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  • The Music of the Future

    Sound and Vision in the Caribbean

    by Martin Munro ...
    Series series Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
    In this book, author Martin Munro offers a new path into Caribbean studies based on sound. He argues that to understand and begin to transform the past, present, and future of Caribbean studies, historians must do so at the node of both sound and vision. The book makes a compelling case for a broad realignment of Caribbean studies with particular emphasis on the sonic dimensions of Caribbean art, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Different Drummers

    Rhythm and Race in the Americas

    by Martin Munro ...
    Series Book 14 - Music of the African Diaspora
    Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro’s groundbreaking work traces the central—and contested—role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, Munro takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Tropical Apocalypse

    Haiti and the Caribbean End Times

    by Martin Munro ...
    Series series New World Studies
    In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro argues that since the earliest days of European colonization, Caribbean—and especially Haitian—history has been shaped by apocalyptic events so that the region has, in effect, been living for centuries in an end time without end. By engaging with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, he not only provides important historical ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Raoul Peck

    Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination

    by Martin Munro, Tama Hamilton-Wray, Myriam J. A. Chancy, Rachel Gabara, Olivier Barlet, John P. Walsh, Jane Bryce, Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, Joëlle Vitiello ...
    This comprehensive collection of essays dedicated to the work of filmmaker Raoul Peck is the first of its kind. The essays, interview, and keynote addresses collected in Raoul Peck: Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination focus on the ways in which power and politics traverse the work of Peck and are central to his cinematic vision. At the heart of this project is the wish to gather diverse ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Water Logics

    Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities

    by Matthew Brauer, Olivia Durand, Brian T. Edwards, Stefan Helmreich, Charles Heller, Nicole Horne, Isabelle Keller-Privat, Shanaaz Mohammed, Martin Munro, Supriya M. Nair, Aaron Pinnix, Nathalie Roelens, Marie Sandoz, Philip Steinberg, Bradley Stephens, Anne-Katrin Weber ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itselfWater Logics examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical readings of rivers, seas, and oceans, it brings together leading voices from across the social sciences and the humanities to argue rather for a distinct focus on materiality, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Story Of Electricity (Unabridged)

    by JOHN MUNRO ...
    Narrated by Michael Martin ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    In the book's preface, the author writes: "Let anyone stop to consider how he individually would be affected if all electrical service were suddenly to cease, and he cannot fail to appreciate the claims of electricity to attentive study."In these days when we take for granted all kinds of technology - communications, entertainment, medical, military, industrial and domestic - it is interesting to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, Circa 1695

    A Voyage to St Kilda

    by Martin Martin, Donald Monro ...
    One of the greatest travellers in Scotland, Martin Martin was also a native Gaelic speaker. This text offers his narrative of his journey around the Western Isles, and a mine of information on custom, tradition and life. Martin Martin's wrote before the Jacobite rebellions changed the way of life of the Highlander irrevocably. The volume includes the earliest account of St Kilda, first published ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Sinbad and the Pirate Princess

    by Mark Redfield ...
    Narrated by Mark Redfield, Caroline Munro, Martine Beswicke ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 16 min

    A ferocious pirate roams the Arabian Sea and Sinbad must stop her! Caroline Munro is Junah, the pirate princess, out to destroy the island kingdom ruled by the wicked Queen Badra, voiced by Martine Beswicke. Sinbad (Mark Redfield) finds himself caught between the two, and tangles with a vengeful genii, seductive sirens, and a deadly sea serpent in this grande swashbuckling fantasy adventure for ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Over Seas of Memory

    A Novel

    by Michaël Ferrier ...
    Translated by Martin Munro ...
    Based loosely on the author’s life, this novel recounts the narrator’s journey following the footsteps of his Mauritius-born grandfather, Maxime, who abruptly boarded a boat bound for Madagascar in 1922 and never returned. Michaël Ferrier tells a tale of discovery as well as the elusive, colorful story of Maxime’s life in Madagascar, which included a stint as an acrobat in a traveling circus and, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Global Revolutionary Aesthetics and Politics after Paris ‘68

    by Chris Bennett, Timo Obergöker, Tenley Bick, Paul Cohen, Giuseppina Mecchia, Chris Reynolds, Valerie Orlando, Alexis Chauchois, Gilles Glacet, Augustus O’Neill ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    The year 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of May ’68, a startling, by now almost mythic event which combined seriousness, courage, humor and theatrics. The contributions of this volume—based on papers presented the conference Does “la lutte continue”? The Global Afterlife of May ’68 at Florida State University in March 2019—explore the ramifications of that springtime protest in the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Haunted Tropics

    Caribbean Ghost Stories

    Edited by Martin Munro ...
    The book is a collection of new and unpublished ghost stories written by some of the most celebrated contemporary writers of the Caribbean. It is the first collection of its kind, and drawing on the anglophone, francophone and hispanophone islands, the volume will be a landmark publication in Caribbean writing. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Edwidge Danticat

    A Reader's Guide

    Edited by Martin Munro ...
    Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), the novel born from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood in Haiti and immigration to New York City, was one of the great literary debuts of recent times, marking the emergence of an impressive talent in addition to opening up an entire culture to a broad general readership. This gifted author went on to win the American Book Award in 1999 for her novel, The Farming of Bones ... Read more

    $30.59 USD