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Music

Vaudeville Melodies Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929

Gebhardt Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780226448695, ISBN: HB: 9780226448558, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying the groundwork for the music industry we know today...

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Business & Economics

Down and Out in the New Economy How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today

Gershon Ilana

ISBN: HB: 9780226452142, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd call the company a week later to ch...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2016 Volume 17

Greenstein Shane M., Lerner Joshua, Stern Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226489858, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2017
288 pp., 23x15 cm

The seventeenth volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research's "Innovation Policy and the Economy" provides an accessible forum for bringing the work of leading academic researchers to an audience of policymakers and those interested in the int...

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Music

America

Flavor and Soul Italian America at Its African American Edge

Gennari John

ISBN: HB: 9780226428321, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
296 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers – "The Colored Mario" – all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur...

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Contemporary Art

Dianna Frid + Richard Rezac Split Complementary

Girson Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780985096021, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
76 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 56 colour plates

Dianna Frid's sculptures, installations, artist's books, and mixed media work explore the intersection of text and textile, matter and subject matter. Richard Rezac has created thought-provoking abstract object-sculptures since the 1980s. This book,...

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Business & Economics

After the Flood How the Great Recession Changed Economic Thought

Glaeser Edward L., Santos Tano, Weyl E. Glen

ISBN: HB: 9780226443546, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 19 line drawings, 15 tables

The past three decades have been characterized by vast change and crises in global financial markets – and not in politically unstable countries but in the heart of the developed world, from the Great Recession in the United States to the banking cri...

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History

Curators Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums

Grande Lance

ISBN: HB: 9780226192758, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
432 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 146 colour plates

Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, fu...

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Reference

Art of Creative Research A Field Guide for Writers

Gerard Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226179803, ISBN: HB: 9780226179773, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing, archives but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world – when they scribble an observation on the subway, when they travel to get the feel for a...

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Contemporary Art

Rafael Soriano The Artist as Mystic / El artista como mistico

Goizueta Elizabeth T.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850270, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, February 2017
200 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 90 colour plates, 50 figures

Cuban painter Rafael Soriano (1920-2015) was an acclaimed master of geometric abstraction and a global figure in the twentieth-century art world – his work resonated with such international artists of Latin American origin as Roberto Matta, Rufino Ta...

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Anthropology

General

African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

Goldstone Brian, Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...

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