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Book SynopsisA Singing Approach to Horn Playing is author Natalie Douglass Grana's guide to the intricacies of horn-playing and the development of aural skills essential to beginner and intermediate musicians.Trade ReviewThis beautifully formulated book, specifically designed with the horn player in mind, is a training manual for fine-tuning your inner ear, tightening your rhythm, and improving your pitching skills—all elements in which every horn player should excel. Through a series of specially developed exercises using solfège, singing, harmony, and pulse, Dr. Douglass Grana gives you all the materials you'll need to develop the skills absolutely fundamental to any aspiring musician. With the incorporation of many examples taken from the standard horn repertoire, this book should be on the shelf of every horn studio. * Frank Lloyd, Professor for Horn, Folkwang University of Arts in Essen, Germany, renowned soloist and chamber player *This book is incredible! I have opera singers for parents and wife, so I've benefitted from a LOT of vocal influences in my life. This book bridges the gap between brass playing and singing in simple, compelling, and wonderfully incremental ways. Dr. Douglass Grana has used the Concone vocal exercises and more to open us brass players up to our deeply creative and wildly freeing connection to singing. * Jeff Nelsen, Hornist, Canadian Brass; Professor of Horn, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music *Quite simply: In my experience I have never heard a single successful hornist who could not also sing in time and in tune. Singing is a fundamental building block, indeed the necessary DNA, not only for the healthy development of the ear but also for technique, and most importantly for the growth of essential musical language ability. As such Dr. Douglass Grana's very welcome book goes a long way to fill what has long been a gaping hole in much horn pedagogy. Indeed, the positive ramifications of her work will surely resonate with students and teachers of all instruments. Highly recommended. * Fergus McWilliam, Hornist, Berlin Philharmonic; author, Blow Your OWN Horn *Table of ContentsReviews Acknowledgements Introduction Song and Exercises by Tone Set Canons, Solfeggi, and Horn Literature Advanced Horn Literature Further Study Song Sources

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Book SynopsisEffortless humour and bucketloads of charm. It''s impossible not to be bowled over by the ending. Most definitely my favourite celebrity memoir in a long time. Brilliant. - The SunThe **Sunday Times bestselling** memoir from the star of I''m a Celebrity and Extra Camp As a 17-year-old virgin working . . . for Virgin, Joel Dommett has grand ambitions. Firstly, he is going to swap suburbia for the bright lights of Showbiz. Secondly, he is going to find ''the one'' - and sets himself the very achievable target of finding her in the first fifty people he''s definitely going to sleep with. What follows is a series of disastrous romantic encounters, including carpets mistaken for toilets, futile grand gestures and the catfishing to end all catfishing. Featuring genuine teenage diary entries and told in Joel''s trademark self-deprecating style, this is the brilliant first book from the UK''s most exciting comedian.Trade ReviewEffortless humour and bucketloads of charm. It's impossible not to be bowled over by the ending. Most definitely my favourite celebrity memoir in a long time. Brilliant. - The Sun

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Book Synopsis“Jo Weldon is the gold-standard for New Burlesque. I am proud to call her my friend, and unashamed to admit she’s my idol.” — Lily Burana, author of Strip City: A Stripper''s Farewell Journey Across America From one of the stars of the New Burlesque scene, Jo Weldon, comes a definitive, easy-to-use, and indispensable guide to the art form, with a foreword by superstar comedian and burlesque enthusiast Margaret Cho. Fans of Dita Von Teese—as well as performers of every stripe—will love the helpful advice and feisty attitude of The Burlesque Handbook.Trade Review"Jo Weldon is the gold-standard for New Burlesque. A learned burly-q historian, a skilled and gracious teacher, and a breathtaking, world-class performer, she's everything you could want in a shimmy queen. I am proud to call her my friend, and unashamed to admit she's my idol." -- Lily Burana, author of Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America and head bombshell of Operation Bombshell: The Burlesque School for Military Wives "That's Jo Weldon - and she's perfect!" -- Leighton Meester, star of Gossip Girl "Jo is one of the true champions of the burlesque world...Hearing her speak, seeing her teach, and marveling at the way she has been the driving force behind successful events is a real pleasure for me!" -- Catherine D'Lish, Two-Time Miss Exotic World, Creative Director for Dita Von Teese "When you need an academic diatribe about the importance of burlesque in a gorgeous package served with sex appeal, intelligence and love, that's Jo! This woman is passionate about burlesque and can recreate the sex appeal of the genre lost long ago." -- Dirty Martini, Muse to Karl Lagerfeld, Voted #1 Burlesque Performer in the World 2010 "When Jo performed at Exotic World, I'd never been so mesmerized by a woman sitting on a chair. That's the mark of a true performance!" -- Immodesty Blaize, Miss Exotic World 2007 and the UK's Premier Burlesque Performer "Jo is not only one of the most classically elegant dancers ever to grace the Slipper Room Stage, but in my humble opinion, she is also one of the sexiest performers I've ever known." -- James Habacker, Artistic Director, The Slipper Room NYC "Why she's willing to make the secrets of her fantastic skills available to the public is beyond me, but if I were you, I'd buy this book quick, before she changes her mind." -- Jonny Porkpie, author of The Corpse Wore Pasties, creator of Pinchbottom Burlesque

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Book SynopsisFeatures more than 100 performance artists' interviews that highlight complex issues in performance art, including the role of identity in performer-audience relationships and art as an exploration of everyday conventions rather than a demonstration of virtuosity.Table of ContentsPreface by Linda M. Montano Introduction: Shall We Talk? Linda M. Montano Performs Autobiographical Voices, by Angelika Festa PART ONE sex Introduction by Christine Tamblyn Vito Acconci Philip Corner Paul Cotton Karen Finley Vanalyne Green Lynn Hershman Dick Higgins Laurel Klick Steven Kolpan Jill Kroesen Robert Kushner Minnette Lehmann Lydia Lunch Paul McCarthy Tim Miller Frank Moore and Linda Mac Vernita Nemec Pat Oleszko Carolee Schneemann Barbara Smith Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera Hannah Wilke PART TWO food Introduction by Moira Roth Jerri Allyn Nancy Barber John Cage Angelika Festa Howard Fried Joan Jonas Alison Knowles Leslie Labowitz Suzanne Lacy Les Levine Antoni Miralda Susan Mogul Faith Ringgold Rachel Rosenthal Martha Rosler Richard Schechner Bonnie Sherk Stuart Sherman Anne Tardos and Jackson Mac Low PART THREE money/fame Introduction by Laura Cottingham Eleanor Antin Robert Ashley Bob and Bob Eric Bogosian Nancy Buchanan Linda Frye Burnham Papo Colo Lowell Darling Steven Durland Simone Forti Mel Henderson Julia Heyward Mikhail Horowitz Allan Kaprow Tom Marioni Meredith Monk Jim Pomeroy Willoughby Sharp Michael Smith Martin Von Haselberg Martha Wilson PART FOUR ritual/death Introduction by Lucy R. Lippard Marina Abramovicˇ and Ulay Helene Aylon Chris Burden John Cage Ping Chong George Coates Betsy Damon Terry Fox Cheri Gaulke Alex Grey Deborah Hay Geoffrey Hendricks Donna Henes Kim Jones Alistair MacLennan Ann Magnuson Ruth Maleczech Paul McMahon Ana Mendieta Hermann Nitsch Lorraine O’Grady Morgan O’Hara Pauline Oliveros Adrian Piper Jerome Rothenberg Brian Routh Robert Schuler Theodora Skipitares Stelarc Elaine Summers Fiona Templeton Mierle Laderman Ukeles William Wegman Paul Zaloom Ellen Zweig Afterword: Quicksilver and Revelations: Performance Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, by Kristine Stiles Biographies Index

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Book SynopsisMcNamara explores the world of the American concert saloon, establishments offering theatrical shows, alcohol, and sometimes gambling and prostitution. McNamara focuses on the period from the Civil War to the early twentieth century and examines sources of the shows, performing spaces and equipment, as well as employees and patrons.Trade Review' … full of interest …' The StageTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue: sources of the concert saloon and its shows; 1. Where the devil's work is done: New York City concert saloons during the Civil War era; 2. Changes in direction: the concert saloon after the war; 3. Concert-saloon acts; 4. Concert saloons: spaces and equipment; 5. Employees and patrons of the concert saloon; 6. Related forms; Epilogue; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhen Streisand, Redford, Vereen, Tomlin, Midler, and Hoffman got their first breaks Michael Shurtleff was there.Michael Shurtleff has been casting director for Broadway shows like Chicago and Becket and for films like The Graduate and Jesus Christ Superstar. His legendary course on auditioning has launched hundreds of successful careers. Now in this book he tells the all-important how for all aspiring actors, from the beginning student of acting to the proven talent trying out for that chance-in-a-million role!Twelve guideposts for actors plus:Style • Pace • Over-Acting • Distractions • Risks • Drama • Musical Theater • Comedy • Self-Rescue • Seduction • Eye Contact. . . And more!

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Book SynopsisThe authoritative edition of Julius Caesar from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. Shakespeare’s play keeps this debate alive. This edition includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a m

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Book SynopsisHe adored me. I''d never had it before, and I''ll never have it again. I was lucky to have it at all. - LAUREN BACALL Ever since nineteen-year-old Lauren Bacall seductively taught Humphrey Bogart how to whistle in the most famous scene from 1941''s To Have and Have Not , fans have been fascinated by the palpable heat between these two movie legends. Their onscreen passion blossomed into a full-blown off-screen love affair, and culminated in a blissful marriage that lasted twelve years, until Bogart''s untimely death in 1957. Bogie & Bacall celebrates their love, with rare photos of the couple, along with tips and anecdotes that will inspire you to ignite your own legendary romance.

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Book SynopsisWith wry humour, Shakespearean profundity and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of the famous Siamese twins.Trade Review"In the follow-up to his Edgar Award-winning Charlie Chan biography, Huang uncovers ironies, paradoxes and examples of how Chang and Eng subverted what Leslie Fiedler called ‘the tyranny of the normal." -- Jane Ciabattari, BBC"It is a fascinating story..." -- Literary Review"Yunte Huang’s book Inseparable tells [a] remarkable story." -- The Times"After retiring in a small North Carolina town, they owned as many as 32 slaves and, between them, fathered at least 21 children. If that doesn't intrigue you—wait, how can that not intrigue you?" -- The 50 Best Books of 2018 - Newsweek"Yunte Huang is well placed to retell this extraordinary story of transnational celebrity and assimilation. Huang grew up in China... his Asian American focus is fresh and welcome." -- Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisOn the night of Sunday, April 23, 1961 Judy Garland made history. That's no hyperbole. Surrounded by a throng of ecstatic fans (3,165 to be exact), the legendary performer delivered a concert in Carnegie Hall the live recording of which became, upon release, an unlikely pop cultural phenomenon. Judy at Carnegie Hall, the two-disc set that captured all 25 numbers she performed that night, went on to spend more than 70 weeks on the Billboard charts, win four Grammy Awards--including Album of the Year (making it the first live music album and the first album by a female performer to win the category)--and become, in the process, the fastest-selling two-disc set in history. What the recording highlights, and what's made it an enduring classic in a class of its own, is the palpable connection between the songstress and her fans. Indeed, The New York Times reported in its review of the evening's proceedings, what actually was to have been a concert--and was--also turned into soTable of ContentsOverture Judy at Carnegie Hall Side 1 "When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)" Side 2 "The Man That Got Away" Side 3 "Stormy Weather" Side 4 "Over the Rainbow" Encore "After You’ve Gone" Encore II Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLiving in a time when it was scandalous even to show a bit of ankle, a small number of courageous women covered their bodies in tattoos and traveled the country, performing nearly nude on carnival stages. These gutsy women spun amazing stories for captivated audiences about abductions and forced tattooing at the hands of savages, but little has been shared of their real lives. Though they spawned a cultural movement—almost a quarter of Americans now have tattoos—these women have largely faded into history. The Tattooed Lady uncovers the true stories behind these women, bringing them out of the sideshow realm and into their working class realities. Combining thorough research with more than a hundred historical photos, this updated second edition explores tattoo origins, women's history, circus lore, and includes even more personal and professional details from modern tattooed ladies. A fascinating read, The Tattooed Lady pays tribute to a group of unique and amazing women whose legacy lives on.Trade ReviewThe stories here are fascinating, and Osterud connects this history well to the legacy that now lives on the skin of modern women. * BUST *Table of Contents1 Their Place in Tattoo History 2 The Tattooed Lady 3 The Day the circus Came to Town 4 Choices and Control 5 The Legacy

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Book SynopsisIndia's association with magicians goes back thousands of years. Conjurors and illusionists dazzled the courts of Hindu maharajas and Mughal emperors. As British dominion spread over the subcontinent, such wonder-workers became synonymous with India. Western magicians appropriated Indian attire, tricks and stage names; switching their turbans for top hats, Indian jugglers fought back and earned their grudging respect. This book tells the extraordinary story of how Indian magic descended from the realm of the gods to become part of daily ritual and popular entertainment across the globe. Recounting tales of levitating Brahmins, resurrections, prophesying monkeys and 'the most famous trick never performed', Empire of Enchantment vividly charts Indian magic's epic journey from street to the stage.Trade Review‘Explores the history of magic rituals in India and the way they shaped western imaginations . . . [with] a pleasing sense of humour . . . and an eye for the absurd.’ ‘A fantastic and thoroughly engaging history of Indian magic . . . bristling with . . . tales of conjurors, tricksters, illusionists, jugglers, and cunning conmen across the centuries.’ 'Fascinating.'‘Hugely entertaining . . . a vividly illuminating history of the place of magic in Indian life . . . [a] fabulous book of marvels and wonders.’'A valuable and entertaining book.'‘A strange, deeply learned but consistently entertaining salmagundi of marvels, myths and outrageous cons — a surefooted survey of a vast terrain.'‘Delightful and charming . . . Empire of Enchantment is much more than a history of Indian magic. It is an extraordinarily riveting social history of India, and of India’s encounter with the world.’'Weaving, with his own magical touch . . . an utterly fascinating history of a wonderful cultural tradition . . . Zubrzycki has it all, and his scholarship ranges far and wide. . . . a readable and fast-paced book.’'John Zubrzycki has found the most wonderful story- the sort all writers look for and long for- and told it brilliantly. This is- quite literally- a book of marvels.' -- William Dalrymple'Exceptionally well-crafted and brilliantly told, Empire of Enchantment brings alive the most enchanting tales and traditions from the history of Indian magic, packed with an extraordinary cast featuring emperors and politicians, street performers and thugs. Travelling with Zubrzycki from distant antiquity down to our own, more recent times, what this book offers is a universe of pure, unadulterated delight.' -- Shashi Tharoor

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Book SynopsisThis radical new evaluation of music making in the past and future will be essential reading for students of aesthetics, the philosophy of music, as well as musicologists and performance specialists.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I Central aspects of performance 1 A model of musical performance 2 Skills and Guilds PART II Challenges to the model 3 Performances and musical works 4 Computers, ready-mades, and artistic agency 5 Experiments with musical agency 6 Artists, programs, and performance

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Book SynopsisAlthough considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the most common forms of film and television comedy today. In order to better understand the larger cultural truths artfully woven into their deception, these works demonstrate just how tenuous and problematic our collective understandings of our social worlds can be. In Too Bold for the Box Office: The Mockumentary from Big Screen to Small, Cynthia J. Miller has assembled essays by scholars and filmmakers who examine this unique cinematic form. Individually, each of these essays looks at a given instance of mockumentary parody and subversion, examining the ways in which each calls into question our assumptions, pleasures, beliefs, and even our senses. Writing about national film, television, and new media traditions as diverse as their backgrounds, this volume's contributors explore and theorize the workings of mockumentaries, as well as the strategies and motivations of the writers and filmmakers who brought them into being. Reflections by filmmakers Kevin Brownlow (It Happened Here), Christopher Hansen (The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah), and Spencer Schaffner (The Urban Literacy Manifesto) add valued perspective and significantly deepen the discussions found in the volume's other contributions. This collection of essays on films, television programming, and new media illustrates common threads running across cultures and eras and attempts to answer sweeping existential questions about the nature of social life and the human condition.Trade ReviewIn his prologue to this volume, Jerome Kuehl introduces the Office Cat, his clever trope to suggest the role of film researcher in exposing faked, misused, or dishonestly employed footage masquerading as factual film (e.g., the BBC's Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, 1957). This historical overview provides a platform for Miller's motley crew of scholars and filmmakers to launch their brilliant, insightful, and utterly enjoyable essays on the mockumentary, that subgenre of media that parodies and subverts the often-solemn form of the documentary. The collection explores how the mockumentary functions as social commentary, offering cultural critiques with humor and transgression. Among the contributors are cinema pioneer Kevin Brownlow, who discovered that his It Happened Here had been used as actual archival footage; historian John Tibbetts, who maps out the counterfactual rewriting of history with Brownlow's dramatization of the Nazis invading London; and Linda Kornasky, who treats The Schmenges: The Last Polka, a mockumentary with its own panache. Of particular delight is filmmaker Chris Hansen's discussion of the inspiration and making of his satiric narrative American Messiah. This excellent compilation interrogates the "truthiness" of mock histories and cultural commentaries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. * CHOICE *Taking BBC Panorama’s classic Spaghetti Harvest of 1957 as a starting point, Cynthia Miller has collected a number of essays that examine the ‘mockumentary’, broadly-speaking the art of spoof documentaries. Perhaps the ones that most of us are familiar with are the ones associated with Christopher Guest, like This Is Spinal Tap & Best in Show or even The Office, but a joy of this book is that it introduces us to other titles not so familiar. * Archive Zones *The volume is a valuable compilation of writing on a genre that will only become more important as new technologies enable non-Hollywood filmmakers to make their own distinctive cinematic statements. * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PROLOGUE: Nothing New under the Sun – Or on Film (Jerome Kuehl) LOST HISTORIES Chapter 1: Making up Mammy: Re-enacting Historical Erasure and Recasting Authenticity in Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman (Eve Allegra Raimon) Chapter 2: Peter Delpeut’s The Forbidden Quest: Truth in Fiction (Robert Weiner) Chapter 3: Mercury’s on the Launch Pad, but Cadillac’s on the Moon: The Old Negro Space Program (Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper) POPULAR CULTURE AS COMMENTARY Chapter 4: Polka Settles the Score in The Schmenges: The Last Polka (Linda Kornasky) Chapter 5: Experiments in Parody and Satire: Short-Form Mockumentary Series (Craig Hight) Chapter 6: Commando Raids on the Nature of Reality (Gary D. Rhodes) DARING TO BELIEVE Chapter 7: Aching to Believe: Forgotten Silver and National Identity (Scott Wilson Chapter 8: ‘That’s Not Zen!’: Mocking Ethnographic Film in Doris Dörrie’s Enlightenment Guaranteed (Heather Merle Benbow Chapter 9: The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah (Christopher Hansen) THE WAR THAT WASN’T Chapter 10: It Might Have Happened Here: How Nazi Germany Won the War (C. Tibbetts) Chapter 11: Between What Is and What If: Kevin Willmott’s CSA (Thomas Prasch) Chapter 12: The “Serious” Mockumentary: The Trivialization of Disaster? The Case of Peter Watkins (James M. Welsh) Chapter 13: The Making of It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow) EPILOGUE: Mockumentaries Meet New Media (Spencer Schaffner) Filmography Index About the Contributors About the Editor

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Book SynopsisAn inspiring memoir and self-help guide to greatness by the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov calls “fearlessness and intelligence combined . . . potent and beautiful.”Called “the Evel Knievel of Dance,” Elizabeth Streb has been pushing boundaries and testing the potential of the human body since childhood. Can she fly? Can she run up walls? Can she break through glass? How fast can she go?With clarity and humor—and with her internationally-renowned dance troupe STREB—she continues to investigate what movement truly is and has come to these conclusions: It’s off the ground! It creates impact! And it hurts trying to stop!Here, Streb combines memoir and analysis to convey how she became an extreme action dancer and choreographer, developing a form of movement that’s more NASCAR than modern dance, more boxing than ballet, and more than most people can handle “in this dizzying, inspirational self-help” books (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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Book SynopsisFollowing his anthologies Man + Dog (2009) and Man + Doctor (2012), Nick Wadley has, with our encouragement, compiled this collection of drawings around the theme of Man + Table. Tracing origins in the childhood world of “under the table,” he enjoys an habitual freedom to follow his nose, exploring predictable and unpredictable aspects of the subject, from the commonplace to the surreal and absurd.

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Book Synopsis"This soulful collection is perfect for fans of The Moth or Humans of New York." — Publishers WeeklyPeople in San Antonio love to tell stories. Worth Repeating: San Antonio Stories is a collection of forty true tales, epic adventures, and intimate revelations from the heart of one of America’s fastest growing and most culturally diverse cities.There is the hilarious chronicle of being crowned Turkey Queen of Cuero, as well as stories of finding one’s place as an immigrant or refugee, the heartbreak of being on the AIDS epidemic’s front lines, and the redemption in writing My Little Pony fan fiction. From the birth of a Freedom Rider to the origins of a literary legend, from the search for a murdered mother’s memories to passing our abilities and disabilities along to our children, the pieces here are as varied and nuanced as the city its authors have called home at one time or another.They might not all take place in Texas, but every story has roots in its streets, suburbs, and history. Whether it’s an account of being stranded in Uganda, growing up in a Mexican border barrio, catching swine flu in Thailand, being among Harvard University’s first Black architecture students, growing up in Iran, or leaving India for a new life in Texas, each story has a soul that is puro San Antonio. From last chances to first tries, all of these personal narratives were originally performed in front of an audience at Worth Repeating, Texas Public Radio’s live storytelling series.Writers include Heather Armstrong, Tanveer Arora, Jennie Badger, Kiran Kaur Bains, Marion Barth, Sheila Black, Barbara Bowie, Norma Elia Cantú, Kelly Grey Carlisle, Cary Clack, Jess Elizarraras, Georgia Erck, Tiffany Farias-Sokoloski, Elizabeth Fauerso, Everett L. Fly, Larry Garza, Lorenzo Gomez III, Mike Knoop, David W. Lesch, Rey Lopez, Vanessa Martinez, Collin McGrath, Joaquin Muerte, Sanford Nowlin, Tori Pool, Wendy Rigby, Alex Rubio, Jonathan Ryan, Yara Samman, John Phillip Santos, Burgin Streetman, Whitley Strieber, Barbara S. Taylor, Michael Taylor, Kirsten Thompson, Clay Utley, Cristina Van Dusen, Eddie Vega, Ayon Wen-Waldron, and Bria Woods.Trade Review"This soulful collection is perfect for fans of The Moth or Humans of New York." — Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisRooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self-organization, activist practices, performance, design, and artistic research. Case studies and critical reflections from Denmark, Ireland, Finland, the UK, Canada, the USA, Chile, Asia and Australasia challenge the concept of the institution, and how we engage with it. 51 b&w illus.

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Book SynopsisHave you ever wanted to join the circus? Wondered what goes on behind the scenes? What trapeze artists think about as they swing through the air? How fit you have to be to be a performer? Reading this book lets you become an armchair acrobat. Established in 1991 as a community theatre project to work with survivors of sexual assault, the Women’s Circus has gone on to create innovative shows, toured to China in 1995 and has maintained a training program for women of all shapes and sizes, backgrounds, ages and abilities for fifteen years.Trade Review"A big, rowdy, colorful, three-ring circus of a book, packed with death-defying feats and acts that will thrill and amaze--not the least of which is their breathtaking commitment to feminist process." --Carolyn Gage, "Lesbian Review of Books"

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