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Columbia University Press Film Dialogue
Book SynopsisFilm Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological dimensions of film speech.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface, by Sarah Kozloff Introduction: A Brief Primer for Film Dialogue Study, by Jeff Jaeckle Dialogue and Genre 1. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: Dialogue in Science Fiction Films, by Vivian Sobchack 2. Documenting Dialogue: Reshaping 'Reality' in Emile de Antonio's Point of Order, by Deborah A. Carmichael 3. Pronoun Troubles and Factual Conversations: Dialogue in Animated Films, by Paul Wells 4. Talking Teams: Dialogue and the Team Film Formula, by Jeremy Strong 5. You Talk Like a Character in a Book: Dialogue and Film Adaptation, by Thomas Leitch Dialogue Auteurs 6. Killing the Writer: Movie Dialogue Conventions and John Cassavetes, by Todd Berliner 7. The Film Dialogue of Howard Hawks, by Brian Wilson 8. Orson Welles' Trademark: Overlapping Film Dialogue, by Francois Thomas 9. On Misspeaking in the Films of Preston Sturges, by Jeff Jaeckle Dialogue and Cultural Representation 10. 'They Will Speak in Our Language': Indian Speech in Western Movies, by Edward Buscombe 11. From 'Me So Horny' to 'I'm So Ronery': Asian Images and Yellow Voices in American Cinema, by Hye Seung Chung 12. The Politics Speak: Performing Race From Sweetback to Foxy Brown, by Stephane Dunn 13. Male Sounds and Speech Affectations: Voicing Masculinity, by Donna Peberdy Index
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Columbia University Press Film Dialogue
Book SynopsisFilm Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological dimensions of film speech.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface, by Sarah Kozloff Introduction: A Brief Primer for Film Dialogue Study, by Jeff Jaeckle Dialogue and Genre 1. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: Dialogue in Science Fiction Films, by Vivian Sobchack 2. Documenting Dialogue: Reshaping 'Reality' in Emile de Antonio's Point of Order, by Deborah A. Carmichael 3. Pronoun Troubles and Factual Conversations: Dialogue in Animated Films, by Paul Wells 4. Talking Teams: Dialogue and the Team Film Formula, by Jeremy Strong 5. You Talk Like a Character in a Book: Dialogue and Film Adaptation, by Thomas Leitch Dialogue Auteurs 6. Killing the Writer: Movie Dialogue Conventions and John Cassavetes, by Todd Berliner 7. The Film Dialogue of Howard Hawks, by Brian Wilson 8. Orson Welles' Trademark: Overlapping Film Dialogue, by Francois Thomas 9. On Misspeaking in the Films of Preston Sturges, by Jeff Jaeckle Dialogue and Cultural Representation 10. 'They Will Speak in Our Language': Indian Speech in Western Movies, by Edward Buscombe 11. From 'Me So Horny' to 'I'm So Ronery': Asian Images and Yellow Voices in American Cinema, by Hye Seung Chung 12. The Politics Speak: Performing Race From Sweetback to Foxy Brown, by Stephane Dunn 13. Male Sounds and Speech Affectations: Voicing Masculinity, by Donna Peberdy Index
£23.80
Columbia University Press The Pop Musical Sweat Tears and Tarnished Utopias
Book SynopsisAlberto Mira offers a new account of how pop music revolutionized the Hollywood musical. He shows that while the Hollywood system ceased producing large-scale traditional musicals, different pop strains—disco, rock ’n’ roll, doo-wop, glam, and hip-hop—renewed the genre, giving it a new life.Trade ReviewAlberto Mira’s timely volume superbly fills a gap in writing on the musical, focusing with originality, flair and thorough scholarship on a significant variant of the genre. He demonstrates how the Pop musical has taken the genre into new directions, for instance making it even more socially aware, revising its folk discourse, and exploring questions of sexual identity. In his analysis of the star qualities of Ann-Margret, the changing impact of Elvis Presley, re-appraisal of films like Bye Bye Birdie and The Rocky Horror Picture Show or, more generally, the way Pop musicals draw on and diversify the traditions of the classical musical, Mira ensures that this exciting volume will be essential reading for devotees as well as for scholars of the film musical, and the aesthetics, cultural and socio-political contexts of popular cinema. -- Peter William Evans, Queen Mary University of LondonWhile much has been written on the change in the musical's cinematic language in the postclassical period, the “pop musical” itself has not been sufficiently identified, theorized, or historicized. In The Pop Musical, Alberto Mira addresses this gap, insisting that the genre’s unique relationship with pop music plays a determining role in how these films make meaning. -- Desirée Garcia, author of The Movie MusicalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Hollywood Musical Is Dead. Long Live the Hollywood Musical!1. Hollywood and the Rise of Pop Music: The Age of Elvis2. Embracing Pop: Integrating the Pop Musical3. Looking Back: The Pop Musical and the PastConclusion: Qualified JoysNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Kill the Documentary
Book SynopsisIn Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. In place of the conventional documentary, she advocates for a “postrealist” cinema.Trade ReviewKill the Documentary is a brilliant, angry book. An honest book. A brave book. Guggenheim Fellow and award-winning filmmaker Jill Godmilow has written a stirring call to arms. -- Cynthia Close * Documentary Magazine *Creatively curious pages -- Ezra Winton * Cineaste *Jill Godmilow marshals a pantheon of hard-hitting, tough-minded films that refuse to be herded into the realist corral. Godmilow’s letter, or manifesto, like most manifestos, draws a line in the sand. Which side are you on becomes the question. Stay put and miss the point, or step on through to the other side and restore for yourself some of the nuance and subtlety that is foreign to the spirit of a manifesto. -- Bill Nichols, from the ForewordThis provocative and engaging book by acclaimed filmmaker Jill Godmilow raises important questions for anyone concerned about the future of political documentary. She maps out an original approach to “postrealist” documentary that champions moral engagement, social activism, aesthetic daring, historical grounding, and intersectional participation for bold twenty-first-century filmmaking. -- Deirdre Boyle, author of Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy PanhIn her captivating and original Kill the Documentary, filmmaker and critic Jill Godmilow offers a plea—in the form of a letter, which is a manifesto, and forty propositions, and a tool kit—for making postrealist nonfiction, for making film useful and fruitful. In her scathing critique of “great” documentaries, and her offering up of her own counter-canon, she insists that filmmakers and viewers can begin again by refusing the pedigree, pornography, and cultural imperialism of the real, and by supporting postrealist strategies: interventionist and interactive, performative and formal. Honestly, I don’t agree with all she says, or every one of the 144 films she honors, and that’s her urgent book’s point and purpose: I can and should make my own. -- Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNYKill the Documentary is a provocative manifesto for rethinking the documentary. Godmilow provides a shield against the tear-soaked sentimentality and nostalgia of the Ken Burns style of packaging history. A new tool in the film teacher's kit, this book is useful beyond discussions of documentary. The passion of her prose is infectious—a welcome relief for student reading assignments. -- DeeDee Halleck, professor emerita, University of California, San DiegoThis book will be a gold mine for any instructors putting together an “Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking” syllabus or for cinematic autodidacts hungry to experiment with alternative modes of nonfictional filmmaking. -- Jaimie Baron * Film Quarterly *Herein lies the specificity and refreshing nonconformity of [this] book: it pushes the reader not only to see through the ideological premises of conventional formats, but also to delve into the multiple configurations that generate subversive experiences . . . [Godmilow's] persistent faith in the importance of developing critical awareness and in the agency of art to intervene into reality despite the omnipresent ‘capitalist realism’ in the global neoliberal society radiates a compelling force. -- Stefanie Baumann * Radical Philosophy *Table of ContentsManifestly Radical: A Foreword, by Bill NicholsAcknowledgmentsI Call This Book a LetterIntroduction—a Letter to Filmmakers1. Abandon the Conventional Documentary—Reject Realism as the Only Authentic Nonfiction Form2. Take Action—Make Useful Postrealist Films3. Forty Postrealist Strategies to Learn from and Borrow4. The ToolkitNotes BibliographyIndex
£80.00
Columbia University Press Kill the Documentary A Letter to Filmmakers
Book SynopsisIn Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. In place of the conventional documentary, she advocates for a postrealist cinema.Trade ReviewKill the Documentary is a brilliant, angry book. An honest book. A brave book. Guggenheim Fellow and award-winning filmmaker Jill Godmilow has written a stirring call to arms. -- Cynthia Close * Documentary Magazine *Creatively curious pages -- Ezra Winton * Cineaste *Jill Godmilow marshals a pantheon of hard-hitting, tough-minded films that refuse to be herded into the realist corral. Godmilow’s letter, or manifesto, like most manifestos, draws a line in the sand. Which side are you on becomes the question. Stay put and miss the point, or step on through to the other side and restore for yourself some of the nuance and subtlety that is foreign to the spirit of a manifesto. -- Bill Nichols, from the ForewordThis provocative and engaging book by acclaimed filmmaker Jill Godmilow raises important questions for anyone concerned about the future of political documentary. She maps out an original approach to “postrealist” documentary that champions moral engagement, social activism, aesthetic daring, historical grounding, and intersectional participation for bold twenty-first-century filmmaking. -- Deirdre Boyle, author of Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy PanhIn her captivating and original Kill the Documentary, filmmaker and critic Jill Godmilow offers a plea—in the form of a letter, which is a manifesto, and forty propositions, and a tool kit—for making postrealist nonfiction, for making film useful and fruitful. In her scathing critique of “great” documentaries, and her offering up of her own counter-canon, she insists that filmmakers and viewers can begin again by refusing the pedigree, pornography, and cultural imperialism of the real, and by supporting postrealist strategies: interventionist and interactive, performative and formal. Honestly, I don’t agree with all she says, or every one of the 144 films she honors, and that’s her urgent book’s point and purpose: I can and should make my own. -- Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNYKill the Documentary is a provocative manifesto for rethinking the documentary. Godmilow provides a shield against the tear-soaked sentimentality and nostalgia of the Ken Burns style of packaging history. A new tool in the film teacher's kit, this book is useful beyond discussions of documentary. The passion of her prose is infectious—a welcome relief for student reading assignments. -- DeeDee Halleck, professor emerita, University of California, San DiegoThis book will be a gold mine for any instructors putting together an “Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking” syllabus or for cinematic autodidacts hungry to experiment with alternative modes of nonfictional filmmaking. -- Jaimie Baron * Film Quarterly *Herein lies the specificity and refreshing nonconformity of [this] book: it pushes the reader not only to see through the ideological premises of conventional formats, but also to delve into the multiple configurations that generate subversive experiences . . . [Godmilow's] persistent faith in the importance of developing critical awareness and in the agency of art to intervene into reality despite the omnipresent ‘capitalist realism’ in the global neoliberal society radiates a compelling force. -- Stefanie Baumann * Radical Philosophy *Table of ContentsManifestly Radical: A Foreword, by Bill NicholsAcknowledgmentsI Call This Book a LetterIntroduction—a Letter to Filmmakers1. Abandon the Conventional Documentary—Reject Realism as the Only Authentic Nonfiction Form2. Take Action—Make Useful Postrealist Films3. Forty Postrealist Strategies to Learn from and Borrow4. The ToolkitNotes BibliographyIndex
£21.25
Columbia University Press Radio for the Millions
Book SynopsisRadio for the Millions examines Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp.Trade ReviewRadio for the Millions is a fantastic work of radio history and South Asian historiography. It is meticulously researched, making use of an extensive range of archival collections across India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as oral-historical interviews with radio broadcasters. Focusing on radio as a medium and following radio waves across the national borders of South Asia, this book is an excellent contribution to the project of decolonizing sound studies and the project of denationalizing South Asian history. -- Amanda Weidman, author of Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South IndiaThis pathbreaking study shows how an attentiveness to the political and cultural potency of radio sounds reframes our understandings of histories in South Asia. Huacuja Alonso illuminates the relationship between aurality and orality, inviting us to lend an ear to voices and sounds on the radio waves that transcend and complicate borders, states, identities, and cultures in South Asia. -- Kama Maclean, University of HeidelbergThis ambitious and wide-ranging book takes seriously radio as a medium and music as a central form of sensorial engagement that defied borders and communal affiliations. Spanning India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka from the colonial to the postcolonial periods, it explains how a subcontinental popular culture endured in spite of multiple partitions. -- Durba Ghosh, Cornell UniversityRadio for the Millions challenges neat historiographies often developed from and/or by state archives. Huacuja Alonso reminds us that the “oral” and “aural” are indeed messy and complicated yet necessary registers for understanding national, political turmoils. Hindi-Urdu broadcast radio has long been a site of both (state) nation-building and (community) place-making by listeners. Radio for the Millions is an exemplary study of why listening is such an integral component of history. -- Dolores Inés Casillas, author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public AdvocacyIsabel Alonso provides a captivating history of radio that sits at the intersection of sound studies, cultural history, and the politics of nationalism in modern South Asia. In this virtuosic tale, we read about the policymakers, artists, singers, political figures, and poets who inhabited a broader transnational space in South Asia. . . This book will benefit an expansive community of readers, including academic communities in the disciplines of history and ethnomusicology and specifically readers interested in the cultural history of sound and music -- Pouya Nekouei * Not Even Past *Skillfully and imaginatively highlights the place of [radio] in the broader historiographies of nation-building, language, and the public sphere. -- Faiz Ullah * The Book Review (India) *An original and truly fascinating work. * H-Soz-Kult *A fascinating story of the history of radio in South Asia. -- Mehru Jaffer * The Citizen *The book makes an important contribution, especially in unearthing and resurrecting liminal voices, which make up what I would call a kind of archaeology of Southasian media. * Himal Southasian *Table of ContentsList of FiguresNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Tuning In to a Radio HistoryPart I: Radio News And World War II1. News on the AIR2. Netaji’s “Quisling Radio”Part II: Music And Postindependence Radio3. The “Sound Standards” of a New India4. Radio Ceylon, King of the AirwavesPart III: Dramatic Radio and the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War5. Radio Pakistan’s Seventeen Days of Drama6. The AIR Urdu Service’s Letters of LongingConclusion: Call to Me. Where Are You?AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Radio for the Millions
Book SynopsisRadio for the Millions examines Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp.Trade ReviewRadio for the Millions is a fantastic work of radio history and South Asian historiography. It is meticulously researched, making use of an extensive range of archival collections across India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as oral-historical interviews with radio broadcasters. Focusing on radio as a medium and following radio waves across the national borders of South Asia, this book is an excellent contribution to the project of decolonizing sound studies and the project of denationalizing South Asian history. -- Amanda Weidman, author of Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South IndiaThis pathbreaking study shows how an attentiveness to the political and cultural potency of radio sounds reframes our understandings of histories in South Asia. Huacuja Alonso illuminates the relationship between aurality and orality, inviting us to lend an ear to voices and sounds on the radio waves that transcend and complicate borders, states, identities, and cultures in South Asia. -- Kama Maclean, University of HeidelbergThis ambitious and wide-ranging book takes seriously radio as a medium and music as a central form of sensorial engagement that defied borders and communal affiliations. Spanning India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka from the colonial to the postcolonial periods, it explains how a subcontinental popular culture endured in spite of multiple partitions. -- Durba Ghosh, Cornell UniversityRadio for the Millions challenges neat historiographies often developed from and/or by state archives. Huacuja Alonso reminds us that the “oral” and “aural” are indeed messy and complicated yet necessary registers for understanding national, political turmoils. Hindi-Urdu broadcast radio has long been a site of both (state) nation-building and (community) place-making by listeners. Radio for the Millions is an exemplary study of why listening is such an integral component of history. -- Dolores Inés Casillas, author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public AdvocacyIsabel Alonso provides a captivating history of radio that sits at the intersection of sound studies, cultural history, and the politics of nationalism in modern South Asia. In this virtuosic tale, we read about the policymakers, artists, singers, political figures, and poets who inhabited a broader transnational space in South Asia. . . This book will benefit an expansive community of readers, including academic communities in the disciplines of history and ethnomusicology and specifically readers interested in the cultural history of sound and music -- Pouya Nekouei * Not Even Past *Skillfully and imaginatively highlights the place of [radio] in the broader historiographies of nation-building, language, and the public sphere. -- Faiz Ullah * The Book Review (India) *An original and truly fascinating work. * H-Soz-Kult *A fascinating story of the history of radio in South Asia. -- Mehru Jaffer * The Citizen *The book makes an important contribution, especially in unearthing and resurrecting liminal voices, which make up what I would call a kind of archaeology of Southasian media. * Himal Southasian *Table of ContentsList of FiguresNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Tuning In to a Radio HistoryPart I: Radio News And World War II1. News on the AIR2. Netaji’s “Quisling Radio”Part II: Music And Postindependence Radio3. The “Sound Standards” of a New India4. Radio Ceylon, King of the AirwavesPart III: Dramatic Radio and the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War5. Radio Pakistan’s Seventeen Days of Drama6. The AIR Urdu Service’s Letters of LongingConclusion: Call to Me. Where Are You?AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£30.00
Penguin Books Ltd Lifes What You Make It The Sunday Times
Book SynopsisTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDiscover the funny, uplifting, occasionally heartbreaking and always honest life story of Phillip Schofield'[A] fantastic read on such an interesting life' Lorraine Kelly'A really smashing book' Michael BallFor forty years we've watched Phillip on our tellies, from children's TV to This Morning and Dancing on Ice, but what is it like on set and who is he when the camera's off? In Life's What You Make It Philip for the first time takes us behind the scenes of his remarkable career. From his idyllic childhood in Cornwall, where for years he pestered the BBC for a job, eventually landing a prize position in the Broom Cupboard with mischievous sidekick Gordon the Gopher, through hosting Going Live!, starring in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and finally finding his on-screen home and presenting-partner Holly Willoughby on This Morning, Phillip takes us on the highs and lows of his extraordinary life. ____'For a long time, I felt that I couldn't wri
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Lulu.com LIdentit Fascista progetto politico e dottrina
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Lulu.com Feather Mysteries
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Lulu.com Elementi di Economia e di Diritto Corporativo
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University of Illinois Press Ballroom Boogie Shimmy Sham Shake
Book SynopsisExamining social and popular dance forms from a variety of critical and cultural perspectivesTrade Review"Contributors to this important new collection offer scholarship that helps us to hear, feel, and imagine that transformation through the ongoing story of American social and popular dance practices."--Dance Research Journal“Malnig makes a significant contribution to the field of dance studies with this impressive, long-overdue investigation into the rich world of vernacular dance traditions. . . . Highly recommended.”--Choice"This extraordinary collection of essays brings to the forefront the transformative power of social and popular dance as well as its profound impact in shaping American culture and history over the past two centuries."--Dance Chronicle"This well-researched and balanced classroom tool looks inside genres like ragtime, dance marathons and krumping, and its iconic photographs will help readers further understand each style."--Dance Teacher“An incredibly needed volume for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and advisors in the field of dance. These essays afford compelling glimpses into communities dancing in particular places and times; the authors provide nuanced understandings of dancing as a means of forming identity and community.”--Ann Dils, coeditor of Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader“This invaluable volume covers an impressive range of genres, illuminating the liveliness and diversity of social dance. The book makes a unique contribution at a time when the field of dance studies is expanding to include forms other than Euro-American concert dance. An excellent book and a godsend for classroom use.”--Tricia Henry Young, director of the graduate program in American dance studies, Florida State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction / Julie Malnig 1SECTION 1 / HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS 1. Our National Poetry / The Afro-Chesapeake Inventions of American Dance 19 Jurretta Jordan Heckscher 2. The Civilizing of America's Ballrooms / The Revolutionary War to 1890 36 Elizabeth Aldrich 3. "Just Like Being at the Zoo" / Primitivity and Ragtime Dance 55 Nadine George-Graves 4. Apaches, Tangos, and Other Indecencies / Women, Dance, and New York Nightlife of the 1910s 72 Julie MalnigSECTION 2 / EVOLVING STYLES 5. Reality Dance / American Dance Marathons 93 Carol Martin 6. The Trianon and On / Reading Mass Social Dancing in the 1930s and 1940s in Alberta, Canada 109 Lisa Doolittle 7. Negotiating Compromise on a Burnished Wood Floor / Social Dancing at the Savoy 126 Karen Hubbard and Terry Monaghan 8. Rumba Then and Now / Quindembo 146 Yvonne Daniel 9. Embodying Music/Disciplining Dance / The mambo Body in Havana and New York City 165 David F. Garcia 10. Rocking Around the Clock / Teenage Dance Fads from 1955 to 1965 182 Tim Wall 11. Beyond the Hustle / 1970s Social Dancing, Discotheque Culture, and the Emergence of the Contemporary Club Dancer 199 Tim LawrenceSECTION 3 / THEATRICALIZATIONS OF SOCIAL DANCE FORMS 12. "A Thousand Raggy, Draggy Dances" / Social Dance in Broadway Musical Comedy in the 1920s 217 Barbara Cohen-Stratyner 13. From Bharata Natyam to Bop / Jack Cole's "Modern" Jazz Dance 234 Constance Valis Hill 14. From Busby Berkeley to Madonna / Music Video and Popular Dance 247 Sherril Dodds 15. The Dance Archaeology of Rennie Harris / Hip-Hop or Postmodern? 261 Halifu OsumareSECTION 4 / THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE 16. "C'mon to My House" / Underground House Dancing 285 Sally R. Sommer 17. Dancing Latin/Latin Dancing / Salsa and Dancesport 302 Juliet McMains 18. Louisiana Gumbo / Retention, Creolization, and Innovation in Contemporary Cajun and Zydeco Dance 323 May Gwin Waggoner 19. The Multiringed Cosmos of Krumping / Hip-Hop Dance at the Intersections of Battle, Media, and Spirit 337 Christina Zanfagna Contributors 355 Index 361
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MO - University of Illinois Press Culture Makers Urban Performance and Literature
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging study of the cultural, social, and technological developments of the 1920s and their effect on the performing arts and literatureTrade Review"Cleverly investigates ways in which drama, dance, and literature either embraced or challenged the rhythm of the time. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"A lucid and insightful cross-genre study of the engagement between cultural producers and the transformations that took effect in American society in the decade often characterized as the Jazz Age."--American Studies“Amy Koritz's engaging book brings together drama, dance, and fiction of the 1920s in paired case studies of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture. Koritz provides an eloquent and refreshing collection of detailed, insightful case studies that illuminate the way in which artists, intellectuals, and cultural commentators used culture-making to pose ‘symbolic resolutions’ to key social and cultural tensions of modernity.”--David M. Scobey, author of Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York Landscape"Amy Koritz makes a compelling case for the necessity of cultural production to a just society. Looking across an era, Culture Makers shows how several kinds of artistic producers and their work strove to make sense of radical changes confronting people in the 1920s United States. This excellent book speaks eloquently to dance studies, American studies, theatre studies, and architecture and urban design readers alike."--Linda J. Tomko, author of Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Work, Consumerism, and the City 1 1. Drama and the Rhythm of Work in the 1920s 19 2. Consumption and Commitment: Rachel Crothers and the Flapper's Dilemma 39 3. More than Rhythm: The Charleston 64 4. The Inner Self of Martha Graham: Versions of Authenticity 86 5. "Make Yourself for an American": Anzia Yezierska's Public Sphere 111 6. Urban Form versus Human Function in the 1920s: Lewis Mumford and John Dos Passos 135 Conclusion: Geographies of Knowledge 155 Notes 163 Works Cited 177 Index 193
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University of Illinois Press Dancing across Borders
Book SynopsisOne of the first anthologies to focus on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the borderTrade Review"This stimulating collection expands our understanding of Mexican dance's significance by employing dance as a prism through which to view broader sociocultural issues and meaning. It sets a new standard for anthropological dance studies far beyond its U.S.-Mexico focus."--Daniel Sheehy, author of Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction xiiiOlga Najera-Ramirez, Norma E. Cantu, and Brenda M. RomeroPart I: Contested Identities 1. Embodied Recuperations: Performance, Indigeneity, and Danza Azteca 3 Elisa Diana Huerta 2. The Zapopan Dancers: Reinventing an Indigenous Line of Descent 19 Renee de la Torre Castellanos 3. La Feria de Enero: Rethinking Gender in a Ritual Festival 48 Xochitl C. Chavez 4. Dancing to "Whittier Boulevard": Choreographing Social Identity 66 Marie "Keta" Miranda 5. Creating Agency and Identity in Danza Azteca 80 Maria Teresa CesenaPart II: Dimensions of Space and Place 6. The Semiotics of Land and Place: Matachines Dancing in Laredo, Texas 97 Norma E. Cantu 7. Dancing to the Heights: Performing Zapotec Identity, Aesthetics, and Religiosity 116 Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez 8. Traditional Dances of the Sierra Norte of Puebla: Identity and Gender Relations 138 Alberto Zarate Rosales 9. Por Que Estas Aqui?: Dancing through History, Identity, and the Politics of Place in Butoh Ritual Mexicano 148 Shakina Nayfack 10. El Baile de los Elotes: The Corn Dance 165 Jose Sanchez JimenezPart III: Trajectories of Tradition 11. The Matachines Danza as Intercultural Discourse 185 Brenda M. Romero 12. The Ballet Folklorico de Mexico and the Construction of the Mexican Nation through Dance 206 Sydney Hutchinson 13. Dancing Culture: A Personal Perspective on Folklorico 226 Rudy F. Garcia 14. The Mexican Danzon: Restrained Sensuality 237 Susan Cashion 15. Gender as a Theme in the Modern Dance Choreography of Barro Rojo 256 Nancy Lee Chalfa RuyterPart IV: Politics of Traditional and Innovation 16. Staging Authenticty: Theorizing the Development of Mexican Folklorico Dance 277 Olga Najera-Ramirez 17. Dance, Politics, and Cultural Tourism in Oaxaca's Guelgauetza 293 Chris Goerizen 18. Bailando para San Lorenzo: Nuevo Mexicano Popular Traditional Musics, Ritual Contexts, and Dancing during Bernalillo Fiesta Time 318 Peter J. Garcia 19. Folklorico in the United States: Cultural Preservation and Disillusion 335 Russell Rodriguez 20. Zapateado Afro-Chicana Fandango Style: Self-Reflective Moments in Zapateado 359 Martha Gonzalez Epilogue 379 Selected Bibliography on Folk, Ritual, and Social Dance in Greater Mexico 383 Works Cited 403 Contributors 431 Index 437
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University of Illinois Press Butoh Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy
Book SynopsisTracing the international growth of a transformative Japanese dance formTrade Review"Translated poetically and mapped out with scientific precision . . . The book offers a pedagogical map for taking the time to suspend what we know, how we believe we've come to know it, and question what might happen, if we turn, spiral, slip, fall, slither, and sense our way 'back to the dance itself.'" --Dance Research Journal"Illuminates the myriad ways butoh and its Japanese aesthetic have influenced and been influenced by Western thought."--Pacific Affairs"Recommended."--Choice"An engaging, informative, and thought provoking text useful to anyone who is engaged with dance, somatics, transformation, or healing."--American Journal of Dance Therapy"There are moments of breathtaking beauty in this book--many of them--as Fraleigh shares her deep, personal engagement with butoh history and its current expressions. She expertly weaves philosophical reflections through engaging descriptions of dances she has seen to bring butoh to life for her readers as a global phenomenon that is transforming and healing western values."--Kimerer LaMothe, Ph.D., author of Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham is a tour-de-force brilliantly analyzing the cinematic depictions in a black Atlantic context. The full implications of the European depictions of these wonderful dancers is teased out through exhaustive attention to dancing techniques, cinematography and the two women’s autobiographical writings. A must read for all scholars of African American performance and cultural politics."--Alan Rice, author of Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic"Makes a significant contribution to the field. . . . The dance performances of these artists as recreated onscreen are interpreted and read through the lens of a dance critic who interrogates the dancing body which appropriated diasporic dance techniques over which the artist did not always control."--Charlene B. Regester, African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900–1960
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University of Illinois Press ADVERSARIES OF DANCE
Book SynopsisTrade Review"There are no other works that even begin to approach this definitive accomplishment." -- Amanda Porterfield, author of Female Piety in Puritan New EnglandTable of ContentsPreface vii Introduction xi Part 1: European Antecedents 1. The Pre-Reformation Tradition 3 2. The Voices of Protestant Reformers 19 Part 2: American Attitudes 3. The Puritans in New England: The Seventeenth Century 47 4. The Gentry and the Awakening: The Eighteenth Century 70 5. Early Evangelicals and American Etiquette: 1800-1839 106 6. The Evangelical Mainstream and Radical Reformers: 1840-60 141 7. Conservatives, Liberals, and the City: 1865-89 193 8. Embattled Fundamentalists and the Rhetoric of Moral Panic: 1890-1939 236 9. Urban Reformers and the Dance Hall: 1908-40 292 10. The Polemic Upstaged: 1930-69 and Beyond 320 Part 3: Critical Variables and Cultural Context 11. The Nature of Dance and the Polemic in Reprise 363 12. Aesthetics, Morality, and Gender 383 Appendix A. Bible Verses on Dance 401 B. Known European Adversaries of Dance 407 C. Lesser-Known Adversaries Mentioned in the Text 413 Index 423
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University of Illinois Press The Body Eclectic
Book SynopsisA discussion of current practices in modern dance trainingTrade Review"Invaluable... A rich resource for personal investigation that not only encourages but also offers a generative framework for developing ones personal agency and artistry during challenging times."--Dance Research Journal "Rich with anecdotes and a treasure trove of citations and references, this book will give dance teachers, scholars, graduate students, and dancers a fascinating read."--Dance Magazine "Recommended."--Choice "A fascinating, timely portrait of a dance landscape that looks dramatically different from the one that existed when modern dance was in the earliest stages of professionalization."--Dance Chronicle "The book makes a welcome contribution to the field of dance studies and dance education, and it will be a valuable resource for Technique teachers in general, especially those working with dancers."--AMSAT NewsTable of ContentsContributors include Melanie Bales, Glenna Batson, Wendell Beavers, Veronica Dittman, Natalie Gilbert, Josh Monten, Martha Myers, and Rebecca Nettl-Fiol. Dance professionals interviewed include David Dorfman, Ralph Lemon, Bebe Miller, Tere O'Connor, and Shelley Washington
£23.39
University of Illinois Press Dancing across Borders
Book SynopsisOne of the first anthologies to focus on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the borderTrade Review"This stimulating collection expands our understanding of Mexican dance's significance by employing dance as a prism through which to view broader sociocultural issues and meaning. It sets a new standard for anthropological dance studies far beyond its U.S.-Mexico focus."--Daniel Sheehy, author of Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction xiiiOlga Najera-Ramirez, Norma E. Cantu, and Brenda M. RomeroPart I: Contested Identities 1. Embodied Recuperations: Performance, Indigeneity, and Danza Azteca 3 Elisa Diana Huerta 2. The Zapopan Dancers: Reinventing an Indigenous Line of Descent 19 Renee de la Torre Castellanos 3. La Feria de Enero: Rethinking Gender in a Ritual Festival 48 Xochitl C. Chavez 4. Dancing to "Whittier Boulevard": Choreographing Social Identity 66 Marie "Keta" Miranda 5. Creating Agency and Identity in Danza Azteca 80 Maria Teresa CesenaPart II: Dimensions of Space and Place 6. The Semiotics of Land and Place: Matachines Dancing in Laredo, Texas 97 Norma E. Cantu 7. Dancing to the Heights: Performing Zapotec Identity, Aesthetics, and Religiosity 116 Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez 8. Traditional Dances of the Sierra Norte of Puebla: Identity and Gender Relations 138 Alberto Zarate Rosales 9. Por Que Estas Aqui?: Dancing through History, Identity, and the Politics of Place in Butoh Ritual Mexicano 148 Shakina Nayfack 10. El Baile de los Elotes: The Corn Dance 165 Jose Sanchez JimenezPart III: Trajectories of Tradition 11. The Matachines Danza as Intercultural Discourse 185 Brenda M. Romero 12. The Ballet Folklorico de Mexico and the Construction of the Mexican Nation through Dance 206 Sydney Hutchinson 13. Dancing Culture: A Personal Perspective on Folklorico 226 Rudy F. Garcia 14. The Mexican Danzon: Restrained Sensuality 237 Susan Cashion 15. Gender as a Theme in the Modern Dance Choreography of Barro Rojo 256 Nancy Lee Chalfa RuyterPart IV: Politics of Traditional and Innovation 16. Staging Authenticty: Theorizing the Development of Mexican Folklorico Dance 277 Olga Najera-Ramirez 17. Dance, Politics, and Cultural Tourism in Oaxaca's Guelgauetza 293 Chris Goerizen 18. Bailando para San Lorenzo: Nuevo Mexicano Popular Traditional Musics, Ritual Contexts, and Dancing during Bernalillo Fiesta Time 318 Peter J. Garcia 19. Folklorico in the United States: Cultural Preservation and Disillusion 335 Russell Rodriguez 20. Zapateado Afro-Chicana Fandango Style: Self-Reflective Moments in Zapateado 359 Martha Gonzalez Epilogue 379 Selected Bibliography on Folk, Ritual, and Social Dance in Greater Mexico 383 Works Cited 403 Contributors 431 Index 437
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MO - University of Illinois Press Butoh Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy
Book SynopsisTracing the international growth of a transformative Japanese dance formTrade Review"Translated poetically and mapped out with scientific precision . . . The book offers a pedagogical map for taking the time to suspend what we know, how we believe we've come to know it, and question what might happen, if we turn, spiral, slip, fall, slither, and sense our way 'back to the dance itself.'" --Dance Research Journal"Illuminates the myriad ways butoh and its Japanese aesthetic have influenced and been influenced by Western thought."--Pacific Affairs"Recommended."--Choice"An engaging, informative, and thought provoking text useful to anyone who is engaged with dance, somatics, transformation, or healing."--American Journal of Dance Therapy"There are moments of breathtaking beauty in this book--many of them--as Fraleigh shares her deep, personal engagement with butoh history and its current expressions. She expertly weaves philosophical reflections through engaging descriptions of dances she has seen to bring butoh to life for her readers as a global phenomenon that is transforming and healing western values."--Kimerer LaMothe, Ph.D., author of Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values
£22.49
University of Illinois Press Dancing Lives
Book SynopsisThe private and performance lives of five female dancers in Western dance historyTrade Review"Eliot . . . chronicles the lives of five female 'underdog' dancers . . . focusing on such details as their social and economic status, education, dance training and how they came to dance professionally. Amusing anecdotes abound. . . . Eliot's Dancing Lives shines a spotlight on the lives of five lesser-known dancers."--Dance Teacher "This accessible resource offers less experienced scholars of dance easy entry into studying dance as cultural history. Recommended."--Choice "She has enriched our understanding of dance history. . . . Recommended."--Library Journal"An engaging read for all those who enjoy the ephemeral qualities of dance."--ForeWord"Eliot’s writing is a labor of love, and her affection toward her subjects is inspiring."--Time Out Chicago"Eliot embarks on a wide-ranging meditation on each of five dancers, evoking the nature of her talent and artistry, her teachers, her repertory, her peers, the social and economic constraints under which she labored, the aesthetics of the period, and what she contributed to the choreography she danced and to the art in general. In each chapter a new world unfolds, opening doors to the dance history of the period, teasing out what it meant to be a dancer at distinct historical moments, and placing the performer--the female performer--at the center of an art that since the Romantic era has been to a considerable extent a mediation on the nature of femininity."--Lynn Garafola, professor of dance, Barnard College, and author of Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet"Uniting a uniquely embodied knowledge of the dancing body with historic social and aesthetic concerns, Karen Eliot's Dancing Lives creates a gallery of fresh and compelling portraits of women who dance. Eliot illuminates the hidden dimensions of their emotional and psychological lives in her focus on developments in ballet and modern dance since the eighteenth century. In writing that is clear, accessible, and gently affectionate, this dance historian and former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company makes the persuasive argument that a close and careful look at the full lives of past dancers affords a unique view of world history, cultural evolutions, and historical dance events."--Janice Ross, author of Anna Halprin: Experience as DanceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Giovanna Baccelli 7 2. Adele Dumilatre 33 3. Tamara Karsavina 60 4. Moira Shearer 91 5. Catherine Kerr 119 Epilogue 143 Notes 149 Bibliography 173 Index 181 Illustrations follow page 90
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University of Illinois Press Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham
Book SynopsisJosephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the first black women to enjoy international screen careers. Both also produced fascinating memoirs that provided vital insights into their artistic philosophies and choices. However, difficulties in accessing and categorizing their works on the screen and on the page have obscured their contributions to film and literature. Hannah Durkin investigates Baker and Dunham's films and writings to shed new light on their legacies as transatlantic artists and civil rights figures. Their trailblazing dancing and choreography reflected a belief that they could use film to confront racist assumptions while also imaginingwithin significant confinesnew aesthetic possibilities for black women. Their writings, meanwhile, revealed their creative process, engagement with criticism, and the ways each mediated cultural constructions of black women's identities. DurTrade Review"Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham is a tour-de-force brilliantly analyzing the cinematic depictions in a black Atlantic context. The full implications of the European depictions of these wonderful dancers is teased out through exhaustive attention to dancing techniques, cinematography and the two women’s autobiographical writings. A must read for all scholars of African American performance and cultural politics."--Alan Rice, author of Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic"Makes a significant contribution to the field. . . . The dance performances of these artists as recreated onscreen are interpreted and read through the lens of a dance critic who interrogates the dancing body which appropriated diasporic dance techniques over which the artist did not always control."--Charlene B. Regester, African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900–1960
£19.79
Indiana University Press Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFaces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts examine the dynamic relationship between individual representatives of tradition and the evolution of the traditions themselves. -- A. C. Shahriari, Kent State University * Choice *This notable volume, comprising five schol-arly articles illuminating different aspects or genres of folk performance traditions in China, is solidly grounded on meticulous research and thoughtful discourse. -- Joanna C. Lee * Journal of American Folklore *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts / Levi S. Gibbs1. Grasping Intangible Heritage and Reimagining Inner Mongolia: Folk-Artist Albums and a New Logic for Musical Representation in China / Charlotte D'Evelyn2. Chinese Singing Contests as Site of Negotiation Among Individuals and Traditions / Levi S. Gibbs3. Dynamic Inheritance: Representative Works and the Authoring of Tradition in Chinese Dance / Emily E. Wilcox4. Collecting Flowers, Defining a Genre: Zhang Yaxiong and the Anthology of Hua'er Folksongs / Sue Tuohy5. From Field Recordings to Ethnographically Informed CDs: Curating the Sounds of Yunnan for a Niche Foreign Market / Helen ReesGlossary of Chinese Terms and PhrasesIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press Rumba
Book SynopsisCuba's social and cultural complexity interpreted through the history and expressive power of rumba.Table of ContentsPREFACE1. Introduction: Portraits of a Dance2. Cuban Dance Culture3. Cuban People and Rumberos4. Performance of Rumba5. Symbolic Aspects of Rumba6. Social and Aesthetic Change in CubaAPPENDIX: LABANOTATIONNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
£15.19
University of Washington Press Lone Scherfigs Italian for Beginners
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n excellent introduction of the subject [Dogme], and is not over dependent on the now considerable literature on it." -- Edward Gallafent * Viewfinder *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface | Why “Italiensk for Begynder (Italian for Beginners)”? 1. Lone Scherfig | The Person, the Ouevre 2. Practitioners’ Agency | The Impact of the Dogma Framework 3. Critical Reception | Toward the Idea of an Ethical Feel-Good Movie 4. Kindness | On the Manifestation of a Consistent Attitude 5. A Different Kind of Feel-Good Movie | “Italian for Beginners” and Moral Learning Dogma 95: A Manifesto “Italian for Beginners” Credits Awards Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
£532.69
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Dance and the Nation Performance Ritual and
Book SynopsisFocuses on the complexities of aesthetic politics in an exploration of Kandyan dance in Sri Lanka. This book traces the history and consequences of this transition from ritual to stage, situating the dance in relation to postcolonial nationalism and ethnic politics and emphasizing the voices of the hereditary dancers and of women performers.Trade Review"Dance and the Nation will stand as a landmark contribution to dance ethnography and be regarded as an important text in South Asian studies as well as dance studies for many years to come." - Sally Ann Ness, University of California, Riverside "A new chapter in the anthropology of dance." - E. Valentine Daniel, Columbia University"
£30.64
Yale University Press Ballets Magic Kingdom Selected Writings on Dance
Book SynopsisAkim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book features a collection of his provocative and influential writings, and provides a look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history.Trade Review"An exhilarating gathering of writings by a profoundly influential critic, and a striking, startling contribution to the historical record."—Simon Morrison, Princeton University -- Simon Morrison“An extremely important contribution to the literature on dance.”—Lynn Garafola, author of The Ballet Russes and Its World -- Lynn Garafola"This is a fantastic book. . . . The book is a must for anyone claiming a love of ballet. . . . [Volynsky's text] is always hugely entertaining and surprising, you will never look at a toeshoe, a tiara or a tendu . . . the same way again."—Toni Bentley, New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) -- Toni Bentley * New York Times Book Review *
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Yale University Press America Dancing
Book SynopsisAn exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the artTrade Review"As signifying dancers, men and women fly out of this deep, long-nurtured book. In clear and sensual prose, Megan Pugh has fashioned a history of modern America in gestures and movement. The pages never hold still." GREIL MARCUS, author of The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs and Real Life Rock -- Greil Marcus“With her locomotive prose, virtuosic analysis, and acrobatic storytelling, Megan Pugh brings America's most dazzling dancers stair-tapping and moonwalking back to life. With profound historical insight, she also shows how these gravity-defying heroes made their highwire crossings – between ‘high’ and ‘low’ taste, between classes and races – only look like a cakewalk. America Dancing is more exhilarating, and more revealing, than cultural history has a right to be.” JOHN BECKMAN, author of American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt -- John Beckman"This history sizzles, glides, soars, skitters, hammers, taps, and leaps through decades as well as diverse dance forms, from the worlds of cinema to Broadway, ballet and beyond. An exciting, important book!" PEGGY and MURRAY SCHWARTZ, authors of The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus -- Peggy and Murray Schwartz"Although Pugh's scholarship is considerable, she is writing not for a scholarly but for a general audience. . . . The author has a dancer's grace in the flow of her prose. . . . Pugh gracefully dances the fine line between critic and fan."—Kirkus Reviews * Kirkus Reviews *"Pugh handles dance as an art form and its historical context with equal deftness. She builds her book around the personal stories of some of the biggest names in American dance. . . . Not only does Pugh draw sometimes unexpected connections among them and place them within her larger story, she also describes their dancing so vividly that readers will want to see the dances themselves."—Shelf Awareness, Starred Review * Shelf Awareness *"Valuable, original, refreshing, wide-ranging. . . . Ms. Pugh’s writing is excellent, and the book is mind opening. To an invaluable extent, it’s about the influences of African-Americans on American dance. . . . The breadth and wealth of information often dazzle. . . . This book alters and enriches American dance history. It doesn’t change the record of what happened when; instead, it revises our sense of how things came to pass."—Alastair Macaulay, New York Times -- Alastair Macaulay * New York Times *"Pugh executes some fancy footwork of her own; and like Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson taking flight up a flight of stairs (and back down again), Pugh nimbly keeps step with a chronology that’s given to doubling back abruptly and leaping forward."—Boston Globe * Boston Globe *
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Yale University Press Dance
Book SynopsisA landmark examination of the art and artists inspired by American dance from 1830 to 1960
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Yale University Press Sunday. Pierre Droulers Choreographer
Book SynopsisThis bookcelebrates 40 years of work by Pierre Droulers (b. 1951), a pioneer of contemporary dance and choreographer of more than 30 works. A key figure in France and Belgium since the 1970s, Droulers was one of the first students to graduate from the Mundra School. In tune with the zeitgeist since the beginning of his career, Droulers has collaborated with singular and forward-thinking musicians, from jazz saxophonist Steve Lacy and beat poet Brion Gysin to Isreali group Minimal Compact and performance artist Winston Tong. In later years Droulers has developed fruitful artistic exchanges with visual artists, particularly Michel François and Ann Veronica Janssens. Drawing on archives for images and text, along with personal recollections and quotations, this monograph presents a three-dimensional narrative: the collisions of faces, landscapes, and words revealing Droulers's artistic world as one of obsessions and fantasies, of light and darkness. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
£23.75
Yale University Press Physics and Dance
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A unique study”—Nature“After reading this book, you will never again think of dance without the physics that enables it, and you will never again think of physics without the art that can express it.”—Neil deGrasse Tyson“Physics and Dance will be of interest to dancers, scientists, and a general public who wish to understand an ongoing relationship between the two.”—Twyla Tharp"This fascinating book blends physics depth and dance details with a seemingly impossible grace.”—Daniel Whiteson, author of We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe“Each [uses] her discipline to shed light on the other’s. . . . While science tends to be viewed as more serious than dance, their approach revolves around collapsing hierarchies, giving equal weight to both.”—Siobhan Burke, New York Times review of Emily Coates's 2017 performance Incarnations, based in part on their collaboration“Dancer and choreographer Coates and physicist Demers have created a brilliant exercise that is both challenging and rewarding. As a dancer I had never thought of myself as a small mass in relation to a larger one, namely, planet Earth, at least not in those terms. Part of the fun for the reader lies in figuring out, from page to page, which voice is speaking; both are erudite, meticulous, and convincing.”—Yvonne Rainer
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Hachette Books Jazz Dance
Book SynopsisThe Story of American Vernacular DanceTable of Contents* Marshall Winslow Stearns: An Appreciation by James T. Maher * Prologue Prehistory * Africa and the West Indies * New Orleans and the South * The Pattern of Diffusion Beginnings * From Folk to Professional * Early Minstrelsy * Minstrel Dances and Dancers * Late Minstrelsy The Vernacular * Medicine Shows and Gillies * Carnivals, Circuses, and Negro Minstrels * Roadshows, T.O.B.A., and Picks * The Witman Sisters Tin Pan Alley and Song Lyrics * Ballroom Origins * The Song Writer: Perry BradfordI * The Song Writer: Perry BradfordII Broadway and the Reviewers * Williams and Walker and the Beginnings of Vernacular Dance on Broadway * Early Harlem * Shuffle Along * Broadway: The Early Twenties * Broadway: The Late Twenties * Choreography: Buddy Bradley Technique: Pioneers, Innovators, and Stylists * King Rastus Brown and the Time Step * Bill Robinson: Up on the Toes * Frank Condos: Wings and the Expanding Repertory * James Barton: Versatility * Harland Dixon and Character Dancing * John W. Bubbles and Rhythm Tap * Fred Astaire Specialties * Eccentric Dancing * Comedy Dancing * Russian Dancing Acrobatics * Straight Acrobatics * The New Acrobatics * The Flash Acts The Class Acts * The Original Stylists * The First Class-Act Team: Greenlee and Drayton * Pete Nugent and the Class Acts * Coles and Atkins: The Last of the Class Acts The Jitterbug * Harlem Background * The Savoy Ballroom * From Coast to Coast Requiem * Baby Laurence and the Hoffers Club * Groundhog * The Dying Breed * Epilogue
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The Perseus Books Group Tap The Greatest Tap Dance Stars And Their
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Hachette Books How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And
Book SynopsisIn these pages Roger Corman, the most successful independent filmmaker in Hollywood relates his experiences as the director and/or producer of such low-budget classics Attack of the Crab Monsters, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Raven, The Man with the X-ray Eyes, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Night Call Nurses, Bloody Mama, Piranha, and many others. He also discusses his distribution of the Bergman, Fellini, and Truffaut movies that later won Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category. Corman alumniJohn Sayles, Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Vincent Price, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Fonda, Joe Dante, and Jonathan Demme, among otherscontribute their recollections to give added perspective to Corman''s often hilarious, always informative autobiography.
£14.39
Hachette Books Burn
Book SynopsisThe founders of Burn Boot Camp, a fitness franchise with over 110,000 active members in over 400 locations around the country, offer a healthy lifestyle plan for people who struggle with their self-improvement-featuring the Burn 10-Minute Meal Plan and more than 100 Burn 10-Minute Recipes.How would you like to create a life you love? As the CEO and COO of Burn Boot Camp, one of the fastest growing health franchises in the world, Devan and Morgan Kline have spent years devising the ultimate plan to answer that question. Now, they share their all their best advice in Keep Moving Forward, your five point plan to stop self-sabotage and break bad habits like eating junk food, drinking too much, and not exercising enough or at all. And once and for all, you can end your depression and experience greater happiness. Keep Moving Forward is a book for people who struggle with their self-improvement efforts. It''s based on one powerful assertion that makes this boo
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc The Art Of Movement
Book SynopsisThe Art of Movement is an exquisitely designed, beautifully produced book that captures the movement, flow, energy, and grace of many of the most accomplished dancers in the world. These are the artists, from all walks of life, who are defining dance today. Here they are frozen in time in the most exquisite poses, and yet there''s a feeling of movement in every photograph that makes the appear to be dancing across the pages. Accompanying the photographs are intimate and inspiring words from the dancers, as well as from choreographers and artistic directors, on what dance means to them. Dance is experiencing an unprecedented moment in popular culture. The Art of Movement is the perfect book for newly avid fans, as well as long-time lovers of dance.
£46.75
Hachette Books Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain
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John Murray Press Dancer off Her Feet
Book SynopsisDANCER OFF HER FEET is an incredible true story that stands as an irrefutable witness to God''s power to heal people both physically and spiritually. It has inspired and encouraged many thousands of people since its first publication in 1991. This edition contains a foreword written twelve years on, which brings Julie''s story up to date and details the highs and lows she has since experienced.For three years, former ballet dancer Julie Sheldon was stricken with the neurological disease Dystonia, and her life hung in the balance. Crippled, enduring fierce muscle spasms, she was in intensive care when Canon Jim Glennon prayed for her. ''A corner was turned after that visit in June 1989, and by July I was out of hospital. In August I was out of the wheelchair and off crutches for good, and in September off all drugs. All the time there was this conviction of total healing, not just of the body but of the mind and spirit as well.''The news hit press headlines and amazed doctors: ''Jul
£8.54
Little, Brown Book Group Dancing in the Rain
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Little, Brown Book Group Dancing in the Rain
Book SynopsisAn inspiring and heartfelt reminder to never give up, by Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer Amy Dowden.
£10.44
Lulu.com Stage Hypnosis My Way
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£14.54
Lulu.com The SHINOBI Black Ops On the BLACK DRAGON
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£20.13
Lulu.com John Carpenter The Halloween Machine Profile
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£9.14
Taylor & Francis Performing Digital
Digital technologies have transformed archives in every area of their form and function, and as technologies mature so does their capacity to change our understanding and experience of material and performative cultural production. There has been an exponential explosion in the production and consumption of video online and yet there is a scarcity of knowledge and cases about video and the digital archive. This book seeks to address that through the lens of the project Circus Oz Living Archive. This project provides the case study foundation for the articulation of the issues, challenges and possibilities that the design and development of digital archives afford. Drawn from eight different disciplines and professions, the authors explore what it means to embrace the possibilities of digital technologies to transform contemporary cultural institutions and their archives into new methods of performance, representation and history.
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Taylor & Francis Commercial Dance
This is an exploration of the vital and rapidly evolving world of Commercial Dance, tracing the evolution and merging of Hip-Hop, Club and Jazz dance styles from the music videos of the early 1980s, to today's huge influence on pop music and dance in a multi-media culture.Chapters including âIconic Momentsâ and âMain Moversâ contextualise and analyse culturally significant works and choreographers. With direct contributions from an international array of industry leading dancers, choreographers and creatives - including JaQuel Knight (Beyonceâs choreographer), Rich + Tone Talauega (Madonna & Michael Jackson collaborators), Rebbi Rosie (Rihannaâs dancer), Dean Lee (Janet Jacksonâs choreographer) and Kiel Tutin (BLACKPINKâs choreographer) - this book shines a light on the creatives in the Commercial Dance industry who have made significant impacts, not just on the world of dance but on popular culture itself. Chapters discussing dance history, copyright law, inclusivity and dan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Choreography The Basics
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive and concise overview of choreography both as a creative skill and as a field of study, introducing readers to the essential theory and context of choreographic practice.Providing invaluable practical considerations for creating choreography as well as leading international examples from a range of geographical and cultural contexts, this resource will enhance students' knowledge of how to create dance. This clear guide outlines both historical and recent developments within the field, including how choreographers are influenced by technology and intercultural exchange, whilst also demonstrating the potential to address social, political and philosophical themes. It further explores how students can devise and analyse their own work in a range of styles, how choreography can be used in range of contexts including site-specific work and digital technologies and engages with communities of performers to give helpful, expert suggTrade Review"Roche and Burridge's book, Choreography: The Basics, is an insightful introduction to the theory and practice of choreography that is illustrated with current choreographic examples from diverse regions and cultural contexts. For anyone considering studying dance as a profession, I would recommend this book."Professor Anna CY Chan, Dean of the School of Dance, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts"Choreography: The Basics is ideally suited to undergraduates seeking to better understand a multiplicity of approaches to making dances. Emphasising the social and relational aspects of choreography, alongside its craft and discipline, this accessible text is packed with insights and portraits of choreographic processes for the twenty-first century."Professor Carol Brown, Head of VCA Dance, University of Melbourne"Brought to life through diverse examples, Choreography: The Basics provides a road map of the experience, knowledge and contexts of making dances. I would recommend this book to all dance students and scholars eager to establish a sound basis to their choreographic studies."Dr Jamieson Dryburgh, Director of Higher Education, Central School of Ballet, LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1. The Journey Begins, 2. Choreographic Notebook, 3. Broader Skills a Choreographer Needs, 4. Choreographic (Re)evolution, Documentation and Preservation, 5. A Choreographic Voice, 6. Choreography for Sites, Screens and Community Practice, Conclusion: Next Steps on Your Choreographic Journey
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Blurb, Inc. A Woman of No Importance
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Random House USA Inc Reading Dance
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