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🎶 NEW: Jan DeGaetani, Mezzo-Soprano by Ann Marie Wilcox-Daehn is an exploration of the life and career of the American singer, highlighting her groundbreaking performances, her influence on contemporary composers, and her innovative teaching philosophies. Buy the book 👉 buff.ly/wu11PLx #BookSky

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Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620 available to read for free as open access 👉 buff.ly/G0ceew0 #OpenAccess #OAWeek

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🎻 🎹 NEW: Mozart’s Sonatas for Piano and Violin is a detailed and clearly written presentation of #Mozart’s 16 piano & violin sonatas, forming a guide to their history, analysis, and performance, intended both for musicians & music lovers. Read more on the book ➡️ buff.ly/4k2xdPP #BookSky

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"An impressive and useful work" - Music & Letters. This first in-depth biography looks at Janequin’s revolutionary approach to entertainment music and his pioneer status in the developing music-printing industry. Learn more about the book 👉 buff.ly/scys2ui

🎉 NEW: Resilience and the #Humanities explores the concept of ‘resilience’ by proposing that it is a contested idea, susceptible to criticism, and not a predetermined notion whose consequences are fixed. Produced in collaboration with the @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center. buff.ly/IMdzdmJ

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Celebrated each year #PeerReviewWeek shines a light on the crucial process of peer review and the vital work peer reviewers do within scholarly publishing. In this blog we get insights into the process with author & reviewer, Chris Walton. buff.ly/R4XthC0 #ScholarlyPublishing #PRW2026 #BookSky

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Available to pre-order: Harmony and Rhythm of the Universe is interdisciplinary journey through history, science, and art – exploring how harmony and rhythm have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and ourselves. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/SmaQ8Uu #BookSky #Skystorians

Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper by @slobogin.bsky.social shows the key role that drawings and photographs had in shaping the material, professional, emotional and aesthetic parameters of plastic surgery. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/rduJch4 #openaccess #medicalhistory

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History belongs in public life. This September 25–27, join us for We Want More History!, a nationwide weekend of history programming celebrating the many ways people connect with the past. Visit https://ow.ly/F8Fs50ZzQqS to learn more, explore the event map, or get involved. #WeWantMoreHistory

What makes a witchcraft accusation against a child feel “true” enough for adults to act on it? Claire P. Ayelotan explores how this question led to the research for her book, Yoruba Pentecostalism and Child Witchcraft Accusations. Read the blog: buff.ly/RcfjyNI #BookSky

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NEW: The #Mozart Week of the German Reich by Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis & Cécile Quesney is a piercing investigation showing how a glittering Mozart music festival in 1941 Vienna became a powerful instrument of Nazi propaganda in both annexed Austria and occupied France. Learn more > buff.ly/5sHcjE3

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NEW! Daniel Roth, Organist of Saint-Sulpice by Pierre-François Dub-Attenti, Christophe Zerbini and translated by George Baker is a biography of the world-renowned French organist, composer, and teacher, told in his own words through lively, wide-ranging interviews. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/QTMqKgE

🎶 European #Composers on the American Tour, 1900-1914 by Matthew Frerking Reese explores American concert life and cultural history around 1900 through the lens of four visiting European composers. Pre-order 👉 buff.ly/CrycUS5

What does it really mean to decolonize #AfricanStudies? In this thought-provoking post, Toyin Falola explores why African history cannot be understood through colonial archives alone. Read the blog ➡️ buff.ly/IK7hZpA #BookSky

Publishing this month, Decolonization and the Future of African Studies by Toyin Falola, argues that indigenous methods and knowledge are essential for studying Africa’s diverse peoples and histories. Pre-order ➡️ buff.ly/kYeuwk1 #BookSky #AfricanStudies #NewBook

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Great to see David Herzberg and Joseph M. Gabriel, 2 of the 3 editors of the new book, Dealing with Drugs at the AAHM conference! Learn more about the book in the latest episode of the Humanities in the World podcast 👉 buff.ly/XLYAyAm #HistMed @dhbuffalo.bsky.social @jmgabriel.bsky.social

Brahms Patriotic and Political by David Brodbeck offers a historical context in which to understand how #Brahms's three most intensely political and nationalistic works interact with questions of German patriotism, liberalism and nationalism. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/aTdFBsF

🩺 We're set up and ready to go at the American Association for the History of Medicine conference! View our books, pick up a catalogue, and speak to Christina Wipf Perry, Senior Acquisitions Editor for the University of Rochester Press, about publishing your work. #HistMed #AAHM #MedicalHistory

🎙️ In the new podcast episode, David Herzberg, Joseph M. Gabriel & Nils Kessel reflect on the shifting boundaries between medicines & drugs, challenging the idea that these categories are fixed or purely scientific. 🎧 buff.ly/XLYAyAm #BookSky @jmgabriel.bsky.social @nilskessel.bsky.social

NEW: Eighteenth-Century Opera and Ballet edited by Vanessa L. Rogers and Janet K Page offers 12 original essays that explore the rich interplay of opera, ballet, and culture in eighteenth-century Europe and beyond. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/Wo9Rwdb #BookSky

NEW: Museums, Monuments, and Memory in Poland by Anna Krakus demonstrates how museums, public monuments & private collections in Poland generate competing interpretations of the past-particularly the Holocaust. Offers universal insights into the power of curated memory. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/uDADh47

This first in-depth biography looks at Janequin’s revolutionary approach to entertainment music, his pioneer status in the developing #music-printing industry, and his contributions to sacred music in the turmoil that followed the Reformation. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/gTId3Sc

Coquettes, Wives, and Widows by Marcie Ray, is a revelatory study of how composers and dramatists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France criticized and trivialized independent women in their portrayals of them in works of #theater and #opera. Learn more: buff.ly/N5fcrXZ

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From Jeffrey Arlo Brown, The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey, shows how the artist’s sensuality and rigor came together to form the musical genre known as spectralism. Save 60% on the hardback until 5 May 2026. 👉 buff.ly/5gbGtwQ

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The Musical Identities of Harry Partch, edited by S. Andrew Granade, is an exploration of Partch’s visionary #music, instruments & identities, revealing how his singular sound-world challenges conventions, & continues to redefine the possibilities of musical expression. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/kiXPWcs

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Hungarian “Gypsy-Band” Music in Vienna, 1850-1914 offers a detailed investigation, based on extensive study of press reports and early recordings, of the popular Hungarian bands in Vienna who influenced Brahms and other composers. Learn more > buff.ly/twfuHYm

On the Run in Occupied Poland by Grażyna Gross and edited by Irene Kacandes is a child’s-eye account of fleeing Soviet-occupied Vilnius in 1940 bringing wartime and refugee experiences vividly to life. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/py1NfsX #UniversityPress #BookSky

We need historians because the past is never just the past. Every policy debate, public conversation, and cultural shift is shaped by what came before. Historians help us understand context, trace change over time, and recognize what’s at stake. #TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️

Beginning with a trip to London in 1980, Jon Ceander Mitchell reflects on his decades-long journey of research, travel, and inspiration shaped by the enduring #music of Gustav #Holst. Read the blog 👉 buff.ly/9hw7rK8 #UofRPress #UniversityPress

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