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Taylor & Francis Ltd Kpop Dance
Book SynopsisThis book is about K-pop dance and the evolution and presence of its dance fandom on social media. Based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, choreography, and participation-observation with 40 amateur and professional K-pop dancers in New York, California, and Seoul, the book traces the evolution of K-pop dance from the 1980s to the 2020s and explains its distinctive feature called gestural point choreography' front-driven, two-dimensional, decorative and charming movements of the upper body and face as an example of what the author theorizes as social media dance.' It also explores K-pop cover dance as a form of intercultural performance, suggesting that, by imitating and idolizing K-pop dance, fans are eventually fandoming' themselves and their bodies.Presenting an ethnographic study of K-pop dance and its fandom, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Media Studies, Korean Studies, Performance Studies, and Dance.Table of ContentsPart I: K-pop Dance 1. Social Media Dance: TikTok Dance Challenges 2. The Evolution of K-pop Dance from the 1980s to the 2020s 3. BTS: The Modern Dancers Part 2: K-pop Dance Fandom 4. K-pop Cover Dance as Intercultural Performance 5. A White K-pop Fan-Dancer in Japan 6. A Refuge for Refugee Teens
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential future developments.It locates these features both historicallywithin dance in particular social and cultural contextsand in relation to other academic influences that have impinged on dance studies as a discipline. The editors use a thematically based approach that emphasizes that dance scholarship does not stand alone as a single entity, but is inevitably linked to other related fields, debates, and concerns. Authors from across continents have contributed chapters based on theoretical, methodological, ethnographic, and practice-based case studies, bringing together a wealth of expertise and insight to offer a study that is in-depth and wide-ranging. Ideal for scholars and upper-level students of dance and performance studies, The Routledge Companion to DancTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction - Stacey Prickett and Helen Thomas Section I Dance and Corporeality: Training and Engagement Section II Dance and Somatics Section III Dance and Analysis Section IV Dance, Society and Culture Section V Dance and Time Section VI Dance and Scenography 25 Section VII Dance, Space and Place Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nutrition for Dance and Performance
Book SynopsisNutrition for Dance and Performance is the first complete textbook written by an experienced dietitian specialising in the field of dance nutrition. It seeks to provide both dancers-in-training and instructors with practical advice on dance nutrition for health and performance. It is also highly relevant for dance professionals. With an in-depth and extensive coverage on all nutrition topics relevant to dancers, this book covers nutrition for the scenarios dancers face, including day-to-day training and rehearsals, peak performance, injuries, immunonutrition, nutrition and stress management. Information is included on topics applicable to individual dancers including advice for dancers with Type 1 diabetes and clinical conditions relating to gut health. The book guides the reader through the macronutrients making up the diet, their chemical structure and their role in health and optimal performance. Readers are shown how to estimate energy and nutrieTable of Contents1. Dance Nutrition2. Food and the Dancer3. Energy for Dance 4. Carbohydrate for Training and Performance 5. Protein for Strength and Body Maintenance6. Dietary Fat for Health and Longevity7. Hydration for Stamina and Performance Optimisation8. Supplements to Support Health and Performance (To Supplement Food Not Replace It)9. Body Composition10. Disordered Eating 11. Health and Performance12. Plant Based Diets for Dancers 13. Clinical Nutrition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Psychology of Perfectionism in Sport Dance
Book SynopsisThis extensively revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive account of the latest research and practice issues relating to perfectionism in sport, dance, and exercise.The new edition of The Psychology of Perfectionism in Sport, Dance, and Exercise includes the latest understanding of perfectionism, its benefits and costs, and support that can be given to those at risk to the perils of perfectionism. The book features contributions from leading researchers and practitioners. With nine new chapters and six updated chapters, the book provides an exhaustive account of research, novel approaches to studying and working with perfectionism, along with critical reflections on key issues and controversies. The book includes a new section on emerging approaches and concepts, as well as a revised section on applied issues and practitioner perspectives offering three new approaches to working with perfectionism. With chapters featuring returning authors anTrade Review"The revised edition of The Psychology of Perfectionism in Sport, Dance, and Exercise is a timely and valuable contribution to the understanding of the rise of perfectionism in diverse physical activity settings. Professor Andrew Hill has done an excellent job in this second edition by providing new conceptual and methodological insights, updating the evidence base, as well as offering important practical suggestions to develop interventions that address the negative consequences of perfectionism for physical and mental functioning. I highly recommend this book to students, researchers, and practitioners."Professor Nikos Ntoumanis, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark"This second edition of The Psychology of Perfectionism in Sport, Dance, and Exercise by Professor Andrew Hill and his team of contributors is an essential read for researchers, coaches, exercise enthusiasts, as well as psychology practitioners. The book skilfully maps out the latest evidence related to the nature, development, and consequences of perfectionism in its various guises. It also thoughtfully presents evidence-informed recommendations for those working with athletes, exercisers, and dancers who exhibit perfectionism. A highly recommended read!"Professor Mark Beauchamp, University of British Columbia, Canada"Edited by one of the world-leading researchers on perfectionism in performance domains, and comprising a variety of insightful, critical, and novel chapters written by leaders in the field, this book should be a go-to resource for any academics or practitioners interested in understanding this complex and important topic. Taking a critical and reflective approach to the field, the text provokes you to reconsider perceptions pertaining to perfectionism and re-evaluate your understanding of both research and practice as it pertains to perfectionism."Professor Camilla Knight, Swansea University, United KingdomTable of Contents1. Conceptualising perfectionism: Resolving old quarrels and starting new ones. 2. Advances in the measurement of perfectionism in sport, dance and exercise. 3. Revisiting the development of perfectionism in sport, dance and exercise. 4. An update and extension of the independent effects approach to perfectionism in sport, dance, and exercise. 5. Re-Envisioning the tripartite model of perfectionism in sport and dance. 6. The 2 × 2 model of perfectionism in sport, dance, and exercise: An updated and critical review. 7. Perfectionistic tipping points and how to find them. 8. Perfectionism cognitions in sport, dance, and exercise. 9. Studying perfectionistic climates. 10. Working with perfectionistic athletes: An Acceptance Commitment Therapy perspective. 11. Applying self-compassion to perfectionism in sport. 12. Perfectionism in sport: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy perspective. 13. Reflections on 20 years studying multidimensional perfectionism in sport. 14. Questions, critical reflections, and advances with the model of excellencism and perfectionism: A call to action. 15. Reflections on the costs of rigid perfectionism and perfectionistic reactivity: The core significance of the failure to adapt in sports and in life.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Undergraduate Research in Dance
Book SynopsisUndergraduate Research in Dance: A Guide for Students supplies tools for scaffolding research skills, alongside examples of undergraduate research in dance scholarship. This second edition has been updated throughout for current students, with new chapters on mentoring and dance studies.Dance can be studied as an expressive embodied art form with physical, cognitive, and affective domains, and as an integral part of society, history, and vast areas of interdisciplinary content. To this end, the guidance provided by this book will equip future dance professionals with the means to move the field of dance forward. Chapters 19 guide students through the fundamentals of research methods, providing a foundation to help students get started in understanding research protocols and processes. A new chapter 10 provides guidelines for mentoring undergraduate students in dance. Chapters 1121 detail forms of undergraduate research in a rich diversity of
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Taylor & Francis Afrikinesis
Book SynopsisThis book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on African dance and on any dance style that contains African elements.This book explains why Western research paradigms are inadequate for research on Africana dance. It exposes the value of utilizing an appropriate research paradigm that offers researchers a broader perspective and a transparent, unfettered process for analysis in under-researched topics such as African and African diaspora dance styles. Researchers are introduced to the African dance aesthetic, characteristically African body movements, definitions of steps, understandings within African culture, and a host of other jewels that facilitate a deeper grasp on the subject and refine the quality of the scholarâs research, its findings, and its proficiency.This book will be of great interest to scholars of African dance studies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo
Book SynopsisNow re-issued, this compact book unravels the contribution of one of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators. Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo combines: an account of the founding of Japanese butoh through the partnership of Hijikata and Ohno, extending to the larger story of butoh's international assimilation an exploration of the impact of the social and political issues of post-World War II Japan on the aesthetic development of butoh metamorphic dance experiences that students of butoh can explore a glossary of English and Japanese terms.As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student.Table of ContentsPREFACE TO 2018 RE-ISSUE, Sondra FraleighINTRODUCTIONBUTOH SHAPESHIFTERSKaze Daruma: the origins of butoh Hijikata’s butohNature, mud, and butoh morphology Butoh alchemy in global circulation Hijikata: a corpse standing desperately upright Yoneyama Kunio Studying Neue Tanz The drug of Ohno Tokyo New namesDancing life: Ohno Kazuo Born to dance Together and apart Together again Ohno’s international stage Ohno is a bridge Butoh, community, and healing THE WORDS OF HIJIKATA AND OHNO Hijikata-speak The criminal and the fool: writing/living darkness Body as spirit: writing/speaking the butoh body Being a corpse Hijikata’s butoh-fu: what is an image? Words that dance: Ohno’s images Spiritual darkness: inside Ohno’s studio and Konpaku How Ohno prepares: words for the speech of the body The Ishikari river’s hooked-nose salmon Body as universe: Kazuo and Yoshito speak of love and care DANCES OF DEATH, SACRIFICE, AND SPIRIT Two butohists: why they dance the way they do Dance as experience: shedding the social body Challenging modernization Kinjiki (Forbidden Colors, 1959) Barairo Dansu (Rose Colored Dance, 1965) Nikutai No Hanran (Rebellion of the Body, 1968) Note on Natsu No Arashi (Summer Storm, 1973) La Argentina Sho (Admiring La Argentina, 1977) Suiren (Water Lilies, 1987) Interview with Ohno Yoshito – on Suiren The future of butoh DANCE EXPERIENCES Introduction to metamorphic explorations Nakajima Natsu: becoming nothing/ becoming something Ohno Yoshito: the patience of not starting Yoshioka Yumiko: body resonance Morita Itto and Takeuchi Mika: psychosomatics of butoh Takenouchi Atsushi’s Jinen Butoh Frances Barbe and the practice of butoh-fu Harada Nobuo: butoh is everything Waguri Yukio and Butoh-Kaden CD-Rom English glossary of terms Japanese glossary of terms
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies
Book SynopsisPhysical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research and methodological approaches. It examines the boundaries, preoccupations, theories and politics of PCS, drawing on transdisciplinary expertise from areas as diverse as sport studies, sociology, history, cultural studies, performance studies and anthropology. Featuring chapters written by world-leading scholars, this handbook examines the most important themes and issues within PCS, exploring the active body through the lens of class, age, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, (dis)ability, medicine, religion, space and culture. Each chapter provides an overview of the state of knowledge in a particular subject area, while also considering possibilities for developing future research. Representing a landmark contribution to physical cultural studies and allied fields, the RoTrade Review"A useful starting point for discussion as to the nature of current thinking in [physical cultural studies] and some indications as to where the field may go ... Summing Up: Recommended" - S. H. M. Reekie, San Jose State University, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction, Part I: Groundings, 1. Historicizing Physical Cultural Studies, 2. Power and Power Relations, 3. Theory and Reflexivity, 4. Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in PCS, 5. The Political Imperative of Feminism, 6. Praxis, Part II: Practices, 7. Therapeutic Movement / Leisure Practices, 8. Exercise and Fitness Practices, 9. Dance Practices, 10. Lifestyle Sporting Cultures and Practices, 11. (High-)Performance Sport, Part III: Subjectified Bodies, 12. Classed Bodies, 13. Raced Bodies, 14. Gendered Bodies, 15. Sexualized/Sexed Bodies, 16. [Dis]Abled Bodies, 17. Young Bodies, 18. Ageing Bodies, Part IV: Institutionalized Bodies, 19. Medicalised and Scientized Bodies, 20. Digital Bodies, 21. Spiritualized and Religious Bodies, 22. Aestheticized Bodies, 23. Fat Bodies, 24. Mediated and Commodified Bodies, 25. Spectacular and Eroticized Bodies, 26. Punished Corporal Bodies, Part V: Experiential Bodies, 27. Injured, Pained and Disrupted Bodies, 28. Risky/Risking Bodies, 29. Invisible (Women’s) Bodies, 30. Affective and Pleasured Bodies, 31. Mobile Bodies, 32. Pregnant Bodies, Part VI: Spaces, 33. "Natural", Intimate and Sensory Landscapes, 34. Physical Cultural Studies, Sport and the Environment, 35. Urban and Securitised Spaces, 36. Healthified Spaces, 37. Affective Cities, 38. Exercise and Fitness Spaces, 39. Sport, Migration and Space, Part VII: Contexts and Sites of Embodied Practice, 40. Mind/Body Relations, 41. Community and Physical Culture, 42. Physical Education, Policy and Embodied Pedagogies 43. International Development and Policy, 44. Global Mega-Events, Policy and Legacy, 45. Digital Mediation, Connectivity and Affective Materialities, Part VIII: Methodological Contingencies, 46. Critical Discourse Analysis, 47. Texts / Representation, 48. Ethnographic Approaches, 49. People in Contexts, 50. Narrative Inquiry and Autoethnography, 51. Poetry, Poiesis and Physical Culture, 52. Sensory, Digital and Visual Methodologies, 53. Digital Media Methodologies, Part IX: Politics and Praxis, 54. Physical Cultural Studies and Public Pedagogies, 55. Critical Corporeal Curricula, Praxis and Change, 56. Sport, Development, and Social Change, 57. Corporate Social Responsibility, 58. Embodiment and Reflexive Body Politics, Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Singularities
Book SynopsisHow does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of performance' in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, examining this relationship through five singularities' in contemporary dance: thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity.Exploring the works of Mette Ingvartsen, Yvonne Rainer, Ralph Lemon, Jérôme Bel and others, Lepecki uses his concept of singularity'the resistance of categorization and aesthetic identificationto examine the function of dance and performance in political and artistic debate.Trade ReviewSingularities is a sparkling work of dance theory that reads like an urgent and prescient call to action.Sima Belmar - The Drama ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Dance and the age of neoliberal performance Chapter 1: Moving as Some Thing (or, Some things want to run)Chapter 2: In the Dark Chapter 3: Limitrophies of the Human: monstrous nature, thingly life, and the wild animalChapter 4: The Body as Archive: will to reenact and the afterlives of dances Chapter 5: Choreographic Angelology: the dancer as worker of history (or, Remembering is a hard thing)Chapter 6: Afterthought: Four notes on witnessing performance in the age of neoliberal dis-experience
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Strange Proximity
Book SynopsisWhat happens in the relationship between audience and performer? Whatchoices are made in the space of performance about how we attend toothers?A Strange Proximity examines stage presence as key to thinking aboutperformance and ethics. It is the first phenomenological account of ethicsgenerated from, rather than applied to, contemporary theatrical productions.The ethical possibilities of the stage, argues Jon Foley Sherman, rest notso much in its objectsthe performers and the show itselfas in the howof attending to others. A Strange Proximity is a unique perspective on theimplications of attention in performance.Trade Review"A powerful meditation on performance, attention, and the ethical claims inherent in both. Foley Sherman, who wears the mantle scholar-performer as well as anyone, is a master at navigating the difficult terrains of performance theory, phenomenology, and the work of philosophers such as Jacques Rancière. His insights into how we attend to others and why this matters to performance are provocative and deeply original. As a study of theater’s elusive "presence" and all that comprises it, this book stands with the best work in contemporary performance analysis. As a demonstration of how phenomenology can illuminate theater’s 'strange proximities,' it is unrivaled." Stanton B. Garner, Jr., University of Tennessee"Jon Foley Sherman's book is not only a must-read for any scholar interested in a rich and provocative approach to the poetics of perception, but also a necessary book for any practitioner in the field of theatre who is willing to question the deepest roots of his or her existence as an artist and as a human being." Thomas Prattki, Founder and Director, London International School of Performing Arts"An illuminating and rigorous exploration of how a phenomenology inspired in equal measure by the writing of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the teaching of Jacques Lecoq might offer a description of the practice of theatre as a paradigmatic mode of social perception. The ethics of attention Foley Sherman elaborates here invites us to enrich our experience of theatre by attending to how it unfolds between us as a source of both trouble and wonder. It is a thoughtful, personal, and original contribution to performance philosophy." Nicholas Ridout, Professor of Theatre, Department of Drama, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsPreface1. May I Have Your Attention2. Mimicry and the Urgency of Differences3. A Unique Phenomenon of Distance4. Disorienting5. The Ground of Ethical Failure
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Amsterdam University Press The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
Book SynopsisThe Last Great American Picture Show brings together essays by scholars and writers who chart the changing evaluations of the American cinema of the 1970s, sometimes referred to as the decade of the lost generation, but now more and more recognized as the first New Hollywood, without which the cinema of Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino could not have come into existence.Identified with directors such as Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, Peter Bogdanovich, Monte Hellman, Bob Rafelson, Hal Ashby, Robert Altman and James Toback, American cinema of the 1970s is long overdue for this re-evaluation. Many of the films have not only come back from oblivion, as the benchmark for new directorial talents. They have also become cult films in the video shops and the classics of film courses all over the world.Table of ContentsTable of Contents - 6 Part One Introductions - 8 The Impure Cinema: New Hollywood 1967-1976 - 10 ”The Last Good Time We Ever Had”: Remembering the New Hollywood Cinema - 20 American Auteur Cinema: The Last – or First – Great Picture Show - 38 Part Two Histories - 72 The Decade When Movies Mattered - 74 A Walking Contradiction (Partly Truth and Partly Fiction) - 84 The Exploitation Generation. or: How Marginal Movies Came in from the Cold - 108 New Hollywood and the Sixties Melting Pot - 132 Part Three People and Places - 154 Dinosaurs in the Age of the Cinemobile - 156 ”The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman - 166 Nashville contra Jaws, or “The Imagination of Disaster” Revisited - 196 For Wanda - 224 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: The Uneasy Ride of Hollywood and Rock - 250 Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick’s War Movie - 268 Part Four Critical Debates - 278 The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero [1975] - 280 Trapped in the Affection Image: Hollywood’s Post-traumatic Cycle (1970-1976) - 294 Grim Fascination: Fingers, James Toback and 1970s American Cinema - 310 Allegories of Post-Fordism in 1970s New Hollywood: Countercultural Combat Films, Conspiracy Thrillers as Genre Recycling - 334 Bibliography - 360 List of Contributors - 372 Pictures (with credits) - 376 Index of Film Titles - 378
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Cambridge University Press Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV Le Mariage De La Grosse Cathos Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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Cambridge University Press A Critical History of Modern Irish Drama 1891 1980
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Cambridge University Press Sources of Dramatic Theory
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Cambridge University Press Sources of Dramatic Theory
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre of Robert Wilson Directors in Perspective
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Dance in NineteenthCentury Britain Jane Austen to the New Woman 63 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 63
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ballet Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Congressional Theatre Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage Film and Television 11 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ballet Cambridge Companions to Music
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Cambridge University Press Congressional Theatre Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage Film and Television 11 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Naples Capital of Dance
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Cambridge University Press Haydns Minuets and EighteenthCentury Dance
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Cambridge University Press Musicology and Dance
Book SynopsisLong treated as peripheral to music history, dance has become prominent within musicological research, as a prime and popular subject for an increasing number of books, articles, conference papers and special symposiums. Despite this growing interest, there remains no thorough-going critical examination of the ways in which musicologists might engage with dance, thinking not only about specific repertoires or genres, but about fundamental commonalities between the two, including embodiment, agency, subjectivity and consciousness. This volume begins to fill this gap. Ten chapters illustrate a range of conceptual, historical and interpretive approaches that advance the interdisciplinary study of music and dance. This methodological eclecticism is a defining feature of the volume, integrating insights from critical theory, film and cultural studies, the visual arts, phenomenology, cultural anthropology and literary criticism into the study of music and dance.Trade Review'An engaging, erudite, and brilliantly edited collection of important essays on music and dance. Here the producers and process of art are valued as much as the product. While honoring the embodied knowledge of dancers themselves and respecting the all too human aspects of dance, the authors also, in complementary ways, address the sublime – the beauty beyond our mortal ken.' Simon Morrison, Princeton University, New Jersey'This refreshing and thoughtful book contributes to the body of research that has been synthesizing dance and music for more than 30 years … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' A. E. Handfield, Choice'Dance has proved an increasingly rich site of musicological study since the 1980s, and a new collected volume edited by Davinia Caddy and Maribeth Clark from Cambridge University Press makes a valuable contribution to that growing body of literature … Scholars in this interdisciplinary space will welcome a work brimming with the diversity of conceptual, historical, and interpretative approaches that this text provides.' Lena Leson, Revue de musicologie'The glimpses of live performance directly referenced in Musicology and Dance are not only informative but, dare it be said, entertaining too … [The book] offers many fresh insights into relationships between dance and music.' Jeremy Barlow, Dance ChronicleTable of ContentsIntroduction Davinia Caddy and Maribeth Clark; Part I. Conceptual Studies: 1. J. S. Bach and the dance of humankind John Butt; 2. Dance as 'other': contrasting modes of musical representation Suzanne Aspden; 3. Thinking on our feet: a somatic enquiry into a Haydn minuet Joseph Fort; 4. Making moves in reception studies: music, listening and Loie Fuller Davinia Caddy; Part II. Case Histories: 5. The 'splendid and shameful art': dancing in and around the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk Thomas Grey; 6. Hymnody, dance and the sacred in the illustrated song Marian Wilson Kimber; 7. Pavanes and passepieds in the age of the cancan Carlo Caballero; Part III: Critical Readings: 8. Nijinsky, modernism, repression: the Faune ballet – once again – under analysis David J. Code; 9. Choreographing Mahler songs at the centenary Wayne Heisler, Jr; 10. Embodied heritage: English country dance in Austen screen adaptations Maribeth Clark.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Radio City Spectacular
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Make Good Art
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Harper Business Spellbound
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Everybody Has a Podcast Except You
Book SynopsisFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling McElroy Brothers, creators of the hit podcasts My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Adventure Zone, comes a helpful and hilarious how-to podcast guide covering everything you need to know to make, produce, edit, and promote a podcast…and get rich* doing it! (*Results not guaranteed.)Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy made their names as “advice giving brothers who have no business giving advice” (New York Times) on the hit podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me. But while they may not have the best relationship or workplace advice, they certainly make you laugh, and they do know a thing or two about podcasting. In fact, the McElroy Brothers have spent the last decade making podcasts, including My Brother, My Brother and Me; The Adventure Zone; Sawbones; and more. From their start, independently producing and releasing the early episodes of My Brother, My Brother and Me, to their eleven currently available podcasts, the McElroys have become experts in creating successful podcasts. And now, they want to share what they’ve learned with you. In Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You), the McElroy Brothers will walk you through the process of turning an idea into ear-candy for legions of fans, sharing their expertise on everything from deciding on an effective name (definitely not something like My Brother, My Brother and Me), what type of microphone to use (definitely not one from the video game Rock Band), to making lots and lots of money (spoiler: you probably won’t). A must-read for anyone interested in podcasting, Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You) shares the keys to success as well as the mistakes to avoid and draws on the vast experiences of three of the funniest and most successful podcasters working today.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc We Promised You a Great Main Event
Book SynopsisTrade Review“We Promised You a Great Main Event is a fascinating dive into the physical art of modern-day wrestling entertainment and the unbelievable characters who make it work in the ring and the back, and a curiously heartwarming indictment of what neglects we allow in the name of entertainment. Highly recommended for both wrestling and non-wrestling fans alike.” — Chris Kluwe "Bill Hanstock loves wrestling more than most people love their families, even though he knows how silly it can be. That's exactly the kind of voice you want writing a comprehensive history of the sport, and he nails it, from the early days of the McMahon empire to its future. This is an impressive tome that's required reading for wrestling fans." — Grant Brisbee, The Athletic "A welcome WWE history that takes us from the very beginning all the way to the new challengers of AEW, streaming wrestling, and COVID-19, Hanstock's (at times personal) history never loses its love for the legend, commitment to the backstory, well-earned heartbreak, and sense of the moral, the metatextual, and the absurd that—to varying degrees—always lie at the heart of loving the squared circle." — Jeb Lund, former columnist, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Gawker, OOWrestling "Bill Hanstock's We Promised You A Great Main Event looks at the complete WWE story with heartfelt nostalgia while still managing to be incisive and deeply analytical about the world of professional wrestling....This may be an "unauthorized" history but it's definitive nevertheless." — David Dennis Jr., Morehouse Journalism Professor and writer "This book is a ticket to the ridiculous, uniquely American history of WWE, and Bill Hanstock (the funny smart friend who brought you to the show) keeps up a non-stop stream of fascinating, often hilarious, sometimes disturbing backstory as an endless parade of larger-than-life characters charge into the ring." — DC Pierson, author, The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep And Never Had To
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The University of Chicago Press American Allegory Lindy Hop and the Racial
Book SynopsisSituates dance within a larger Chicago landscape of segregated social practices. Delving into two Chicago dance worlds, lindy hop and steppin', the author uses a combination of participant observation and interviews to bring to the surface the racial tension that surrounds white use of black cultural forms.Trade Review"In American Allegory, Black Hawk Hancock has written a rich and intricately detailed ethnography of the distinct worlds of lindy hop and steppin'. Here, readers are offered a guide to the ways in which cultural expressions have come to occupy separate racial and spatial realms and how this apparent segregation of race, culture, and identity is practiced in the United States today." (Andrew Deener, author of Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles)"
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University of Chicago Press Yor249b225 B224t225 Goes Global Artists Culture
Book SynopsisResponding to growing international interest in Yoruba culture, practitioners of bata performance - a drumming, dancing, and singing tradition - have presented themselves to the world as an emblem of traditional Nigeria. This work describes the dramatic changes and reinventions of traditional bata performance.
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The University of Chicago Press Shaping Society Through Dance Mestizo Ritual
Book SynopsisDuring the patron saint fiesta in the Andean town of San Jeronimo, Peru, crowds gather at sunset in the town square, eagerly awaiting the entrance of the colorful dance troupes, or comparsas. Offering a look at a tradition, this title is a compelling example of the anthropology of performance.
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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 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
£25.53
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"
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Reading Dance
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Water Framework Directive
Book Synopsis Deals with new EC legislation the Water Framework Directive; the main driver within Europe for groundwater monitoring which addresses integrated water resource management across 27 different countries Provides comprehensive approach and guidance on the theoretical and practical aspects for implementing the directive Edited by EC representatives involved in the setting up of the framework, along with colleagues in various water institutions who have the task of implementing the legislation Part of the Water Quality Measurement Series Table of ContentsSeries Preface ix Preface xi List of Contributors xiii SECTION 1 GENERAL WFD MONITORING FEATURES 1 1.1 Water Status Monitoring under the WFD 3 Philippe Quevauviller 1.2 Chemical Monitoring of Surface Waters 11 Peter Lepom and Georg Hanke 1.3 The Monitoring of Ecological Status of European Freshwaters 29 Angelo G. Solimini, Ana Cristina Cardoso, Jacob Carstensen, Gary Free, Anna-Stiina Heiskanen, Niels Jepsen, Peeter Noges, Sandra Poikane and Wouter van de Bund SECTION 2 CASE STUDIES ON MONITORING DIFFERENT AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS UNDER THE WFD 61 2.1 Lake Monitoring in Sweden 63 Hakan Marklund 2.2 River Monitoring 77 Elena Perez Gallego 2.3 Groundwater Monitoring: Implementation in Two Member States 87 Rob Ward, Johannes Grath and Andreas Scheidleder 2.4 Coastal and Marine Monitoring 103 Patrick Roose SECTION 3 ANALYTICAL TOOLS IN SUPPORT OF WFD MONITORING 131 3.1 Emerging Methods for Water Monitoring in the Context of the WFD 133 Richard Greenwood and Graham A. Mills 3.2 Diagnostic Water Quality Instruments for Use in the European Water Framework Directive 153 J.L. Maas, C.A. Schipper, R.A.E. Knoben, M.J. van den Heuvel-Greve, P.J. den Besten and P.G-J. de Maagd SECTION 4 MODELLING TOOLS IN SUPPORT OF WFD MONITORING 163 4.1 Joint Modelling and Monitoring of Aquatic Ecosystems 165 J.C. Refsgaard, L.F. Jorgensen, A.L. Hojberg, C. Demetriou, G. Onorati and G. Brandt 4.2 Integrated River Basin Management: Harmonised Modelling Tools and Decision-making Process 181 Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz and Fred F. Hattermann SECTION 5 HYDROGEOLOGICAL COMPONENTS AND GROUNDWATER STATUS 195 5.1 Groundwater Quality Monitoring: The Overriding Importance of Hydrogeologic Typology (and Need for 4D Thinking) 197 Didier Pennequin and Stephen Foster 5.2 Contribution of Hydrogeological Mapping to Water Monitoring Programmes 215 Wilhelm F. Struckmeier 5.3 Establishing Environmental Groundwater Quality Standards 229 Dietmar Muller SECTION 6 SEDIMENT MONITORING 241 6.1 Sediment Dynamics and their Influence on the Design of Monitoring Programmes 243 Sue White 6.2 Monitoring Sediment Quality Using Toxicity Tests as Primary Tools for any Risk Assessment 255 Wolfgang Ahlf, Ute Feiler, Peter Heininger and Susanne Heise SECTION 7 RISK ASSESSMENT LINKED TO MONITORING 271 7.1 River Basin Risk Assessment Linked to Monitoring and Management 273 Jos Brils, Damia Barcelo, Winfried E.H. Blum, Werner Brack, Bob Harris, Dietmar Muller, Philippe Negrel, Vala Ragnarsdottir, Wim Salomons, Thomas Track and Joop Vegter 7.2 Emerging Contaminants in the Water-sediment System: Case Studies of Pharmaceuticals and Brominated Flame Retardants in the Ebro River Basin 287 Mira Petrovic, Ethel Eljarrat, Meritxell Gros, Agustina de la Cal and Damia Barcelo 7.3 Assessment of Metal Bioavailability and Natural Background Levels – WFD Monitoring from the Perspective of Metals Industry 299 Patrick Van Sprang, Katrien Delbeke, Lidia Regoli, Hugo Waeterschoot, Frank Van Assche, William Adams, Delphine Haesaerts, Claire Mattelet, Andy Bush, Lynette Chung and Violaine Verougstraete 7.4 Freshwater Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change: the Euro-limpacs Project 313 Richard W. Battarbee, Martin Kernan, David M. Livingstone, Uli Nickus, Piet Verdonschot, Daniel Hering, Brian Moss, Richard F. Wright, Chris D. Evans, Joan O. Grimalt, Richard K. Johnson, Edward Maltby, Conor Linstead and Richard A. Skeffington SECTION 8 ENSURING DATA QUALITY 355 8.1 NORMAN – Network of Reference Laboratories for Monitoring of Emerging Substances 357 Jaroslav Slobodnik and Valeria Dulio 8.2 Data Quality Assurance of Sediment Monitoring 371 Ulrich Forstner, Susanne Heise, Wolfgang Ahlf and Bernard Westrich SECTION 9 REPORTING REQUIREMENTS 387 9.1 Reporting Requirements for Priority Substances 389 Valeria Dulio and Anne Morin SECTION 10 CONCLUSIONS 409 10.1 Needs for an Operational Science–Policy Mechanism in Support of WFD Monitoring – National and Regional Examples 411 Philippe Quevauviller, Bob Harris and Philippe Vervier 10.2 Support for WFD Research Needs: Current Activities and Future Perspectives in the Context of RTD Framework Programmes 445 Andrea Tilche Index 459
£216.55
The University of Michigan Press The Sixties Center Stage
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Sixties, Center Stage expands our vision of this critical decade, reminding experimental-theater partisans that Broadway, established Off Broadway, high-profile festivals, and the nascent regional theater were sites of equally challenging innovation. Even more important, Harding and Rosenthal aim to dismantle the boundary between the mainstream and the fringe—to demonstrate that there was far easier exchange of ideas, preoccupations, and methods between the two camps than we usually acknowledge."" - Marc Robinson, Yale University""The editors successfully tackle the dichotomy that has long existed in the scholarly literature about American theater during the turbulent 1960s. Well-written, readable, entertaining, well-organized, and convincing, this book inspires readers to continue their search for ways in which false dichotomies can be exploded in other writings."" - Elizabeth L. Wollman, Baruch College
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Showing Off Showing Up
Book SynopsisExamines acts of showing, a particular species of performance that relies on competition and judgment, active spectatorship, embodied excess, and exposure of core values and hidden truths. The book's theoretical introduction and essays reveal how diverse, particularly efficacious genres of showing are theoretically connected and why they merit more concerted attention.Trade ReviewFrom top to bottom, the pieces of Showing Off, Showing Up are compelling, well-researched, and stand at the forefront of performance studies scholarship and hold the potential to move the field forward in very significant ways. It will find an appreciative audience with scholars and students in the field."" - Jonathan Chambers, Bowling Green State University
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press I Want to Be Ready
Book SynopsisPresents a conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America. This book also offers an understanding of the 'freedom' of improvisational dance. It is suitable for those interested in dance history and criticism, and for interdisciplinary audiences in the fields of American and cultural studies.Trade Review"This book will become the single most important reflection on the question of improvisation, a question which has become foundational to dance itself. The achievement of I Want to Be Ready lies not simply in its mastery of the relevant literature within dance, but in its capacity to engage dance in a deep and abiding dialogue with other expressive forms, to think improvisation through myriad sites and a rich vein of cultural diversity, and to join improvisation in dance with its manifestations in life so as to consider what constitutes dance's own politics." - Randy Martin, Tisch School of Arts at New York University"
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press The Sixties Center Stage
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Sixties, Center Stage expands our vision of this critical decade, reminding experimental-theater partisans that Broadway, established Off Broadway, high-profile festivals, and the nascent regional theater were sites of equally challenging innovation. Even more important, Harding and Rosenthal aim to dismantle the boundary between the mainstream and the fringe—to demonstrate that there was far easier exchange of ideas, preoccupations, and methods between the two camps than we usually acknowledge."" - Marc Robinson, Yale University""The editors successfully tackle the dichotomy that has long existed in the scholarly literature about American theater during the turbulent 1960s. Well-written, readable, entertaining, well-organized, and convincing, this book inspires readers to continue their search for ways in which false dichotomies can be exploded in other writings."" - Elizabeth L. Wollman, Baruch College
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Showing Off Showing Up
Book SynopsisExamines acts of showing, a particular species of performance that relies on competition and judgment, active spectatorship, embodied excess, and exposure of core values and hidden truths. The book's theoretical introduction and essays reveal how diverse, particularly efficacious genres of showing are theoretically connected and why they merit more concerted attention.Trade ReviewFrom top to bottom, the pieces of Showing Off, Showing Up are compelling, well-researched, and stand at the forefront of performance studies scholarship and hold the potential to move the field forward in very significant ways. It will find an appreciative audience with scholars and students in the field."" - Jonathan Chambers, Bowling Green State University
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Rebel Dance Renegade Stance
Book SynopsisUmi A. Vaughan reveals a rarely discussed perspective on contemporary Cuban society during the 1990s, the peak decade of timba, and beyond, as the Cuban leadership transferred from Fidel Castro to his brother. Simultaneously, the book reveals popular dance music in the context of a young and astutely educated Cuban generation of fierce and creative performers.
£999.99
OMNIBUS PRESS Kris Kristofferson Guitar Collection
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£22.09
Hal Leonard Corporation Olympic Dances For Wind Ensemble
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£19.12
OMNIBUS PRESS Play Alto Sax Today Beginners Pack BookOnline
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£19.54
Random House USA Inc Wilderness The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison 001
Book SynopsisCompiled from the literary estate of the singer who brought a wildly lyrical poetry of the damned to the world of rock 'n' roll. Includes unpublished poems, drawings, photos, and a candid self-interview.
£15.30
ALFRED PUBLISHING CO.(UK)LTD Brandi Carlile The Songbook GuitarLyricsChords
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£16.95
