem Werk-Gedanken. Die Herbstausgabe der Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte konzentriert sich mit Hans Sedlmayr, Arnold Gehlen und Martin Heidegger auf Denker ambitionierter wie umstrittener...