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academic trade Joseph Horowitz Moral Fire Musical Portraits from America’s Fin de Siècle Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: “If the Met’s screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy.” Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalities— Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Ives—whose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love. Joseph Horowitz is the author of Understanding Toscanini, Wagner Nights (UC Press), Classical Music in America, and Artists in Exile. Previously a New York Times music critic, he is currently Artistic Director of Washington DC’s Post-Classical Ensemble. A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book APRIL 256 pages, 6 x 9”, 12 b/w photographs American Music/US History World cloth 978-0-520-26744-2 $39.95sc/£27.95 David Schiff The Ellington Century Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately—classical, jazz, and popular—this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music. Placing Duke Ellington (1899–1974) at the center of the story, David Schiff explores music written during the composer’s lifetime in terms of broad ideas such as rhythm, melody, and harmony. He shows how composers and performers across genres shared the common pursuit of representing the rapidly changing conditions of modern life. The Ellington Century demonstrates how Duke Ellington’s music is as vital to musical modernism as anything by Stravinsky, more influential than anything by Schoenberg, and has had a lasting impact on jazz and pop that reaches from Gershwin to contemporary R&B. David Schiff is R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music at Reed College. He is the author of George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and The Music of Elliot Carter. A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book FEBRUARY 320 pages, 6 x 9” Music/Jazz/Classical Music World cloth 978-0-520-24587-7 $34.95sc/£24.95 www.ucpress.edu | 27
academic trade Lisa Jarnot Robert Duncan The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919–1988), one of America’s great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot takes us from Duncan’s birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco as an openly gay man who became an inspirational figure for the many poets and painters who gathered around him. Weaving together quotations from Duncan’s notebooks and interviews with those who knew him, Jarnot vividly describes his life on the West Coast and in New York City and his encounters with luminaries such as Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Paul Goodman, Michael McClure, H.D., William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson. Lisa Jarnot is a poet and an independent scholar. She has taught at Brooklyn College and the Naropa Institute and is the author of four books of poetry. MAY 481 pages, 6 x 9”, 19 b/w illustrations Biography/Poetry/American Literature World cloth 978-0-520-23416-1 $39.95sc/£27.95 Mara Einstein Compassion, Inc. How Corporate America Blurs the Line between What We Buy, Who We Are, and Those We Help Pink ribbons, red dresses, and greenwashing—American corporations are scrambling to tug at consumer heartstrings through cause-related marketing, corporate social responsibility, and ethical branding, tactics that can increase sales by as much as 74%. Harmless? Marketing insider Mara Einstein demonstrates in this penetrating analysis why the answer is a resounding “No!” In Compassion, Inc. she outlines how cause-related marketing desensitizes the public by putting a pleasant face on complex problems. She takes us through the unseen ways in which large sums of consumer dollars go into corporate coffers rather than helping the less fortunate. She also discusses companies that truly do make the world a better place, and those that just pretend to. Mara Einstein is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College. She is the author of Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age. APRIL 242 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 line illustration Business/Sociology World cloth 978-0-520-26652-0 $29.95sc/£19.95 28 | University of California Press
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