Performing Arts - General

This study provides an overview of philosophical questions relating to sight and vision. It discusses the intertwinement of seeing and ways of seeing against the background of an entirely different theoretical framework.Seeing is both a proven means of acquiring information and a personality-specific way...

This collection promises to be a cornerstone in the field of performance studies and human rights activism. By mixing scholarly chapters with artists' manifestos or "interruptions" it promotes the idea of the collective work between academia and social movements. Not only is it very...

This book and its accompanying website present the selected proceedings of the inaugural, 'The Performer's Voice: An International Forum for Music Performance and Scholarship', directed by Dr Anne Marshman (editor) and hosted by the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore....

Upon the 25th anniversary of his passing, this collection addresses the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early 21st century. From anthropology, sociology, and religious studies to performance, cultural, and media studies, Turner's ideas have had a prodigious interdisciplinary...

Both an exploration of the ways in which we fashion our public identity and a manual of modern sociability, this lively and readable book explores the techniques we use to present ourselves to the world: body language, tone of voice, manners, demeanour, 'personality' and...

This collection provides a critical overview of research on the assessment of visual skills in students from six to eighteen years old. In a series of studies, contributors reconsider evaluation practices used in art education and examine current ideas about children's development of visual...

Amid the splendours and pretensions of the royal court, the Earl of Rochester impresses Charles II with his irreverence and plain speech. So much so, that the monarch gives him the task of creating a 'ministry of pleasure', thus liberating him to tour the...

What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? Disability Arts and Culture: Methods and Approaches seeks the answer to this question and more in an exploration of disability studies within the arts and beyond.Author: Petra KuppersISBN-10:...

The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior. Galvanizing Performances applies the teachings of this practice to the performing arts. Through theatre, music, and dance, the contributors, all artists themselves,...

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of...

Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union's most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on "performance" broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter's settlement in Transylvania as...

In the first book-length study of Tarot cards on the silver screen, Emily E. Auger contextualizes cartomancy - the practice of fortune telling via playing cards - and dives deep into its invention and promulgation in film. After providing an introduction to divination and...

The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1589 and 1593. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, and is often seen as showing his first tentative steps in laying out some...

TOUCH AND GO A Play in Three Acts By D. H. Lawrence The movement of the play is a working up to a confrontation, with the threat of violence, between Gerald Barlow, the mine owner and his striking men. Each side thinks it wants...

100 limerick's in English please note that limerick's will not work in another language translate from englishAuthor: Robert Anthony HalpinISBN-10: 1502797925ISBN-13: 9781502797926Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2014Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.05d

Open this book at random to find poems you can understand and feel, or look at the table of contents for categories. Write to me: evymae@hughes.net if you'd like. Author: Evelyn ColeISBN-10: 1456727672ISBN-13: 9781456727673Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/07/2011Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Hesketh PearsonISBN-10: 1447442792ISBN-13: 9781447442790Publisher: Tufts...

A step-by-step detailed training manual for actors that guides you through the process of finding and bringing to life the "perfect" monologue, a monologue that works for you. Includes over 50 original monologues for men and women with tips on approach and delivery. Quotes...

Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power: Trailer Park Royalty explores the phenomenon of child beauty pageants in rural communities throughout the American South. In a bricolage of post-structural feminism, critical ethnographies, critical hermeneutics, and cultural studies lenses, this book analyzes how the performance of participants--most...

A thorough survey of the origins and development of the major distinct American commercial entertainments that emerged between over the course of the 19th century and into the 20th, including P.T. Barnum_s American Museum, freak show, and circus, as well as blackface minstrelry, Buffalo...

This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. Youth from seven urban locales in Australia, the UK, the US and Europe document and reflect on their...

The Twentieth Century Theatre: Observations On The Contemporary English And American Stage is a book written by William Lyon Phelps, first published in 1918. This book is an analysis of the theatre scene in England and America during the early 20th century. Phelps provides...

As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals' engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political transformation in diverse regions of the world to...

Responding to the widespread and continued acceleration of virtual working practices in recent years, Virtual Presenting provides a clear guide to producing, presenting and broadcasting in a remote context. Author: Jamie Cohen,Michael SorrentinoISBN-10: 103227185XISBN-13: 9781032271859Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2023Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w...

This edition of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine includes a wide range of articles, essays, and stories on topics ranging from politics to literature to science. Notable contributions include a report on the opium trade, a review of William Wordsworth's poetry, and a short story by...

This book is a collection of classic English plays written between the 16th and 18th centuries. It includes works by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and many other famous playwrights of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.This work has been selected by scholars as...

This collection of plays by Olive Tilford Dargan includes four works: 'Semiramis', 'The Mortal Gods', 'High Noon', and 'The Shepherdess'. These plays showcase Dargan's skill in crafting complex characters and exploring themes such as love, power, and mortality.This work has been selected by scholars...

In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers-Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley-to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin. She situates each figure within...

During the years 1880 to 1940, the glory days of the American circus, a third to a half of the cast members were women--a large group of very visible American workers whose story needs telling. This book, using sources such as diaries, autobiographies, newspaper...

Though comic women have existed since the days of Baubo, the mythic figure of sexual humor, they have been neglected by scholars and critics. This pioneering volume tells the stories of five women who have created revolutionary forms of comic performance and discourse that...

Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese culture and values. In the twentieth century, however, Chinese operas went through significant changes. During the first four decades of the 1900s,...

Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as nothing but propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Continuous Revolution sets out to explain its legacy. By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda art--music, stage works, prints and posters, comics, and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

In a time of intensifying xenophobia and anti-immigration measures, this book examines the impulse to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural others. Immersions in Cultural Difference takes readers into the heart of immersive simulations, including a simulated terrorist training camp in Utah; mock Afghan...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms.The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction and conflict, but it is also a region with a rich culture, environment,...

FOUR YOUNG MEN FROM THE HOOD PUT TOGETHER A PLAN TO GET MORE MONEY THAN THE HOOD CAN OFFER... LINKING UP WITH SLICK, SCRAP AND A FEW OTHER HOMIES ALONG THE WAY CAUSES THEM TO GET INTO SITUATIONS THAT FORCE THE UNIT ON THE...

"For some years now, a group of American composers and theorists including Babbitt, Teitelbaum, Martino, and Lewin, have been elaborating mathematically based procedures for the analysis of pitch structures in atonal music. In this book, Allen Forte expands the results of their work into...

Haydn's music has been performed continuously for more than two hundred years. But what do we play, and what do we listen to, when it comes to Haydn? Can we still appreciate the rich rhetorical nuances of this music, which from its earliest days...

Mozart: Maestro of Tonality is meant for a music lover, whether novice or aficionado. It is a study of his masterful tonality - "the core of music"-by discussing compositionally dynamic movements of harmony, agile key modulations, and artful character vocalizations. It illustrates Mozart's deft...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions...

Celebrating a cherished friendshipRetired journalist Chuck Schmidt has been covering the ins and outs of the Walt Disney Company for more than four decades, first on the pages of the Staten Island Advance newspaper, then on the paper's website, SILive.com. Since 2014, he's shared...

A spoken word, vignette-structured play about existing softly in a damaged world. NOTE: This piece of writing is purposefully meant to be multidimensional. The first version is straight stanza style-like poetry, and the second version is how it was written to be staged live....

Papa Bois: King of Paradise is a play about a contemporary Caribbean society, battling against the detrimental effects of globalisation, its fruits of prosperity from returning Caribbean Diaspora migrants, and the consequences for their Caribbean-heritage children. Based on the Caribbean folktale, Papa Bois, this...

Magical Musings, A Voyage to Better Magic is a collection of essays and effects by Magic Circle Magician Ian Brennan. In this book you will find advice on character development, scripting, presentation, performance style and much more. Ian's work has received great reviews in...

This book investigates the relationship between performance, technological mediation, and the sense of live presence through a series of case studies related to popular music products. Bratus explores the crucial significance of live performance for the construction of a personal, intimate relationship between performers...

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedians Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, country singer Glen Campbell, playwright Sam Shepard and actor-singer Jim Nabors. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and...

In this study of the development of the worship of Shakespeare by the literary critics of the late eighteenth century, the author destroys the misconception that Shakespeare was rediscovered by the romantic critics of the early nineteenth century and proves that, after the idolatry...

Even as it skirts mainstream contemporary culture, pornography remains a social taboo; there still exist strong biases both in favor and against it. With chapters addressing imagination, gender, power relationships, truth claims, aesthetics, and both pro and anti-porn slants, this book presents a balanced...

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that...