The arts: general topics Books
New Village Press Performing Communities
Book SynopsisEnsemble theater is one of the vibrant, meaningful American performance forms today. It's more than art- it's a social movement. Ensemble theater is one of the hottest, most engaging American performance forms today. It's more than art- it's a movement. Performing Communities is an inquiry into a genre of theater that arises from and empowers the grassroots. The book profiles established ensemble groups from inner-city Los Angeles, small-town northern California, African-American South, multicultural southern Texas, low-income central Appalachia, economically struggling South Bronx New York, and cross-continental Native America. This compendium of critical writing about the role these theaters play in building community shows how these artist groups are forged by working in and with their communities over time. Ensemble theater is discovered to be neither alternative nor marginalized, but vanguard, a natural evolution of the movement that propelled regional theater away from the commer
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New Village Press New Creative Community
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is an impressive feat that Goldbard achieves in this book, giving the reader such an appreciation and understanding of this concept that one is left wondering why community cultural development isn't something that is an essential part of all our lives. Goldbard equates it with with universal education and the provision of emergency health care. After reading the passionate and convincing arguments laid out by Goldbard, it is hard to disagree." -- Leszek Apouchtine * re: place magazine *"Arlene Goldbard is one of those writers who not only writes about culture--she lives culture. She manages both to persuade us about her research but also convince us about the importance of community cultural development, which is why her latest book should be read not only by those interested in community cultural development but moreover by those who still need to learn and understand why is it so important." * Culturelink Network *"Goldbard gathers [remarkable stories] to show how arts projects can restore the spirit and animate the hopes of struggling communities. But more than just inspiring us, she offers a wealth of details about how this work is conceived and carried out, which is invaluable to anyone wanting to see something similar happen in their own town or neighborhood." -- Jay Walljasper * PUBLIC ART REVIEW, VOL. 19 NO. 2, ISSUE 38 *"At first glance, Alene Goldbard's book, New Creative Community--The Art of Cultural Development, seems tangential to mainstream community development, but that's far from the case as this work is based on strong values and principles... values and principles that are harmonious with community development." -- -Bernie Jones and Maryo Gard Ewell * Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society *
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New Village Press Art and Upheaval
Book SynopsisCitizen artists successfully rebuild the social infrastructure in six communities devastated by war, repression and dislocation. Author William Cleveland tells remarkable stories from Northern Ireland, Cambodia, South Africa, United States (Watts, Los Angeles), aboriginal Australia, and Serbia, about artists who resolve conflict, heal unspeakable trauma, give voice to the forgotten and disappeared, and restitch the cultural fabric of their communities. Art can be a powerful agent of personal, institutional and community change. The stories in this book have valuable implications for artists, academics, educators, human service providers, philanthropists, and community leaders throughout the world. The artists documented in the book have generated new technologies for advocacy, organizing, peacemaking, healing trauma and the rebuilding of community. Creativity is our most powerful capacity, and it can mitigate and heal our most destructive tendencies.Trade Review"For some readers, this book could be used as a how-to manual for organizing a variety of arts projects responding to crisis, but for a much broader audience, Art and Upheaval will serve to validate the importance of artists working outside artistic institutions. In Cleveland's words, these artists "… are doing this to rally or to bring order, to educate and inspire, to entertain, to heal, but most of all, to tell the story―the hidden story, the story denied." -- John Kreidler, Grantmakers in the Arts Reader: Volume 20, No. 1, Spring 2009"Each of the groups Cleveland profiles started small, but grew to provide essential safe space where communities could come together and heal. Community art offered a way forward: a chance to acknowledge and confront painful histories, to begin to resolve current conflicts, and to imagine a different kind of future." -- Brooke Jarvis, Yes! Magazine"Cleveland gets down to gritty detail by documenting the censorship, government-sponsored arson, and institutional apathy that have threatened these outposts, as well as the specific historic moments that sparked them. All told, these are success stories against the odds." -- Josie Rawson, Public Art Review"Cleveland’s writing about artists in far corners pulling together and creating moral centres for healing and political reconciliation is sometimes ponderous but couldn’t be more relevant now that we have a global leader in Barack Obama who has made community-organising the centrepiece of his presidency. It may be that we have outlived the long period of ethical (and aesthetic) neutrality in our culture, now that politics is finally catching up with art." -- Suzi Gablik, Resurgence Magazine"Art and Upheaval turns a world eager for hope and good news onto the fact that everyday around the world there are artists daring to speak truth (and beauty!) to power in ways that build understanding and reconciliation where there were previously only hardened hearts and ruin." -- David Griffith, author, A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America"Through the eloquent telling of stories of ordinary people daring to speak out, fight back and take action, Bill Cleveland shows us the most precious gift innate in all of us, the power to imagine and create. The act of creation can heal our deepest wounds and turn crisis into opportunity." -- Lily Yeh, artist and founder, Barefoot Artists and The Village of Arts and Humanities"Another insightful set of observations from a master storyteller. In his new book Cleveland deepens our sense of how human imagination and creativity sit next to upheaval in the ecology of meaning." -- Jennifer Williams, artist, founder, The Center for Creative Communities
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Paper Museum Press Ian Johnson
Book SynopsisPresents all-new paintings and drawings by Johnson in his signature style: portraits of jazz musicians from the '40s, '50s and '60s that were produced using gouache, acrylic or pen on paper or wood panel.
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Harvard Department of the Classics Selected Writings
Book SynopsisElina Tsalicoglou offers an English rendition of Konstantinos Dapontes’s idiosyncratic poem “Canon of Hymns Comprising Many Exceptional Things,” and selected passages from one of his most important works, Garden of Graces. These are accompanied by notes and a detailed introduction to the life and work of this significant Greek author.
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Yale University Press Paths to Reform Things New and Old
Book SynopsisThroughout the history of Christianity, men and women have wrestled with the challenge of how to interpret, and how to follow, the Gospels. Intrinsic to this process is the concept of "reform", a recognition that changes is necessary in order to return to a more authentic Christian life.
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Prickly Paradigm Press The Great Debate about Art
Book SynopsisReflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of 'art for art's sake'. Attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by Theophile Gautier and E M Forster, it influenced movements as diverse as futurism and Dada.
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DePaul University Art Museum Dianna Frid Richard Rezac Split Complementary
Book SynopsisDianna Frid's sculptures, installations, artist's books, and mixed media work explore the intersection of text and textile, matter and subject matter. Richard Rezac has created thought-provoking abstract object-sculptures since the 1980s. This book, the catalog for a recent exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum, brings together works by both of these Chicago-based artists. In doing so, Dianna Frid + Richard Rezac: Split Complementary shines a light on their shared sensibilities a rigorous yet poetic approach that revels in the nuances of color, surface, and material. Frid's and Rezac's works appear here accompanied by rare books from DePaul University's John T. Richardson Library and a variety of objects from the DePaul Art Museum's permanent collection. The juxtaposition of objects made by artists, craftspeople, and bookbinders generates affinities that broaden how we see and understand all of the work assembled in these pages. Complementing each other formally, these pieces offer oppor
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Fourthwall Books Fire walker William Kentridge Gerhard Marx
Book SynopsisFar more than being about a single artwork, this book participates in the myriad conversations and debates on the meaning of public art.
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IFAA Media Work of Art
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Les Enluminures, Limited Cycles of Life Rings From The Benjamin Zucker Family Collection
Book SynopsisAn unparalleled collection of rings dating from the 3rd to the 19th century, presented not chronologically but rather grouped into timeless themes - birth, love, betrothal, marriage, mourning and death - thereby achieving greater insight about the beliefs , sentiments, status, and practices of their former owners.
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Occasional Papers Daniel Bosser Philippe Thomas Declines His
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Occasional Papers Exhibition Reviews Annual 201415
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HENI Publishing Iggy Pop Life Class A Project by Jeremy Deller
Book SynopsisTwenty-one artists, from all walks of life, gathered at the New York Academy of Art on Sunday, February 21, 2016, for a special life drawing class with a guest model: American rock legend Iggy Pop. The class was organised by the Brooklyn Museum and conceived by artist Jeremy Deller.
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Metonymy Press She is Sitting in the Night
Book SynopsisA queer, contemporary guide to Thea's Tarot, a 1984 feminist tarot deck.
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Redstone Press The Book of Emotions
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Terra Foundation for the Arts,U.S. Julia Fish bound by spectrum
Book SynopsisThis exhibition catalog, Julia Fish: bound by spectrum, presents a fully-illustrated survey of the last decade of Fish's paintings and works on paper. It offers new scholarship around Fish's ongoing project that brings together the disciplines of painting, drawing, and architecture. For three decades, Fish has used her house and its vernacular architecture--a Chicago storefront workspace designed by Theodore Steuben in 1922--as the basis for a system of mapping color, form, and light in paintings and works on paper. Working from close observation, she renders architectural details at actual size and creates a dialog between objective information and subjective response. These works are informed by effects of light in space, time of day, the seasons, cardinal direction, and the artist's own physical vantage point. Accompanying the images of Fish's works are essays by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Kate Nesin, and Colm T ib n, images and text by architect Dan Wheeler, and a selection of the ar
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KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART Higher Ground
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Benton Buckley Books Equal Empowered
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LEGARE STREET PR Rendering in pen and ink Instruction Paper
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LEGARE STREET PR Lessings Laokoon
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Composing for the Screen
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of essays written by and interviews with working composers for film and television, and video games, exploring the business side of composing, addressing the lack of understanding about career development and business responsibilities as they relate to composers.Over 30 industry professionals, composers, directors, educators and business agents at all levels dispel myths about the industry and provide practical advice on topics such as how to break into the field; how to develop, nurture, and navigate business relationships; and how to do creative work under pressure. Readers will also learn about the entrepreneurial expectations in relation to marketing, strategies for contending with the emotional highs and lows of composing, and money management whilst pursuing a career in composing. Written for undergraduates and graduates studying composing, sound production, and filmmaking, as well as aspiring composers for film, TV, and gaTable of ContentsChapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Sticking It Out Chapter 3: Finding Success Chapter 4: Getting Ahead Chapter 5: Starting Again
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fedor Khitruk
Book SynopsisThis book is a first and long-awaited study of the directorial work of the animation master Fëdor Khitruk (19172012), an artist who formed in the tradition of classical cel animation only to break the conventions once he turned into a director; a liaison between artists and authorities; a personality who promoted daring films to be created in the Soviet Union dominated by socialist realism; and a teacher and supporter of young artists that continued to carry on his legacy long after the Soviet empire collapsed.Fëdor Khitruk: A Look at Soviet Animation through the Work of One Master reveals Khitruk's mastery in the art of the moving image and his critical role as a director of films that changed the look of Soviet animation and its relation to the animation world within and beyond the Eastern Bloc. Based on archival research, personal interviews, published memoirs, and perceptive analyses of Khitruk's production of films for children and adults, this studyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Preface. Introduction: Khitruk the Man and the Animator. 1 A Turning Point in the Profession: Story of a Crime (1962), Man in the Frame (1966). 2 Films for Children: Toptyzhka (1964), Bonifatius’s Vacation (1965), and Vinni Pukh (1969–72). 3 Art and Society: Othello 67 (1967) and Film, Film, Film (1968). 4 Individual and Society: The Island (1973), I’ll Give You a Star (1974), and Icarus and the Wisemen (1976). 5 In Search for Unconventional Sources: The Young Friedrich Engels (1970), A Day Before Our Era (1977), and Olympics (1982). 6 The Last Torch: The Lion and the Bull (1983). Conclusion: Khitruk – The Teacher. Films Cited. Films Directed by Fëdor Khitruk and Awards. Selected Bibliography. Appendix: Films Animated by Khitruk at Soyuzmultfilm. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Basic Conducting Techniques
Book SynopsisNow in its eighth edition, Basic Conducting Techniques provides a clear and intelligible introduction to the art of conducting an ensemble. It has been updated with a greater diversity of repertoire, including contemporary examples and more music by underrepresented composers.Over the course of 14 chapters, the authors explicate the elements of conducting, supplementing their teachings with an extensive selection of musical examples from the classical repertoire. Practical and innovative, clear and approachable, the book illuminates the essential skills that a beginning conductor should develop in order to lead and rehearse a performing group. The companion website provides scores and transposed parts for all musical excerpts, as well as guitar and piano parts, audio recordings of the excerpts, and updated demonstration videos modeling specific conducting techniques. With the beginning conductor in mind, this hands-on, competency-centered approach is appropriate for miTable of ContentsPART I: CONDUCTING TECHNIQUEChapter 1: The Baton, Preparation, Downbeat, and ReleaseChapter 2: Beat Patterns and Preparations in Tempo, Dynamic, and Basic StyleChapter 3: Preparations and Releases for All CountsChapter 4: Fractional Beat PreparationsChapter 5: Divided MetersChapter 6: Asymmetrical and Changing MetersChapter 7: The FermataChapter 8: The CueChapter 9: Conducting Musical StylesChapter 10: Expressive Conducting and the Left HandChapter 11: Tempo Changes and AccompanyingPART II: SCORE PREPARATION AND REHEARSAL TECHNIQUEChapter 12: Analysis, Score Preparation, and Conductin the Full ScoreChapter 13: The Instrumental RehearsalChapter 14: The Choral Rehearsal PART III: MUSICAL EXCERPTSChapter 1: The Baton, Preparation, Downbeat, and ReleaseChapter 2: Beat Patterns and Preparations in Tempo, Dynamic, and Basic StyleChapter 3: Preparations and Releases for All CountsChapter 4: Fractional Beat PreparationsChapter 5: Divided MetersChapter 6: Asymmetrical and Changing MetersChapter 7: The FermataChapter 8: The CueChapter 9: Conducting Musical StylesChapter 10: Expressive Conducting and the Left HandChapter 11: Tempo Changes and Accompanying Chapter 12: Analysis, Score Preperation, and Conducting the Full ScoreTECHNICAL MASTERYAppendix A: Competencies for the Beginning Conducting ClassAppendix B: Student EvaluationAppendix C: Chart of Transpositions and ClefsAppendix D: Full Score Instrumentation and Foreign EquivalentsAppendix E: Counting Drills for Uneven MetersAppendix F: Musical Style ChartAppendix G: GlossaryAppendix H: Model Video Excerpt Chart
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Anne Frank on the Postwar Dutch Stage
Book SynopsisThis book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the pivotal 1950s play that was a turning point in Holocaust consciousness. Despite its overwhelming success, criticism of the Broadway makeover has been harsh, suggesting that the alleged Americanization would not do justice to the violence of the Holocaust or Anne Frank's budding Jewishness. This study revisits these issues by focusing on the play's European appropriation delving into the emotional intensity with which the play was produced and received. The core of the exploration is a history of the Dutch staging in ethnographic detail, based on unique archival material such as correspondence with Otto Frank, prompt books, original tapes, blueprints of the set and oral history. The microhistory of the first Dutch performance of the stage adaptation of Anne Frank's diary examines the staging in the context of the poTable of Contents1. Time out of Joint: Theaters of Destruction 2. Under Erasure: From Diary to Script 3. A Holocaust Performative: From Script to Play 4. Driven by Affect: Opening Night and Beyond 5. Shibbolet: Postwar Jewishness Onstage
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Taylor & Francis Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family
Book SynopsisThis is a critical biography examining the life and work of Ernie McClintock, the founder of the Jazz Acting Method and 1997 recipient of the Living Legend Award from the National Black Theatre Festival, whose inclusive contributions to acting and actor training have largely remained on the fringes of scholarship and practice.Trade Review"In Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family: Reviving the Legacy Cizmar excavates the practices of Black Arts Movement activist and acting teacher Ernie McClintock’s ground breaking acting techniques which de-centered Stanislavski based approaches to actor training to combine African and African American experiential aesthetics with voice work centered in jazz music, yoga, karate, and African movement. Cizmar deftly explores McClintock’s "common sense" or "jazz acting" methods to illuminate his powerful social justice agenda used in many regional black theatres across the country during the Black Arts Movement and beyond. Cizmar’s beautiful book makes McClintock’s archive feel urgent and resonant in the 21st century as Black theater artists around the world ask for accountability and legibility within the mainstream theater landscape. Cizmar’s descriptive prose and archival research are coupled in a fascinating account of 20th century Black acting methods that challenged the American actor training repertoire. Cizmar’s thoughtful analysis leaves the reader asking how McClintock’s work could be erased from the history of American actor training. The book is a must read for any artist, scholar, or theater enthusiast interested in the early practices of anti-racist theater and the struggles for equity and representation of Black artists in the American theater."Nicole Hodges Persley, Associate Professor of American Studies and African and African American Studies, University of Kansas"Ernie McClintock may not be well-known to the masses of people, but he was both a larger-than-life pioneer and a living legend of the American and African American theater scene. With Ernie McClintock and the Jazz Actors Family, Dr. Elizabeth Cizmar has given us an awe-inspiring exploration not only of his life and work, but of the community Mr. McClintock built, bricks in bare hands, across generations, which would include a young Tupac Shakur. This hugely engaging book is a necessary addition to our understanding not just of theater and the arts, but of America itself during the course of Ernie McClintock’s life."Kevin Powell, author of Grocery Shopping with My Mother: PoemsTable of Contents1. Afrocentric Roots in Chicago’s Blackbelt (1937-1964) 2. Shaking Up Harlem (1965-1972) 3. Canonizing the Contemporary Black Classics (1973-1981) 4. Quaring the Black Theatre Movement (1981-1986) 5. Rebel in Richmond (1987-1993) 6. The Persistence of a Living Legend (1994-1997) 7. To See Another Day (1998-2003)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Music and Social Inclusion
Book SynopsisHow do we develop social inclusion through musical activities? What is the power of music in enhancing individual inclusion, group cohesion, and cross-community work in post-conflict environments? How can we investigate social music programmes and interventions? This comprehensive volume offers new research on these questions by an international team of experts from the fields of music education, music psychology, ethnomusicology, and community music. The book celebrates the rich diversity of ways in which learners of all ages participate in social music projects in complex settings. Contributions focus broadly on musical and social processes, considering its conceptualisation and practices in a number of contexts. The authors examine how social music projects can be fostered in complex settings, drawing examples from schools and community settings. These critical chapters will inspire readers to think deeply about social music interventions and their development. The book will
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Technology Ethics
Book SynopsisThe first of its kind, this anthology in the burgeoning field of technology ethics offers students and other interested readers 32 chapters, each written in an accessible and lively manner specifically for this volume. The chapters are conveniently organized into five parts: Perspectives on Technology and its Value Technology and the Good Life Computer and Information Technology Technology and Business Biotechnologies and the Ethics of Enhancement A hallmark of the volume is multidisciplinary contributions both (1) in analytic and continental philosophies and (2) across several hot-button topics of interest to students, including the ethics of autonomous vehicles, psychotherapeutic phone apps, and bio-enhancement of cognition and in sports. The volume editors, both teachers of technology ethics, have compiled a set of original and timely chapters that will advance scholarly debate and stimulate fascinating and lively classroom dTable of ContentsPart I: Perspectives on Technology and Its Value1. The Definition of TechnologyVal Dusek2. Value-free Technology?Joseph Pitt3. The Values Built Into TechnologiesDavid Morrow4. Technological Determinism: What It Is and Why It MattersSally Wyatt5. Heidegger’s Philosophy of TechnologyDavid Cerbone6. Postphenomenology and EthicsPeter-Paul Verbeek7. Technology and the Extended MindShaun GallagherPart II: Technology and the Good Life8. Ethical Theory and TechnologyJonathan Y. Tsou and Kate Padgett Walsh9. Disagreeing Well about TechnologyDaniel Russell10. Technology and the Virtue of HonestyChristian B. Miller11. Confucian Ethics of TechnologyQin Zhu12. Utilitarianism and Happy-People-PillsMark A. Walker13. Marxist Perspectives on TechnologyTony Smith14. Technology and Trust: A Kantian ApproachBjørn K. MyskjaPart III: Computer and Information Technology15. Values in Artificial Intelligence SystemsJustin Biddle16. A Kantian Course Correction for Machine EthicsAva Thomas Wright 17. Ethical Issues Surrounding Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Mental Health: Psychotherapy ChatbotsŞerife Tekin18. Privacy, Security, and SurveillanceAdam D. Moore19. Being-in-the-screen: Phenomenological Reflections on Contemporary ScreenhoodLucas Introna and Fernando Ilharco20. Race, Gender, and Visibility on Social MediaMegan Rim21. Fake News: There’s No App for TruthfulnessAxel GelfertPart IV: Technology in Business22. Adam Smith on the Dangers of the Digital WorldJames R. Otteson 23. Social Media Firms, Echo Chambers, and the Good LifeGregory Robson24. Data Science and Business EthicsDavid C. Rose25. Technology Firms and the Business Case for DiversityAdam Gjesdal26. Big Tech & Political EqualitySaura Masconale and Simone M. Sepe27. AI and the Law: Can the Legal System Help Us Maximize Paperclips and Minimize Deaths?Mihailis E. Diamantis, Rebekah Cochran, and Miranda DamPart V: Technology in Medicine and Sport28. Biomedical Technology and the Ethics of EnhancementDaniel Moseley and Christina Murray29. Genetic Enhancement: Just Say YesJason Brennan30. Feminism and the Ethics of Reprogenetic TechnologiesInmaculada de Melo-Martin31. Rethinking Ethical Subjectivity in the Biomedical Treatment of HIV RiskEmerich Daroya and Stuart J. Murray32. Against Doping in SportJohn William Devine
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Taylor & Francis Crowds Community and Contagion in Contemporary
Book SynopsisCrowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain presents the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to re-assess the neoliberal politics, xenophobia and racism that have undermined community cohesion in the United Kingdom since 1979, and which have continued largely unchecked through the last four decades.Guided by three interconnected ideas used throughout to scrutinise the meaning of culture as a way of life â Welsh cultural theorist Raymond Williamsâ structure of feeling, Jamaican-British sociologist Stuart Hallâs conception of the conjuncture and Belgian political philosopher Chantal Mouffeâs agonistic pluralism â Sarah Lowndes finds that a renewed sense of mutual regard and collective responsibility are necessary to meet the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. She begins by reflecting on public gatherings in Britain from 1945 to 2019, moving on to analyse five key examples of public gatherings affected by the pandemic in 2020 onwards: ChineseTable of ContentsList of Figures; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; Introduction; 1. From the Welfare State to Virtual Congregations: British Crowds 1945-2019; Part II: The Case Studies; 2. Chinese New Year, 25-26 January 2020, London, England; 3. UEFA Champion’s League Final, 11 March 2020, Liverpool, England; 4. VE Day, 8 May 2020, Various Locations, England; 5. Black Lives Matter Demonstrations, 7 June 2020, Various Locations Nationwide; 6. Eid ul-Adha, 31 July 2020, Leicester, England; 7. The New Normal: Cancelled Fireworks, Small Weddings and Socially Distanced Funerals; 8. Pandemic Demonstrations 2021: Taking the Knee, Sarah Everard, COP26, Kill the Bill and Anti-Vaxxers; Conclusion; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performance of Absence in Theatre Performance and
Book SynopsisThis research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance.Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant meaning. The book encourages active engagement with theatre theory and performances. Reconsideration of theories and experiences changes the way we engage with performances, as well as social relations and traditions outside of theatre. Sylwia Dobkowska examines and theorises absence and presence through theatre, performance, and visual arts practices.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, visual art, and philosophy.Table of Contents1. Absence and Theatre Studies 2. Absence and Objects 3. Absence and Performers 4. Absence and Audience
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art
Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping, although indebted to the spatial turn of poststructuralist philosophy, is reconstructed as hermeneutics, while exposing the nexus between topology, space-time, and memory. The book posits that the emergence of mapping as a ubiquitous theme in contemporary art can be attributed to the power of the cartographic model to constitute multiple worldviews that can be seen as paradigmatic of the post-modern and contemporary condition. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art theory, aesthetics, and cartography.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Democracy Now
Book SynopsisPositioning cultural democracy in a historical context and in a context of adjacent movements such as the creative commons, open source movement, and maker movement, this book goes back to first principles and asks what personhood means in the twenty-first century, what cultural democracy means, why we should want it, and how we can work towards it. In this new book, the author provides a timely untangling of the various historical meanings of the term and explores the various ways in which it has been co-opted, suggesting that it has a strength that we should open up to examination with a view to reinvigorating it. Just as importantly, the book situates cultural democracy within the wider framework of progressive political and social movements, and of the impact of new digital information and communication technologies. To those unfamiliar with the term, it introduces cultural democracy through related concepts such as digital cultural politics, participatory democracy, and Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Autonomous Vehicles1. The Mind and the Body2. Problems with Selfhood 3. Dennett's Solution4. Narratives and Consciousness5. Darwin and Evolution6. Genes and Memes7. Late to the PartyPart II: Cultural Landscapes8. The First Tools - Language and numbers9. The Nature of Tools - Conviviality10. Gamification - Shopping as Theatre11. Selling Ourselves - Quantified Data12. The Price of Fame - Film and Celebrity13. Liking our Selves - Social Media14. Buying the Culture - IP and CreativityPart III: Making a Difference15. Community, Citizenship, and Creativity16. Codifying Culture17. Cultural Democracy - A Definition18. Cultural Democracy and Community19. Cultural Democracy and Economics20. Cultural Democracy and Politics21. ALL Together NowAcknowledgementsContinuing…A Final Word about Language
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Educating Musicians for Sustainability
Book SynopsisEducating Musicians for Sustainability explores the intersections of sustainability and music, investigating how sustainability affects the development and professional preparation of musicians while asking the question, âWhat does sustainability have to do with music?â The volume presents a series of case studies organised according to an expanded view of the âfour pillars of sustainabilityâ, addressing cultural, environmental, economic, and social concerns. These case studies reveal a multitude of intersections, highlighting the crucial role music can play in raising awareness and overcoming the crisis of sustainability. In examining pedagogical and practical implications, aspiring musicians are encouraged to develop a broader view of the musical profession as a human endeavour, one that is intimately related to the world in which they live. Educating Musicians for Sustainability addresses the most pressing and serious problem of contemporary times â and seeks to inspire changes in attitudes and behaviour, for the benefit of all of humanity.Table of Contents1. Introduction / 2. Perspectives on sustainability / 3. Cultural sustainability in music / 4. Environmental sustainability in music / 5. Economic sustainability in music / 6. Social sustainability in music / 7. Case studies of music and sustainability / 8. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sounds of the Pandemic
Book SynopsisSounds of the Pandemic offers one of the first critical analyses of the changes in sonic environments, artistic practice, and listening behaviour caused by the Coronavirus outbreak. This multifaceted collection provides a detailed picture of a wide array of phenomena related to sound and music, including soundscapes, music production, music performance, and mediatisation processes in the context of COVID-19. It represents a first step to understanding how the pandemic and its by-products affected sound domains in terms of experiences and practices, representations, collective imaginaries, and socio-political manipulations. This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners working in the realms of music production and performance, musicology and ethnomusicology, sound studies, and media and cultural studies.Table of ContentsPart 1: Accounts: Sounds from a World under Lockdown 1. Listening to the First Lockdown: The Auditory Experience of Wrocław’s Inhabitants 2. Together in Discipline and Turmoil: Remembering Public Sounds during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic and Slovakia 3.Listening to the Hustle and the Hush: Sound, City, and the Pandemic 4. Applauses and Banners, Horns and Fireworks: Tracing the Sonic Expression of French Social Movements during Lockdown 5. Pandemic Soundscaping: Rediscovering a New Aura in the Mediatised Sonic Reality 6. Not People but a Sound: Virtual Audio and the Appropriation of Fandom Practices in Pandemic Football 7. A Digital Archive of Participatory Location Rhythm Performances: Listening as a Way of Attending to the Pandemic Part 2: Experiences: Musicking in the Face of the Pandemic 8. Huapanguitos pa seguir aguantando en cuarentena: Mexican SonTube Channels as Emergent Digital Spaces of Music and Community during COVID-19 9. "WHY DO THEY DANCE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PANDEMIC?" Post-Pandemic Cumbia, Mediated Live Music, and Digital Heritage from Mexico City 10. Sardinian Traditional Music during the COVID-19 Pandemic 11. Becoming Visible: Proud Roma and Sinti Musicians in Italy during the Pandemic 12. Rethinking Intermedia Practices during the Pandemic: Staging and Conception of Alexander Schubert’s Virtual Reality Video Game Genesis 13. Musicians in the Brazilian Pandemic: Facing COVID-19 during the Bolsonaro Regime and the Aldir Blanc Emergency Bill 14. Musical Performance during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Days of Future Passed? Part 3: Perspectives: Rethinking Sound and Music against the Backdrop of a Global Crisis 15. Coronamusic(king): Types, Repertoires, Consolatory Function 16. The Pandemic as a Catalyst for Remotivity in Music 17. Music in Lockdown: On Sonic Spaces during the COVID-19 Pandemic, March – June 2020 18. What a Blackbird Has Told Me: Latent Acoustic Learning in the Times of COVID-19 19. The Sounds and Silence of COVID-19 Quarantine: Media Representation, Debility, and Neoliberal Biopolitics 20. Four Sounds against Capitalocene: Lockdown, Music, and the Artist as Producer 21. Afterword: Coping with Crisis through Coronamusic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Clowns
Book SynopsisClowns: In Conversation is a groundbreaking collection of interviews expanded in this second edition to include over 30 of the greatest clowns on earth. In discussion with clown aficionados Ezra LeBank and David Bridel, these legends of comedy reveal the origins, inspirations, techniques, and philosophies that underpin their remarkable odysseys. These artists speak candidly about their first encounters with clowning and circus, the crucial decisions that carved out the foundations of their style, and the role of teachers and mentors who shaped their development. Follow the twists and turns that changed the direction of their art and careers, as they explore the role of failure and originality in their lives and performances, and examine the development and evolution of the signature routines that became each clown's trademark. This new edition has been fully updated and expanded, bringing in Lila Monti, Cristina Marti, Leo Bassi, Danise Payne, Bernice Collins, Ketch,Table of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Clowns 1. Leo Bassi 2. René Bazinet 3. Shannan Calcutt 4. Angela de Castro 5. Bernice Collins 6. Nina Conti 7. Dimitri 8. Robert Dunn 9. Jango Edwards 10. Avner Eisenberg 11. Aziz Gual 12. Hélène Gustin and Tanja Simma 13. Geoff Hoyle 14. Gardi Hutter 15. Bill Irwin and David Shiner 16. Ketch 17. David Larible 18. Cristina Marti 19. Michelle Matlock 20. Lila Monti 21. Bello Nock 22. Danise Payne 23. Larry and Lorenzo Pisoni 24. Slava Polunin 25. Oleg Popov 26. Nola Rae 27. Peter Shub 28. Misha Usov Reflections 29. Ezra and David in Conversation with Phil Burgers; Appendix of Terms
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Bagpipe
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1975, and written by an authority on Scottish music, this book traces the evolution of the bagpipe whilst also narrating the fortunes of the Great Highland Bagpipe' itself. Exploring history and archaeology of civilizations as far removed from the Scottish Highlands as Egypt and Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome this book offers a unique full-length history of one of the world's most interesting and ancient musical instruments. Appendices list the bagpipes of other countries and the materials used in the instrument's manufacture as well as a comprehensive bibliography. Trade Review‘It is masterly; Collinson is totally scientific and scholarly in his approach to the subject. It is an excellently and entertainingly written book, at times witty and very amusing. ‘ Dick Gaughan, Folk ReviewTable of Contents1. Antiquity: Sumeria, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Roman Britain 2. Britain After the Romans: The Roman Legacy, The Bag, Surviving Bagpipes 3. The Great Highland Bagpipe: The Early Pipes, The MacCrimmons, The Highland Companies Before Culloden, The Jacobite Risings, Culloden, The Disarming Act 1747, The Highland Society. Appendices.
£27.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Digital Reading Condition
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a critical overview of digital reading practices and scholarly efforts to analyze and understand reading in the mediatized landscape. Building on research about digital reading, born-digital literature, and digital audiobooks, The Digital Reading Condition explores reading as part of a broader cultural shift encompassing many forms of media and genres.Bringing together research from media and literary studies, digital humanities, scholarship on reading and learning, as well as sensory studies and research on multimodal and multisensory media reception, the authors address and challenge print-biased conceptions of reading that are still prevalent in research, whether the reading medium is print or digital. They argue that the act of reading itself is changing, and rather than rejecting digital media as unsuitable for sustained or focused reading practices, they argue that the complex media landscape challenges us to rethink how to define reading as Table of ContentsList of Contributors; Introduction; Section I: Historical and Sociocultural Perspectives on Reading; Introduction to Section I; 1. Reading and Materiality: Conditions of Digital Reading; 2. History of Media Cultures from the Perspective of Multisensory Reading; 3. The Condition of Reading in a Digital Media Culture; 4. Reading Toward Multiliteracies: Understanding Reading Comprehension and Reading Experience; Section II: Multisensory Reading; Introduction to Section II; 5. Reading and the Senses: Cultural and Technological Perspectives; 6. Reading a Literary App for Children; 7. Trends in Immersive Journalism; 8. Multisensory Reading of Digital Audiobooks; 9. How to Read a Network, or the Internet as Unfinished Demo; Section III: Reading Engagement: Aspects of Digital Reading; Introduction to Section III; 10. Deep, Focused, and Critical Reading Between Media; 11. Reading Digital Interfaces and Audiobooks: Media-Specific and Multisensory Aspects of Immersion; 12. Motivations for Audiobook Reading in Modern Everyday Lives; Section IV: Young Readers Between Media; Introduction to Section IV; 13. Digital Reading in Education: A Situated Disciplinary Literacies Perspective; 14. Different Modes of Reading: Eighth-Grade Students’ Interaction with a Digital Narrative; 15. Transmedial Reading; 16. Readers Between Media: Sixth-Grade Students Tuning in to Literature in Different Formats; Section V: Aesthetics and Digital Reading; Introduction to Section V; 17. Situated Reading; 18. Reading: Atmosphere, Ambience, and Attunement; 19. Resonance and the Digital Conditions of Reading; Conclusion: The Digital Reading Condition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Interior Design Concept
Book SynopsisInterior Design Concept combines a comprehensive introduction to design concept, with a reflective examination upon the various ways it can be understood, harnessed, and implemented. Within interior architecture and design, the power of conceptual thinking to fuel creativity, innovation, and collaboration is evident in the use of design concept. Broadly accepted as an essential component in the design process, design concept is a notoriously elusive topic which has, until now, received little critical attention. This book offers a reevaluation of current academic ideas about design methodologies and the nature of inspiration, alongside brand-new data from an international research study to help clarify what creativity really means in the modern world. Topics addressed throughout this text will examine the functions and definitions of design concept, analyze how it may be identified and integrated within the design process, investigate from where ideas for design concTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Functions of Design Concepts 2. Definitions of Design Concept 3. Identification of Design Concepts 4. Integration of Design Concepts in the Design Process 5. Generation of Design Concepts 6. Communication of Design Concepts Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Curating Interpretation and Museums
Book SynopsisFollowing a period of strategic and ideological change in museums, this book outlines new attitudes in curating and display, education and learning, text and interpretation, access, inclusion, participation, space, and the issues around the sustainability of the encyclopaedic collection. Focused on the contemporary period, the author questions the extent to which the museum visitor has become reliant on interpretative text and examines the development of new museum spaces where visitor interaction and engagement is welcomed. Changes of attitude have transformed our museums into modern spaces that reflect current needs and modern expectations and yet our permanent collections remain relatively unchanged, sometimes an uncomfortable reminder of a time when values, ethics, and attitudes were very different. The author will discuss these conflicts of ideology.Written by a researcher with expertise in museum practice, this shortform book offers a new approach that will be vaTable of Contents1. Collecting, Exhibiting and Curating 2. Interpretation and Text 3. Space and Place 4. The Will to Know. Looking Back … Final Thoughts
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Taylor & Francis Bridging Communities through Socially Engaged Art
Promoting the expansion of art in society and education, this book highlights the significance of the arts as an instrument of social justice, inclusion, equity, and protection of the environment.
£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Esports Insights
Book SynopsisEsports Insights outlines the fundamental characteristics, features, and structures of the rapidly growing esports industry and acts as the perfect primer for readers without any prior knowledge of esports.Featuring international case studies in every chapter, this book showcases the contemporary nature of esports through illustrative, industry examples. By offering a concise and easy to understand introduction, it discusses the key components, stakeholders, and features of this commercially driven sector, which by its very nature is dynamic and highly complex. Exploring current regulatory and governance structures within esports, it unpacks the industry's essential features by outlining the various genres, formats and stakeholders who are instrumental to the functioning of the esports industry. Adopting a critical but balanced analysis, the book discusses the social benefits of esports, outlining its potential as a tool for social inclusion and sport development, whilTable of Contents1. Esports Fundamentals, 2. Esports Governance and Regulation, 3. Esports as a Mechanism for Social Change, 4. Esports, Health and Wellbeing, 5. Esports Evolution
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Business of Indie Games
The Business of Indie Games provides exceptional insight into how the video games industry works. It shares valuable information on how to successfully self-publish and secure publisher support. Whether you're making your first game or tenth, this book is a must read. Paul Baldwin, Curve DigitalThe video game industry is a tough business and anyone looking to succeed in indie development should give The Business of Indie Games a read. Graham Smith, Co-Founder of DrinkBox StudiosThis book is a fast track to success for anyone managing a game launch and looking to raise funding for their projects. It shares knowledge that you only learn after years of triumphs and failures within this industry. Scott Drader, Co-Founder of Metalhead Software There's nothing like The Business of Indie Games taught in school. You learn how to make a game, but not how to conduct business, market, and laun
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Innovative Technology in Art Conservation
Book SynopsisInnovative Technology in Art Conservation provides one of the first ever critical assessments of innovation in conservation science and questions what role it should play in conservation and conservation ethics.Written in language understandable for the non-technical reader, the book begins with a brief history of so-called science-based conservation, which is based on chemistry, physics and engineering, and examines how it influences conservation ethics and conservation decisions. It considers the concepts of originality and original appearance, and how people see and perceive objects, looking in particular at the results of the relatively new technology of eye-tracking. Wei then moves on to critically examine advanced technologies such as colour modelling, hyperspectral imaging, texture mapping, virtual retouching and digital reproductions and considers what they offer for determining original appearance of artworks and other cultural heritage objects. The book concludes with some reflections on the future of conservation and science-based conservation, calling for more thoughtful consideration of what it is that conservation scientists are offering, and why and for whom it is being offered.Innovative Technology in Art Conservation is essential reading for academics and students working in conservation and conservation science. The book will also be of interest to the international community of conservators and cultural heritage professionals who must make decisions about whether to use advanced technologies in their practice.Table of ContentsI. Introduction – Conservation science and conservation ethics; II. Original appearance, perception and eye-tracking; III. Color; IV. Surface texture and appearance; V. Digitalization and reproduction technology; VI. The future – a new reality
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Framing the Police on Twitter
Book SynopsisThis work assesses the various meanings attached to calls for police reform in the public discourse on social media, providing readers with a greater appreciation of the assumptions, empirical claims, and rhetorical nuances that underpin the current dialogue about police policy. Drawing upon an intersectional theoretical and mixed-methods approach, the authors look at what it means to defund or abolish the police, as well as the definition of community policing.The death of George Floyd in 2020 resulted in national and international protests during which some members of the public began to demand abolishing or defunding the police, ideas previously put forth in academic arenas. However, these public protests were often presented in rhetorical ways that differed from the academic roots of the ideas. This book takes a deep look into what it means to defund or abolish the police, drawing upon academic origins of the concepts while at the same time examining how the public has used Twitter to define and discuss these ideas. The authors identify frameworks built around the concepts, discuss facts and perspectives that have contributed to these ideas, and explain how quantitative methods can be used to illustrate the most prominent frames.This book incorporates both quantitative and qualitative means of research in an examination of Twitter and brings clarity to the conversation surrounding the abolish the police, defund the police, and community policing concepts. It is suitable for undergraduate to graduate-level college courses in criminology, sociology, policing, race in America, communication, social media, and research methods. Table of Contents1 Media Depictions of Law Enforcement2 Abolish the Police on Twitter3 Defund the Police on Twitter4 Public Discourse and the Nature of Community Policing5 Summary and Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Creative Bodies in Therapy Performance and
Book SynopsisCreative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community champions several diverse and innovative approaches in the professional engagement with the creative body as a catalyst for change in therapy, education, somatics and performance. With contributors from the wide-ranging fields of performance and visual arts, psychotherapy, dance and somatics, this book articulates practice-based experiences in a creative language. The readers are invited to move from the process of reading, into the experience of being in and making sense of the world through a moving body. The book meanders purposefully through practice-led embodied approaches in research that generate new knowledge, methodological frameworks that have emerged in response to the needs of different contexts, as well as offerring a window on first-hand experience as practice.The book will appeal to a wide range of practitioners and trainees in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, arts therapies, counselling and psyTrade Review‘Frizell and Rova’s book is fizzing with ideas, thoughts and bodies of all kinds that continually touch, move and morph into new assemblages. The book is unsettling – in the best sense of the word: questioning, probing and deconstructing established binaries and norms, and in the process revealing new vistas of humanity’s capacity for compassion, connection and depth. Reading this book was a stirring experience for me, not dissimilar to that of reading David Abram’s Spell of the Sensuous, which is high praise indeed.’ - Dr Farhad Dalal, psychotherapist, group analyst and author, UK‘Caroline Frizell and Marina Rove have brought together an inspiring collection of voices that weave a picture of contemporary embodied research and practice as creatively, politically, critically and evocatively alive and kicking. As co-editors, authors and co-authors of chapters, they bring a spirit of spontaneity, inclusiveness, warmth and humour to a complex and rigorous intersectional enquiry. The book spans a range of research, theoretical and practical approaches to creative, movement, dance and community psychotherapy, its contributors representing and working with a truly diverse set of people and contexts. This anthology walks its talk or rather dances it….as the construction of the book, its layers, and the dialogue within and between each chapter, shimmer and resonate. Each chapter takes us through steps of embodied knowing towards transformation that goes beyond the personal and into wider social change.’ - Roz Carroll, psychotherapist, trainer and author, UK‘Self-reflective, experimental and full of warmth, this collaborative book is a welcome example of creative non-fiction that deepens the project of integrating the embodied and the relational.’ - Jane Ryan, Founder and Creative Director of Confer, UK‘Frizell and Rova’s book is fizzing with ideas, thoughts and bodies of all kinds that continually touch, move and morph into new assemblages. The book is unsettling – in the best sense of the word: questioning, probing and deconstructing established binaries and norms, and in the process revealing new vistas of humanity’s capacity for compassion, connection and depth. Reading this book was a stirring experience for me, not dissimilar to that of reading David Abram’s Spell of the Sensuous, which is high praise indeed.’ - Dr Farhad Dalal, psychotherapist, group analyst and author, UK‘Caroline Frizell and Marina Rove have brought together an inspiring collection of voices that weave a picture of contemporary embodied research and practice as creatively, politically, critically and evocatively alive and kicking. As co-editors, authors and co-authors of chapters, they bring a spirit of spontaneity, inclusiveness, warmth and humour to a complex and rigorous intersectional enquiry. The book spans a range of research, theoretical and practical approaches to creative, movement, dance and community psychotherapy, its contributors representing and working with a truly diverse set of people and contexts. This anthology walks its talk or rather dances it….as the construction of the book, its layers, and the dialogue within and between each chapter, shimmer and resonate. Each chapter takes us through steps of embodied knowing towards transformation that goes beyond the personal and into wider social change.’ - Roz Carroll, psychotherapist, trainer and author, UK‘Self-reflective, experimental and full of warmth, this collaborative book is a welcome example of creative non-fiction that deepens the project of integrating the embodied and the relational.’ - Jane Ryan, Founder and Creative Director of Confer, UKTable of ContentsTable of contents List of Figures Acknowledgements List of contributors Foreword: Dr Jill Westwood Chapter 1Arriving, becoming and arriving again Caroline Frizell and Marina RovaChapter 2Check- in, please! Exploring movement check-ins as a tool for embodied psychotherapeutic practiceHeidrun PanhoferChapter 3Arts-based research and self-reflexive autobiographical performance Ditty DokterChapter 4Kinaesthetic entanglements and creative immersion in embodied performanceMarina RovaChapter 5The cat, the foal and other meetings that make a difference: Posthuman research that re-animates our responsiveness to knowing and becomingCaroline FrizellChapter 6Offerings tells the stories of our lives in movementSarah Black-Frizell and Angela Pierre LouisChapter 7Lives transformed through dance: The art of dance as a catalyst for personal transformationEllen SteinmüllerChapter 8Breath, belly and back: Dropping into body as ground Paul BeaumontChapter 9‘Is that yoga or are you just making it up?’ Helen PoynorChapter 10Being seen and seeing self: Explorations in the creative process in performance and therapyClaire Burrell Chapter 11Finding my way home: An embodied journey to building an inclusive dance community Juliet DienerChapter 12Dancing in the kitchen: Using creativity and embodiment to promote a decolonising approach to psychotherapyArchana BallalChapter 13Sing your way home: Designing a creative group intervention in the women’s prison as a Dance Movement Therapist in SingaporeAgnes LawChapter 14Borderlands: Exploring creativity as a practice of liminality in the arts therapies Marina Rova and Marrianne BehmChapter 15Indominus Rex; developing mentalisation with offenders through externalisation and creativity in a Dance Movement Psychotherapy Group Dawn BatcupChapter 16Dancing with Stephen: Reconnecting with the body in a search for closureGoretti Barjacoba-SoutoChapter 17The matriarch and the mollusc and all things in betweenCaroline Frizell and Helen PoynorChapter 18Happening upon a cobwebCaroline Frizell and Marina RovaIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art History at the Crossroads of Ireland and the
Book SynopsisTaking the visual arts as its focus, this anthology explores aspects of cultural exchange between Ireland and the United States. Art historians from both sides of the Atlantic examine the work of artists, art critics and art promoters. Through a close study of selected paintings and sculptures, photography and exhibitions from the nineteenth century to the present, the depth of the relationship between the two countries, as well as its complexity, is revealed. The book is intended for all who are interested in Irish/American interconnectedness and will be of particular interest to scholars and students of art history, visual culture, history, Irish studies and American studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1. Desperate and Glorious: John Mulvany’s Custer’s Last Rally, 2. ‘An American and Not an Irish statue’: Commemorating Naval Hero Commodore John Barry, 3. Some thoughts on Arthur Kingsley Porter and Françoise Henry as Transcultural Pioneers of Early Irish Medieval Art, 4. Irish Art at the Armory Show, 1913, 5. Seeing New York: Jack Butler Yeats and the American City, 6. 'This New Life of Painting': Morris Graves in Ireland, 1954–64, 7. Ireland’s ‘Strayed Angel’: George W. Russell (AE) – From Dublin to New York, 1904–1934, 8. Dorothea Lange in Ireland: Anthropology and Image, 9. Sean Scully: Painting a Global Immigrant’s Vision, 10. Transnational Solidarity: African American and Irish Intersections in Public Art Commemorating Frederick Douglass, 11. Kathy Prendergast: Transcultural Cartography, 12. Uncommon Kinships: The Generous Reciprocity of the Choctaw Nation and Ireland
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Journalists and Job Loss
Book SynopsisJournalists and Job Loss explores the profound disruption of journalism work in the 21st century's networked digital media environment. The chapters analyse how journalists have experienced and navigated job loss, re-employment, career change and career re-invention as traditional patterns of newsroom employment give way to occupational change, income insecurity and precarious work in journalism globally. The authors showcase the design, methodology and results of the New Beats project, a ground-breaking longitudinal study of change in the work of Australian journalists, as well as related case studies of job loss and career change in journalism based on research in different national settings across the global North and global South. The book also considers the wider implications of changes in journalism work for media sustainability, gender equity, and journalism work futures. The book provides a theoretically informed and empirically grounded analysis of joTrade ReviewJournalism is unthinkable without journalists. But in the 2010s and early 2020s, the storytellers became the story as the digital revolution – and then the Covid pandemic – ravaged their industry. With perfect timing, this book helps us make sense of what those changes mean for democracy, communication and public life. It tells us about the personal impact of job loss and adaptation, puts the phenomenon of journalism job loss in an international perspective, and points the way to a better understanding of journalism in the present and the future.Professor Sally Young, University of Melbourne, AustraliaThis vital book on the experience of job loss and its aftermath in journalism is among the first to explore comprehensively a phenomenon understudied by journalism scholars and feared by news workers whose livelihoods depend on news organisations’ paycheques. As the pandemic further diminishes employment and increases precarity in journalism, the insights this edited collection provides into these often-traumatic transformations and the subsequent struggles for new careers and professional re-orientation become even more urgent. Especially compelling are those chapters that show how job loss experiences of (ex)journalists intersect with or are shaped by gender, class, race, geographic location, news industry sustainability or options for collective organization.Mirjam Gollmitzer, Université de Montréal, CanadaJournalism is undergoing massive transformations around the world, including unprecedented job losses and growing precarity. Yet, we know little about the experiences of those who have been forced to leave the industry after often long and successful careers. Journalists and Job Loss fills this important gap, giving us a detailed and comparative account of what losing their job has meant to these journalists. It is truly a landmark study that should be required reading for anyone trying to better understand current developments in journalism globally.Folker Hanusch, University of Vienna, AustriaTraditionally the term ‘precarity’ refers to a state of persistent insecurity in respect of employment and income. Today the term also often registers the precariousness of life in our world of accelerating and mutually compounding ecological and economic crises. Journalists and Job Loss with its multi-faceted and in-depth focus on the structural and professional transformations of journalism in an era of digital and industrial change, serves to remind us of the consequences of increased journalist precarity on journalism and the reporting of our increasingly precarious world. Timely, necessary, insightful.Simon Cottle, Professor of Media and Communication, Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsList of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Understanding Job Loss Among Journalists; 1. Understanding Job Loss Among Journalists; Part I. A New Field of Study: What Happens Next After Job Loss in Journalism; 2. Australian Journalists: Adapting to Redundancy Over Time; 3. Passion and Precarity: Producing Public Interest Journalism After Job Loss; 4. Newly Branded: The Experiences of Post-Redundancy Journalists Who Go on to Work in Public Relations; 5. Understanding Loss in Legacy Newsrooms; 6. Job Loss and Unionism in Australian Journalism; Part II. Towards World-Wide Understanding: Case Studies of the Aftermath of Job Loss in the Global North and South; 7. Living on the Edge: U.S. Newspaper Journalism Following the Great Exodus; 8. Finland: Shock and Relief; 9. The Netherlands: Making it Work; 10. Not ‘Just Another Job’: Journalism as Public Service; 11. Indonesian Women Journalists and Precarious Work; 12. Traumatic Transitions and Loss: How Journalists in South Africa Experience Job Loss; 13. Plan B: The Abandonment of Journalism in Portugal; Part III. Beyond Newsrooms: Job Loss, Media Sustainability, and Work Futures; 14. Down, But Not Out: Journalism Jobs and Media Sustainability in the UK; 15. The Job is Only Part of the Story: Understanding Job Loss in Journalism Through Livelihood; 16. Freelance Journalists in Australia at a Time of Industry Contraction and COVID-19
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Game Design Tools
Book SynopsisThis book provides a series of transdisciplinary tools to help game designers improve their design pipeline and design output. Using approaches from psychology, anthropology, and sociology, it offers practical tools for all the main aspects of game design from conception through to testing.Drawing on game design theory, the book looks at the relationship between game design and other disciplines to create a toolbox of modern tools for game designers. It covers archetypes, praxeology, behavioural game design, and emotional game design. Covering a wide breadth of content, the book includes chapters on: Documentation Production Evaluation Analysis and Marketing tools This book will be of great interest to students on game design courses, as well as early-career game designers and those looking to break into the industry. It will also be of interest to more experienced game designers looking for new game design tools.Table of ContentsSection One - IntroductionChapter 1 - How to Use This BookChapter 2 - Book IntroductionSection Two - Analysis ToolsChapter 3 - Design and AnalysisChapter 4 - Target Audience ToolsChapter 5 - Data ToolsSection Three - Game Design ToolsChapter 6 - Introduction to Game Design ToolsChapter 7 - Brainstorming TechniquesChapter 8 - PraxeologyChapter 9 - Self-Determination TheoryChapter 10 - Habit Loop and Operant ConditioningChapter 11 - Game Design PatternsChapter 12 - MDA FrameworkChapter 13 - NudgesChapter 14 - Behavioural Game DesignChapter 15 - Emotional Game DesignChapter 16 - Emotional TheoriesSection Four - DocumentationChapter 17 - Introduction to DocumentationChapter 18 - Golden RulesChapter 19 - Pivotal DocumentsSection Five - ConclusionChapter 20 - Games, Cakes, and LoveChapter 21 - The Cake Is Real
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