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Darker than Blue
Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois’ intellectual and political legacy. With his brilliant, provocative analysis and astonishing range of reference, Gilroy revitalizes the study of African American culture. He traces the shifting character of black intellectual and social movements, and shows how we can construct an account of moral progress that reflects today’s complex realities.
Hardcover January 2010
Ambrosiana at Harvard
Edited by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Edited by Matthew Mugmon
This collection of ten essays constitutes the proceedings of a two-day conference held at Harvard in October 2007. The conference focused on three medieval manuscripts of Ambrosian chant owned by Houghton Library. The generously illustrated essays explore the manuscripts as physical objects and place them in their urban and historical contexts, as well as in the musical and ecclesiastical context of Milan, Italy, and medieval Europe.
Paperback December 2009
Lipstick Traces
Greil Marcus
This is a secret history of modern times, told by way of what conventional history tries to exclude. Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
Paperback November 2009
The Century of Bach & Mozart
Edited by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Edited by Sean Gallagher
For many today Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stand as towering representatives of European music of the eighteenth century, composers whose works reflect intellectual, religious, and aesthetic trends of the period. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the field offers a variety of new perspectives on the two composers, as well as some of their important contemporaries, Haydn in particular.
Paperback September 2009

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