Afternoon Songs

The Sunday afternoon song book [ed. by H.A. Kennedy].

Swarnakumari Debi

Swarnakumari Debi: Bengali Female Writer unpacks the scholarship of the 19th-century Bengal luminary. It explores Debi’s literary activism, assesses her works in a contemporary context, and explores possible reasons for her prolonged exclusion from the dominant discourse. Despite her reputation in the creative circles, Debi remains excluded from the literary canon and is often better known as the sister of writer, poet and social reformer Rabindranath Tagore. This book considers Debi to be of merit as a writer who extensively wrote for five decades and helped to redefine feminine sensibilities in her subjective ways. Through assessing Debi’s work and life, this book offers a brief history of women’s writing and the anxiety of authorship of women writers. Swarnakumari Debi: Bengali Female Writer will benefit the researchers in Literature, Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, and Culture Studies, as well as general readers interested in the life and work of Debi.

Brass Chamber Music in Lyceum and Chautauqua

This study of brass chamber music in lyceum and chautauqua fills a lacuna in brass history. It explores the forgotten phenomenon of the many chamber brass ensembles that entertained millions of Americans from coast to coast from 1877 to 1939 and presents histories of sixty-one ensembles that performed music for brass trio, brass quartet, brass quintet, and brass sextet for lyceum and chautauqua audiences. The author also writes about the large repertoire of music for small brass ensembles that he discovered was published in America from 1875 through the 1920s. This First American Chamber Brass School is discussed in one of five overviews of the principal eras in brass chamber music history that form the most comprehensive history of brass chamber music written in fifty years. Paperback.