Music at the Crossroads: Lives and Legacies of Baltimore Jazz is the first book dedicated exclusively to Baltimore’s jazz history. It includes chapters on major names such as Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, and Chick Webb, as well as neglected figures such as pianist Ellis Larkins and Towson jazz educator and composer Hank Levy. The book collects essays written by Loyola...
Learn MoreClowns and magistrates, nuns and prostitutes, saints and sinners—all take the stage in Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s provocative meditation on justice, law, and mercy. This modernized text, newly edited from the First Folio (1623), provides a complete record of textual notes and ample commentary. Concise and helpful appendices discuss language and rhetoric,...
Learn MoreThe play translated in this volume confronts problems and questions similar to our own, but from a gap of over four centuries. Should students fight? Which ones? Why? Why not? What role should teachers play in students’ decision to enlist? What about the desires and claims of family and loved ones? What are the claims of the state on its youth? How ready are young...
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