Marina Frolova-Walker’s fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin’s Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent...
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety.
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”Rock Fences of the Bluegrass” (”Stenstaket i Bluegrass (Kentucky)” – en grundläggande historisk-kulturell studie av Carolyn Murray-Wooley och Karl Raitz, ägnad åt de traditionella stenstaketen i centrala Kentucky – regionen...
The Story of Film presents the history of the movies in a way never told before. Mark Cousins’s chronological journey through the worldwide history of film is told from the point of view of filmmakers and moviegoers. Weaving personalities, film...