This Week's Stories: Conference Addresses U.S. Support for Research A Few Words on Proposition 1A Bloom Awarded $1.7 Million for Breast Cancer Survivor Research Faculty Profile: Shawn Brixey Conversations with History in Our Time Emotions Run High as Campus Opens Prop. 209 Dialogue In Indonesia, Biologist Discovers Second Population of Primitive Coelacanths Mortality Rates Differ Widely, Prostate Cancer Study Finds Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Rise from the Dead   Plant Biologist Kaplan Receives Pelton Award   Regular Features Books Campus Memos News Briefs		Books posted October 7, 1998 Imaging Sound An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art and Culture in Mughal India By Bonnie Wade Professor and Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Chair in Music The rulers of the Mughal Empire of India, who reigned from 1526 to 1858, spared no expense as patrons of the arts. They left as their legacy a rich body of commissioned artistic projects, including illustrated manuscripts and paintings that represent music-making in numerous spheres of Mughal court life, particularly that of women. These images form the basis of Wade's study on how musicians of Hindustan encountered and Indianized music from the Persian cultural sphere. 424 pages University of Chicago Press   Nisei/Sansei Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics By Jere Takahashi Lecturer in Asian American Studies Nisei/Sansei presents scholarly insights into the relationship between identity and politics for Japanese Americans, as it examines Japanese American politics from the 1920s to the 1970s. Through his socio-historical analysis, Takahashi develops a case for how the shifting economic and social context shapes the political options and strategies of Japanese Americans. 380 pages Temple University Press   The Adventures of a Shakespeare Scholar By Marvin Rosenberg Professor of Dramatic Art, Emeritus In this collection of essays, Rosenberg examines the aesthetics of the dramatic form, the cultural contexts in which Shakespeare's plays were created and perceived, the language and characters of the plays, and how critics and theatres of the world interpreted them. Rosenberg insists that Shakespeare's art fused poetry-of-the-word with poetry-of-the-theatre, each illuminating the other, inseparably. University of Delaware Press    [ Back to top ] .

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