Southwestern Magazine | Spring 2021

1 6 | SOUTHWE S T E RN ON THE SHELVES Road Scars: Place, Automobility, and Road Trauma Associate Professor of Communication Studies Robert Matej Bednar ’89 Rowman & Littlefield Road Scars is a highly visual monograph that demonstrates how roadside car crash shrines give embodied form to a dispersed and unresolved cultural trauma embedded within American car culture. It is based on nearly two decades of mobile fieldwork in the American Southwest and features 172 original color photographs. Taking us on a tour of American car culture, music history, British imperialism, and the art of ancient China, these are just some of the books published by Southwestern faculty in 2020. Various Professor of Music Michael Cooper G. Schirmer, Bärenreiter, Hildegard Cooper published an unprecedented 49 editions of musical compositions in 2020, including 44 world-premiere source- critical editions of works by African-American composer Florence B. Price (1887–1953) with G. Schirmer; new source- critical editions of the orchestral and piano–vocal versions of Felix Mendelssohn’s symphony-cantata Hymn of Praise with Bärenreiter; and three major masterpieces by African-American composer Margaret A. Bonds (1913–1972) with Hildegard: her Montgomery Variations (1964), her setting of the W. E. B. Du Bois civil-rights manifesto “Credo” (1966–1967), and her Six Songs on Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Tudor Empire: The Making of Early Modern Britain and the British Atlantic World, 1485–1603 Associate Professor of History Jessica S. Hower Palgrave Macmillan The book recasts one of the most well-studied and popularly beloved eras in history—the tumultuous span from the accession of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I—by focusing on another equally provocative facet of the British past: imperialism. Hower argues that expansion abroad and national consolidation and identity formation at home were concurrent, intertwined, and mutually reinforcing.