Theatre studies Books
Cambridge University Press Kickstarting Italian Opera in the Andes
Book SynopsisThis Element focuses on opera as a product that both challenged and was challenged in the Andes by other forms of performing arts, behaviours, technologies, material realities, and business models.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Music and theatre in the Andes around 1840; 2. The framework for Italian opera; 3. A distruptive form of business; 4. Repertories of Italian opera; 5. The limits of Italian opera; 6. A very personal journey; Epilogue; References.
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Cambridge University Press Decolonising African Theatre
Book SynopsisThis Element uses Afroscenology as a theory to read and comment on African theatre. The Element particularly focuses on the history of laboratories in which it was tested and emerged, the historicization of rombic theatre and the crafting of theatric theory.
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Cambridge University Press Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern
Book SynopsisDebunks stereotypes about blindness, in which readers, receivers and spectators from antiquity to the present have been implicated because their persistence relies on audiences to perpetuate them. Argues for a new way of seeing and of understanding classical reception - using assemblage-thinking and with a focus on the theatre.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Looking and Looking Back; 1. Towards Visual Activism; 2. Blindness and / as Punishment; 3. Blindness as Metaphorical Death; 4. Blindness as Second Sight; Interlude: Colonial Visions; 5. Blindness and Spectatorship; Conclusion: Assembling the Future.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 77
Book SynopsisShakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year''s textual and critical studies and of the year''s major British performances. The theme for Volume 77 is ''Shakespeare''s Poetry''. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at www.cambridge.org/core/publications/collections/cambridge-shakespeare. This searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic, and save and bookmark their results.
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Cambridge University Press Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Music and Leadership
Book SynopsisWomen, Music and Leadership offers a wide-ranging survey of women in musical leadership and their experiences, highlighting women's achievements and considering how they negotiate the challenges of the leadership space in music.Women have always participated in music as performers, teachers, composers and professionals, but remain underrepresented in leadership positions. Covering women's leadership across a wide variety of roles and musical genres, this book addresses women in classical music, gospel, blues, jazz, popular music, electronic music and non-Western musical contexts, and considers women working as composers, as conductors, and in music management and the music business. Each chapter includes several case studies of women's careers, exploring their groundbreaking contributions to music and the challenges they faced as leaders.Connecting management theory and leadership research with feminist musicology, this book paints a new picture of women's majTable of Contents1. The Context for Women in Musical Leadership 2. Women and Musical Composition 3. Women Conductors 4. Women in Classical Instrumental and Vocal Music Performance 5. Women in Blues, Jazz, Gospel and Motown 6. Women in Popular Music 7. Women in Electronic Music 8. Women in non-Western Musical Contexts 9. Women in the Music Industry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dramaturgies of Interweaving
Book SynopsisDramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts.Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of interweaving are creative methods of theater and art-making that seek to address audiences across cultures, making them uniquely suitable for shaping people's experiences of our entangled world. Presenting in-depth case studies from across the globe, spanning Australia, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, the US, and the UK, this book investigates how dramaturgies of interweaving are conceived, applied, and received today. Featuring critical analyses by scholarsas well as workshop reports and artworks by renowned artiststhis book examines dramaturgies of interweaving from multiple locations and perspectives, thus revealing their distinct complexities and immense potential.Ideal for sTable of ContentsPART I Sketching Designs for Unique Encounters 1 The Tjunta Trail: Cross-Cultural Dramaturgy in Australian Place-Making 2 Diagrammatic Dramaturgies: Navigations between Theory, Disfiguration, and Movement PART II Interlacing Archival Threads 3 No(H) To Trio A: Interweaving Dramaturgies for a Performative Exhibition of Yvonne Rainer’s Work 4 Performance Community in an Age of Reenactment: Takao Kawaguchi’s About Kazuo Ohno and the Conversation with Ghosts PART III Unraveling Productions 5 Speaking Black: Tonya Pinkins’s Mother Courage 6 Catalyst and Conduit: A Call for the Bicultural Dramaturge INTERLUDE A Durus Arabij/Arabic Lessons B Arabic Lessons: Stämme/שורשים/جذور C Heiliger Franz/St. Francis: Notes from a Playwright’s Perspective PART IV Entangling Diverse Audiences 7 Encountering a "Theater of (Inter-)Singularity": Transformations and Rejections of Shifting Institutional Dramaturgies in Contemporary German Theater 8 Yael Ronen: Devising Dramaturgy for an Interwoven World PART V Unfolding Alternatives 9 Alternative Dramaturgies Informed by a Deaf and Disability Perspective 10 Dramaturgies of In-Betweenness: Iranian Theater and Performance Art since the 1970s PART VI Tailoring Textual Material 11 Learning with Broken Words: Directing Plastic Rose by Shogo Ota with Collaborative Dramaturgy 12 The Emergence of Co-Dramaturgy: Arthur Miller, Satyajit Ray, and Thomas Ostermeier Encounter Ibsen Coda: Performers and Time: The Five Stages of Waiting
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Staging Playing Pyrotechnics and Magic
Book SynopsisIn this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed. Matters of staging for both ''pageant vehicle'' and ''theatre-in-the-round'' are described and analysed to consider their impact on playing by players, expositors, narrators and prompters. All these operators also functioned to promote the closely aligned disciplines of pyrotechnics and magic (legerdemain or sleight of hand) which also influence the nature of the presented theatre. The sixteen chapters form four clearly identified partsstaging, playing, pyrotechnics and magicand drawing on a wealth of primary source material, Butterworth encourages the reader to rediscover and reappreciate the actors, magicians, wainwrights and wheelwrights, pyrotechnists, and (in modern terms) the special effects people and event managers who brought these early texts to theatrical Table of Contents1. 'The York Mercers' Pageant Vehicle, 1433-1467: Wheels, Steering, and Control' / 2. 'Hugh Platte’s Collapsible Wagon' / 3. 'Pageant Carriage Maintenance at Chester' / 4. 'Jetties, Pentices, Purprestures and Ordure: Obstacles to Pageants and Processions in London' / 5. 'The work of William Parnell, supplier of staging and ingenious devices, and his role in the visit of Elizabeth Woodville to Norwich in 1469' / 6. 'The York Crucifixion: Actor/Audience Relationship' / 7. ''Jean Fouquet's 'The Martyrdom of St Apollonia' and 'The Rape of the Sabine Women' as Iconographical Evidence of Medieval Theatre Practice' / 8. 'Richard Carew's Ordinary: the First English Director' / 9. 'Prompting in Full View of the Audience: The Groningen Experiment' / 10. 'Hellfire: Flame as Special Effect' / 11. 'The Light of Heaven: Flame as Special Effect' / 12. The Providers of Pyrotechnics in Plays and Celebrations' / 13. 'Juggling and Staging Tricks in Early Theatre' / 14. 'Brandon, Feats and Hocus Pocus: Jugglers Three' / 15. 'Hocus Pocus Junior: Further Confirmation of its Author' / 16. 'Is there any Further Value to be Gained from Re-Staging Medieval Theatre?'
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Youth Culture and the Music Industry in
Book SynopsisThis book explores young Cambodians' perceptions of their place in today's society and how they interact with the country's arts and culture scene. The popularity of Cambodian hip-hop among youth presents an opportunity for research to dive deeper into the roles of popular music in society and how these roles, in turn, shape Cambodian cultural identities.Research on the above-mentioned topic by local researchers is scarce. There is a gap in the research on the topic of identity, its connection to arts and culture, and how these two are positioned in a broader context of Cambodian identity politics and cultural economy. This book aims to provide a starting point for observation and conversation about youth cultural identities and the subtexts of certain narratives disseminated through music. The book contributes to the global research agenda by adding to the few voices in academia looking at localised models of cultural economies and trying to understand them based on local phTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Ecosystem of Cambodia’s arts and culture 3 Young Cambodians, cultural identities, and generational differences 4 Music and its reinterpretation in current discourse 5 Connecting the dots: A juncture of identity, youth, culture, tradition, and modernity
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Taylor & Francis New Dramaturgies
Book SynopsisIn New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting, Mark Bly offers a new playwriting book with nine unique play-generating exercises.These exercises offer dramaturgical strategies and tools for confronting and overcoming obstacles that all playwrights face. Each of the chapters features lively commentary and participation from Blyâs former students. They are now acclaimed writers and producers for media such as House of Cards, Weeds, Friday Night Lights, Warrior, and The Affair, and their plays appear onstage in major venues such as the Roundabout Theatre, Yale Rep, and the Royal National Theatre. They share thoughts about their original response to an exercise and why it continues to have a major impact on their writing and mentoring today. Each chapter concludes with their original, inventive, and provocative scene generated in response to Blyâs exercise, providing a vivid real-life example of Trade Review"Reading Bly’s book was a special treat [...] Many times, when you’re working on a problem and can’t come up with an answer, if you keep reading, the answer will come to you. Such was the case reading New Dramaturgies."- Edwin Wong, Doing Melpomene's WorkTable of ContentsForeword Introduction 1. The "Sum Forty Tales from the Afterlives" Exercise 2. Bly’s "Einstein’s Dream" Exercise 3. Bly’s "Character’s Greatest Fear" Exercise 4. Bly’s "Character’s Greatest Pleasure" Exercise 5. Bly’s "Kafka’s Train" Exercise 6. Bly’s "Music Memory" Exercise 7. Bly’s "Myth" Exercise 8. Bly’s "Nashville Film Overlapping Dialogue and Storyline" Exercise 9. Bly’s "Sensory Writing" Exercise Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bringing Set and Costume Designs to Fruition
Book SynopsisBringing Set and Costume Designs to Fruition: Made by Teams dives into the collaborative working relationships between set and costume designers with their technical counterparts throughout the theatrical production process, from concept to execution.Set and costume designers render environments and characters for a wide array of performative events; skilled artisans and technologists bring these visions to life. This book explores the dynamic between those who decide what the set and costumes should look like and those who make them work, including scene designers, costume designers, scene shops, and costume shops. The book discusses how to identify resources, ask the right questions, and engage in healthy collaborations. Following these fundamentals are practical activities and interviews with industry professionals that demonstrate how these skills can be applied to a broad range of productions and other avenues for creative design and production.BringiTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Me Team 3. Self-Managed Team 4. Functional Team 5. Contract Team 6. Pivoting Teams 7. Conclusion Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sound Heritage
Sound Heritage is the first study of music in the historic house museum, featuring contributions from both music and heritage scholars and professionals in a richly interdisciplinary approach to central issues. It examines how music materials can be used to create narratives about past inhabitants and their surroundings - including aspects of social and cultural life beyond the activity of music making itself - and explores how music as sound, material, and practice can be more consistently and engagingly integrated into the curation and interpretation of historic houses.The volume is structured around a selection of thematic chapters and a series of shorter case studies, each focusing on a specific house, object or project. Key themes include: Different types of historic house, including the case of the composer or musician house; what can be learned from museums and galleries about the use of sound and music and what may not transfer to the historic h
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Taylor & Francis Ltd 360 Circus
Book SynopsisThis collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus' role within society. This book consists of a collection of articles from renowned circus researchers, junior researchers, and artists. It also provides the core statements and discussions of the conference UpSideDownCircus and Space in a graphic recording format. Hence, it allows a clear entry into the field of circus research and emphasizes the diversity of approaches that are well balanced between theoretical and artistic point of views. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of circus studies, emerging disciples of circus and performance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Welcome to the Wonderland of Contemporary CircusFranziska TrappPart I: Circus MeaningChapter 1. Circus Does Not ExistJean-Michel GuyChapter 2. "La Putyka" by Cirk La Putyka: A Glimpse at Czech Contemporary CircusVeronika ŠtefanováPart II: Circus PracticeChapter 3. On Mutations of Forms, Style, and Meaning: From a Traditional to a Contemporary Trapeze ActSandy SunChapter 4. Articulating Hand-Balancing: Finding Space for Critical Self-TransformationCamilla DamkjaerChapter 5. Extreme SymbiosisLouise Von Euler Bjurholm and Henrik AggerChapter 6. Hamlet: To Have Written or Not to Have Written for the TightwireLouis Patrick LerouxChapter 7. Verticality, Gravity, Sense of Balance. Transmitting a Technique, Conveying a Sensation: Practices and Discourses of Circus Arts TeachersAgathe DumontChapter 8. Reading Circus. Dramaturgy on the Border of Art and AcademiaFranziska TrappChapter 9. UpSideDown Circus and SpaceDie Zeichner. Andreas GärtnerPart III: Circus CultureChapter 10. Circus Between Technique and Technology: Heideggerian "Enframing" and the Contested Space of Free Expression Sebastian KannChapter 11. Chaplin, Brecht, Fo: Toward a Concept of Epic ClowningGaia VimercatiChapter 12. To Walk the TightwireAnte UrsicChapter 13. The Spatiality of Australian Contemporary CircusKristy SeymourChapter 14. Cheerful, Nostalgic, Melancholic: Mood in CircusPeta TaitIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume II: Education examines the many methods and motivations for vocal pedagogy, promoting singing not just as an art form arising from the musical instrument found within every individual but also as a means of communication with social, psychological, and didactic functions. Presenting research from myriad fields of study beyond music—including psychology, education, sociology, computer science, linguistics, physiology, and neuroscience—the contributors address singing in three parts: Learning to Sing Naturally Formal Teaching of Singing Using Singing to Teach In 2009, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded a seven-year major collaborative research initiative known as Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS). Together, global researchers from a broad range of disciplines addressed three challenging questions: HowTable of ContentsIntroduction: Singing and education: Learning to sing and singing to learn Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir, Carol Beynon, & Karen M. Ludke / Part I: Learning to Sing Naturally / 1. Learning to sing naturally Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir / 2. Informal singing practices of children: A theoretical review focusing on play theory and communication theory Matt Swanson / 3. Singing acquisition in the first years of life Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir / 4. Children learning to sing in everyday family life in minority world homes Susan Young & Bronya Dean / 5. The songs children sing: Music-theoretic analysis in the context of children's and classroom cultures Megan M. Purdue & Patricia Shehan Campbell / 6. Functions of singing and songs in the lives of Brazilian children Beatriz Ilari & Rogério Budasz / 7. Musical features and community thematic of selected children’s songs of the Wagogo people of Central Tanzania Kedmon Elisha Mapana / 8. Field recordings of children’s singing: An examination of Internet-based resources J. Christopher Roberts / 9. Singing through childhood: The role of song in girls’ initiation schools in Vhavenda communities, South Africa Andrea Emberly & Tondani Tshitokisi / 10. Singing in South African schools Thomas M. Pooley / 11. Vocal self-image of Chinese adults Esther Mang / 12. Adults learning traditional Icelandic vocal music in a semi-formal setting Kimberly Cannady / 13. Antecedents to the career of singer-songwriter as revealed by interviews and on-line surveys Annabel J. Cohen, Christopher Robison, Quincy Beck, & Michael Speelman / Part II: Formal Teaching of Singing / 14. The formal and non-formal teaching of singing in the studio and choral environment Carol Beynon / 15. Science-informed vocal pedagogy: Motor learning, deliberate practice and the challenge of cognitive dissonance Lynn Helding / 16. Interdisciplinary breath connections: Training singers using dance applications Darryl Edwards & Jennifer Swan / 17. Using the International Phonetic Alphabet as a tool to teach singing Pilar Lirio / 18. Multimodal analysis of Indian vocal music training Hans F. Utter / 19. The singer as researcher: Exploring the development and use of performance cues Jane Ginsborg / 20. How professional and student singers cope with performance anxiety Vaike Kiik-Salupere & Jaan Ross / 21. Evaluation tools in singing education: A comparison of human and technological measures Pauline Larrouy-Maestri / 22. Art Song pedagogy and performance practice: Re-envisioning the realm in the 21st century Rena Sharon / 23. Teamwork: Teaching solo singers in the university choral ensemble Darryl Edwards & Jakub Martinec / 24. Changes in choral practice and research in the 21st century Jason Noble / 25. Fostering transformative singing engagement with secondary school students Jim Sparks & Susan O’Neill / 26. Pedagogical strategies for influencing the adolescent male voice change Jennifer Beynon-Martinec & Jakub Martinec / 27. The lifecycle of the female singing voice Vindhya Khare / 28. Rehearsal techniques for youth and senior voices in intergenerational choir singing Jennifer Lang & Carol Beynon / Part III: Using Singing to Teach / 29. Using singing and songs to learn and to teach Karen M. Ludke / 30. Relationships between intrinsic and broader educational benefits of singing training Martin F. Gardiner / 31. Singing – a pathway to friendship, empathy and language in children from different backgrounds Nora Bilalovic Kulset / 32. Singing to support foreign language learning: Examples from two cultural and developmental contexts Karen M. Ludke & Arla Good / 33. Can singing facilitate learning second language morphosyntax in native speakers of Chinese : An artificial language study Henrietta Lempert / 34. Do singing and music enhance language learning, including perception and pronunciation? Sandra Cornaz, Diane Caussade, & Vincent Groff / 35. Singing and moving: Theorizing children’s self-directed musical play June Countryman & Martha A. Gabriel / 36. Singing in instrumental music instruction Kathy Liperote / 37. Making mathematics special through song: what math experiences are worth singing about? George Gadanidis & Ricardo Scucuglia / Conclusion: Singing education and singing in education - From nursery to concert hall Helga Rut Gudmundsdottir,, Karen Ludke, Carol Beynon, & Annabel J. Cohen
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume III: Wellbeing explores the connections between singing and health, promoting the power of singingin public policy and in practicein confronting health challenges across the lifespan. These chapters shape an interdisciplinary research agenda that advances singing's theoretical, empirical, and applied contributions, providing methodologies that reflect individual and cultural diversities. Contributors assess the current state of knowledge and present opportunities for discovery in three parts: Singing and Health Singing and Cultural Understanding Singing and Intergenerational Understanding In 2009, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded a seven-year major collaborative research initiative known as Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS). Together, global researchers from a broad range of disciplines addressed three chalTable of ContentsIntroduction: Singing and wellbeing: Harnessing the power of singing Rachel Heydon, Daisy Fancourt & Annabel J. Cohen / Part I: Singing and Health / 1. A logic model for the effects of singing on health Daisy Fancourt & Katey Warran / 2. Singing and wellbeing across the lifecourse: Evidence from recent research Norma Daykin, Louise Mansfield, & Christina Victor / 3. The potential of the human voice for early parent-infant interactions in at-risk populations Marie Dahlstrom, Lauren Stewart, & Helen Shoemark / 4. Singing and stuttering Simone Falk, Ramona Schreier, & Frank Russo / 5. Singing for health and wellbeing in children and adolescents with mental disorders Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring & Leonhard Thun-Hohenstein / 6. Singing for cancer: Implications for psychoneuroimmunology Daisy Fancourt & Katey Warran / 7. Singing for lung health Phoene Cave, Adam Lewis, & Daisy Fancourt / 8. Singing for rehabilitation: Efficacy of singing-based interventions in major ageing-related neurological disorders Teppo Särkämö / 9. The Impact of singing on human communication in aging: From protection to rehabilitation Pascale Tremblay & Julie-Anne Veilleux / 10. Singing and Parkinson’s disease Merrill Tanner / 11. Singing as an evolved behavior for social bonding: The ice-breaker effect, beta-endorphins, and groups of more than 150 people Jacques Launay & Eiluned Pearce / 12. Effects of singing on social support and wellbeing amongst marginalized communities Jane Davidson & Benjamin Leske / 13. Group singing in prison: Discovering and developing best possible self Jody Kerchner / 14. Singing in palliative care, oncology, and bereavement music therapy Amy Clements-Cortes & Rebecca Wright / Part II: Singing and Cultural Understanding / 15. Singing, cultural understanding, and wellbeing- Research approaches Annabel J. Cohen & Lily Chen-Hafteck / 16. Reducing prejudices through cross-cultural music education programs that include singing Félix Neto / 17. Cross-cultural perspectives on researching children’s singing and cultural understanding Lily Chen-Hafteck / 18. Exploring strategies of promoting the singing of multicultural songs in primary school education in Kenya Elizabeth Achieng Andang’o / 19. The effects of using audiovisual materials to support multicultural song-learning in two Brazilian schools Alda Oliveira, Zuraido Bastião, & Angelita Broock / 20. Exploring the impact of a culture bearer on intercultural understanding within a community choir Benjamin Bolden & Larry O’Farrell / 21. Development of multicultural choirs on college campuses: Theory and practice Annabel J. Cohen, Karen Ludke, & Bing-Yi Pan / 22. Fun and formality in two multicultural university choirs/song circles in Atlantic Canada Godfrey Baldacchino, Anna Baldacchino, & Blair Ellis / 23. Studying singing storytellers in Cape Breton: Community-engaged research-creation as a methodology Marcia Ostashewski / 24. Building bridges between self and others: A suggestion for music education through Greek singing Maria Hnaraki & Antonia Forari / 25. Breathless: Singing and social justice in a time without air Shana Redmond / 26. Choral singing in Australian Indigenous Christian contexts and its implications for intergenerational wellbeing Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg / Part III: Singing and Intergenerational Understanding / 27. Intergenerational singing and wellbeing Rachel Heydon, Christopher Eaton, Sarah Black, Emma Cooper, & Susan O’Neill / 28. Songs of gender and generation: Ethnographic perspectives on initiation songs and wellbeing in southern Africa Thomas Pooley / 29. Connecting intergenerational voices: Curricula to foster the wellbeing of young children and elders Rachel Heydon, Lori McKee, & Susan O’Neill / 30. Singing and elders: Toward a life experience approach Lisa Crawford, Eun Cho, and Beatriz Ilari / 31. Singing my way back to you: Mapping the learning journey of persons with dementia through singing in an intergenerational choir Carol Beynon & Jennifer Lang / 32. Nurturing voices in intergenerational choral programs: The singing voice as voice of agency Jennifer Lang / 33. Multigenerational singing in a francophone minority setting Josée Benoît & Marie-Josée Vignola / Conclusion: Singing and wellbeing – From research to advocacy Annabel J. Cohen & Rachel Heydon
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rechoreographing Learning
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the mind-body dichotomy in movement and dance.This book includes a description of the often-forgotten kinesthetic sense, body awareness, somatic practices, body-based way of thinking, mental imagery, nonverbal communication, human empathy, and symbol systems, what occurs in the brain during learning, and why and how movement and dance should be part of school curricula. This exploration arguers that becoming more aware of bodily sensations serves as a basis for knowing, communicating, learning, and teaching through movement and dance.This book will be of great interest to scholars and students interested in teaching methodology and for courses in physical education, dance, and education.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorPrefaceChapter 1: Combatting the Mind-Body DichotomyA Discussion of the Mind-Body DichotomyMaking the Case for the Body Basis of Knowing—PioneersAccessing the Body Way of KnowingExploration ExperiencesChapter 2: Sensory Reception and Their Contributions to Body KnowledgeHuman Sensory SystemsHuman Sensation and the Mind-Body ConnectionApplications to Learning Movement and DanceExploration ExperiencesChapter 3: Connections between Body, Brain, Mind, and ThinkingThe Body Way of KnowingThe Role of AttentionMental ImageryExploration ExperiencesChapter 4: The Role of the Body in Interpersonal Connections and CommunicationsIntroductionEmpathyNonverbal CommunicationSymbolic CommunicationExploration Experiences Chapter 5: The Body, Movement, Dance, and LearningPopular Learning TheoriesCreativityLearning through the ArtsExploration ExperiencesChapter 6: In Conclusion...Further EvidenceFuture ConsiderationsRecommendationsDiscussionGlossaryIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Care Aesthetics
Book SynopsisWhat if the work of a nurse, physio, or homecare worker was designated an art, so that the qualities of the experiences they create became understood as aesthetic qualities? What if the interactions created by artists, directors, dancers, or workshop facilitators were understood as works of care? Care Aesthetics is the first full-length book to explore these questions and examine the work of carer artists and artist carers to make the case for the importance of valuing and supporting aesthetically caring relations across multiple aspects of our lives.Theoretically and practically, the book outlines the implications of care aesthetics for the socially engaged arts field and health and social care, and for acts of aesthetic care in the everyday. Part 1 of the book outlines the approaches to aesthetics and to care theory that are necessary to make and defend the concept of care aesthetics. Part 2 then tests this through practice, examining socially engaged arts and hTable of ContentsPart 1: Care Aesthetics 1. What is the aesthetics of care aesthetics? 2. What is the care of care aesthetics? Part 2: Care Aesthetics in Practice 3. Careful Art 4. Artful Care Everyday Care Aesthetics
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Taylor & Francis The Performance Studies Reader
Book SynopsisSince its first publication in 2004, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies. Now in its fourth edition, it continues to offer an unparalleled selection of work by the foremost scholars in this continually evolving field, offering a stimulating introduction to the crucial debates of performance studies. These critical and theoretical contributions are joined in this edition by 23 new chapters, bringing the collection up to date with current discourse and ideas, and significantly expanding the range of subjects and authors represented. Each essay includes contextual headnotes from the editors, to introduce students to the writer and their impact on the field. Newly added to this edition are contributions from: Swati Arora, Sara Ahmed, Sarah Bay-Cheng, Claire Bishop, Felipe Cervera and Theron Schmidt and Hannah Schwadron, Anita E. Cherian and Gargi Bharadwaj, Thomas DeFrantz, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Tracy C. Da
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Dance Festivals in the Former
Book SynopsisThis book expands the understanding of conditions defining the creation and circulation of contemporary dance that differ across Europe. It focuses on festival-making connected with the Balkan regional project âNomad Dance Academyâ (NDA), and highlights collective approaches to sustain a theorisation of festivals using the concepts of dissensus and imperceptible politics. Drawing from anthropological methods, three festivals PLESkavica, Slovenia; Kondenz, Serbia and LocoMotion, North Macedonia, are explored through social, political and historical currents affecting curatorial practice. This book closely follows how festival-makers navigate the values of international development that during and after the Yugoslav wars looked to art as part of peacekeeping and nation-building processes. This coincided with increasing discourse and practices of contemporary dance that gained momentum in the 1980s alongside European festivalisation. I show how contemporary dance a
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Trauma and Embodied Healing in Dramatherapy
Book SynopsisThis edited volume explores the singularity of embodiment and somatic approaches in the healing of trauma from a dramatherapy, theatre and performance perspective.Collating voices from across the fields of dramatherapy, theatre and performance, this book examines how different interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches offer unique and unexplored perspectives on the body as a medium for the exploration, expression and resolution of chronic, acute and complex trauma as well as collective and intergenerational trauma. The diverse chapters highlight how the intersection between dramatherapy and body-based approaches in theatre and performance offers additional opportunities to explore and understand the creative, expressive and imaginative capacity of the body, and its application to the healing of trauma.The book will be of particular interest to dramatherapists and other creative and expressive arts therapists. It will also appeal to counsellors, psychotherapists, p
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Exposing the Chasms in Voice Pedagogy
Book SynopsisThis concise book critically examines the intersection of power, privilege, and classical music in higher education through an extensive study of the experiences, training, and background of teachers of musical theatre singing.Mapping the divides within the voice pedagogy field, it shows how despite the growth of non-classical programmes, the teaching of vocal music in the United States continues to be structurally dominated by Western classical music. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and observations of practicing instructors, the author argues that current voice pedagogy training's classical-centred approach fails to prepare instructors to teach the range of vocal styles needed in the contemporary musical theatre profession. Combining a critical review of existing practices with proposals for change, this book sheds light on a key problem in voice pedagogy today.Based on field research and drawing on both Shulman's signature pedagogies theory and Bourdieu's concepts ofTable of ContentsChapter 1 Marble BuildingsChapter 2 Behind Closed DoorsChapter 3 What Was Going On In Musical Theatre One-To-One Singing Pedagogy In Universities?Chapter 4 Where Did You Learn To Teach?Chapter 5 Deep Structures Of Voice Pedagogy In Universities In The United StatesChapter 6 Habitus And Capitals Of Musical Theatre Singing TeachersChapter 7 The Field of Voice PedagogyChapter 8 Turning The Corner?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Improvised Dance
Book SynopsisThis book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal dimensions of practice. Mobilising the languages and conceptual frameworks of theories of affect, embodied cognition, somatics, and dance, this book illustrates the work of specialist improvisers who occupy divergent positions within the complex field of improvised dance. It offers an alternative narrative of the history and current practice of Western improvised dance centred on the epistemology of its (in)corporeal knowledges, which are elusive yet vital to the refinement of expertise. Written for both a disciplinary-specific and interdisciplinary audience, this book will interest dance scholars, students, and practising artists.Trade Review‘This is an impressive account of western improvised dance that remains loyal to the practice, while seeking to amplify its self-understanding. Wait's commitment to the concept of affect and its resonance runs through this book as a core principle, offering a basis for thinking through that which is distinctive about western improvised dance.’Philipa Rothfield, honorary staff member in Philosophy and Politics at La Trobe University, Australia, and honorary professor in Dance and Philosophy of the Body at the University of Southern Denmark.‘Wait embraces the complex field of contemporary, western improvised dance, in what I’d call a cartography, a genealogy, and an analysis of local practices or case studies. Through a major compilation of sources and authors, Wait offers alternative conceptual models to re-categorize practices and escape dualisms. This book makes an important contribution to dance studies.’Isabelle Ginot, Professor in the Dance Department at Université Paris 8 – Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France.Table of Contents1. Western Improvised Dance: Practices, Pedagogies, and Language 2. Dewey and the Pre-history of Western Improvisation 3. Embodied Consciousness 4. Resonance of Affect and Immanent Evaluation 5. The Aesthetics of an Ethics of Being 6. Cultivating Movement Systems 7. Prohibitive and Emancipative Self-Surveillance
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Taylor & Francis Sound Design for the Visual Storyteller
Book SynopsisSound Design for the Visual Storyteller is an overview of the sound design process for the beginner filmmaker or storyteller, providing the foundational knowledge needed to succeed at utilizing and designing sound for visual stories, films, and even podcasts.With a focus on television and film, alongside references to podcast, theatre, event, and game sound design, this all-in-one overview begins with the fundamentals of sound and the structure of a professional sound design team, before exploring the practical topics of post-production, creative workflows, and distribution. Supported by a plethora of audio and video examples to demonstrate key concepts, this book guides aspiring sound designers on the power and production value of the well-conceived soundtrack and showcases some of the most effective techniques for getting there.This is an ideal introduction for storytellers working in a range of contexts, including filmmakers, sound designers, and sound editor
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Female Dancer
Book SynopsisThe ''Female'' Dancer aims to question dancers' relationships with female' through the examination and understandings of biological, anatomical, scientific, and self-social identity. The volume gathers voices of dance scientists, dance scholars, somatic practitioners, and dance artist-educators, to discuss some of the complexities of identities, assumptions and perceptions of a female dancing body in an intersectional and practically focused manner.The book weaves a journey between scientific and somatic approaches to dance and to dancing. Part I: ''Bodily Knowledge'' explores body image, hormones and puberty, and discussions around somatic responses to the concept of the gaze. Part II: ''Moving through Change'', continues to look at strength, musculature, and female fragility, with chapters interrogating practice around strength training, the dancer as an athlete, the role of fascia, the pelvic floor, pregnancy and post-partum experiences and eco-somatic perceptions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Teaching Dance Improvisation
Book SynopsisTeaching Dance Improvisation serves as an introduction to, and a springboard for the author's theories, practices, and curriculum building of dance improvisation as a technique. By taking a similar approach to teaching ballet, modern, jazz, tap, or hip hop, this book supplies its reader with an easy-to-follow roadmap in order to begin building and incorporating dance improvisation into dance studios/classrooms and curriculums.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lessons in Creativity from Musical Theatre
Book SynopsisLessons in Creativity from Musical Theatre Characters marries art and science with a new and exciting collaboration between one of the world's leading creativity scholars and an internationally renowned musical theatre composer. This book will help readers tap into their creativity and unleash their own creative potential as they start their careers.Blending cutting-edge research, juicy anecdotes, lived experience, hands-on activities, and gentle advice, authors James C. Kaufman and Dana P. Rowe take readers on a journey to explore and enhance their own creativity. Each chapter addresses a key aspect of creativity, from how to overcome blocks to understanding one's personal strengths all through the lens of Musical Theatre characters along with insights from those within the industry. Kaufman and Rowe shatter creativity myths (such as the tormented artist or having one big break) that may be harming the reader's potential growth. Probing questions, fun quizzesTable of ContentsOverture: Waiting in the Wings PART I Your Creative Spark 1. Making Your Entrance: Finding Your Original Voice 2. Hitting Your Mark: The Importance of Appropriateness 3. Thinking On Your Feet: The Creative Process 4. Finding Your Light: Your Creative Aspirations PART II Your Creative Tools 5. Keeping It Fresh: Staying Open to New Things 6. What’s Your Motivation?: Passion and Balance 7. Showing Them What You’ve Got: The Creative Self 8. Crying on Cue: Monitoring Your Mood PART III Your Creative Life 9. Leaving the Drama on the Stage: The Myth of the Mad Genius 10. Taking Your Show on the Road: Know When to Make a Change 11. Dreaming Your Dream: Your Journey of Success Exit Music: The Show Must Go On
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing Choreography
Book SynopsisA new contribution to studies in choreography, Writing Choreography: Textualities of and beyond Dance focuses upon language and writing-based approaches to choreographing from the perspectives of artists and researchers active in the Nordic and Oceanic contexts.Through the contributions of 15 danceartists, choreographers, dramaturges, writers, interdisciplinary artists and artistresearchers, the volume highlights diverse textual choreographic processes and outcomes arguing for their relevance to present-day practices of expanded choreography. The anthology introduces some Western trends related to utilizing writing, text and language in choreographic processes. In its focus on art-making processes, it likewise offers insight into how performance can be transcribed into writing, how practices of writing choreograph and how choreography can be a process of writing with. Readers, such as dancers, choreographers, students in higher education of these fields as well as re
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Taylor & Francis Fabrication for Theatre and Entertainment Wood
Book SynopsisFabrication for Theatre and Entertainment: Wood and Fiber Products is a complete reference guide to the process of working with wood products for scenic and properties construction for theatre and entertainment arts.This book covers lumber product characteristics, layout methods for fabricators, and the tooling and machinery used to fabricate with lumber products. While there are references that demonstrate common scenic construction methods, furniture joinery, and commercial construction, this book also introduces methods for calibrating machinery and accurately configuring them for various construction tasks, helping entertainment fabricators ensure a repeatable accurate finished product. Readers will be introduced to a wide range of tools and techniques, which will allow them to tackle both common issues and new challenges creatively and effectively.The book is intended as a resource for technical designers, technical directors, shop managers, master carpente
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Taylor & Francis The SenseAbility Ensembleâs Guide to Creating Theatre for Audiences that are Neurodiverse
The Sense-Ability Ensembleâs Guide to Creating Theatre for Audiences That Are Neurodiverse is a practical handbook that explores how to create theatre for audiences that are neurodiverse.This book explores the journey of the Sense-Ability Ensemble in its quest to create theatre from the ground up for audiences that are neurodiverse. It demonstrates how to embark on this work and move from a sensory friendly model that adapts work to make it inclusive, to designing work that is created with this specific audience in mind. This is accomplished through highlighting recommended practices such as using live music, puppetry, one-on-one audience member/actor interaction, exploring design considerations, sensory engagement, length, actor/staff training, non-linear storytelling, the use of social narratives, and partnering with special education and occupational therapy professionals. It also offers practical suggestions for touring this theatre model, providing sample forms an
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Taylor & Francis Doing and Using Research in Arts and Cultural Management
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Taylor & Francis Navarasas Autoethnodrama DIY Immersive Theatre
Book SynopsisNavarasas, Autoethnodrama & DIY Immersive Theatre is composed of two interwoven texts, each in dialogue with the other.Part I presents a distinctive autoethnodrama, dramatizing nearly two decades of Dineshâs experiences as a theatre maker, researcher, and educator in conflict zones. This section offers readers an interactive and experiential way to engage with Dineshâs ideas and is aimed particularly at emerging practice-based researchers who are considering creating work in/about/within fraught contexts. Part II provides analytical, visual renderings of the evolution of Dineshâs thinking around the five WsâWho, What, When, Where, and Why. Drawing on her prior work in Kashmir and her ongoing engagements at San Quentin State Prison, this section of the book delves into the complexities of the researcher-practitioner experience in settings shaped by violence and trauma. By using navarasas, autoethnodrama, and DIY immersive theatre as her conceptual framew
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Taylor & Francis From Object to Performance
Book SynopsisFrom Object to Performance identifies, analyses, and critically contemplates the advent of a âœperformance mentalityâ and the gradual maturation of a âœperformative turnâ in Israeli art.Manifested in the transition from object-oriented art to performance-based art, this cultural moment reflected both the exposure and responsiveness of young Israeli artists to experimental currents in North American and Western European art and these artistsâ need to respond to acute social and political conditions, questioning Israeli national myths and collectivist ideals. From Object to Performance offers the first comprehensive exploration of the origins of action and performance art in Israel, contributes an important component to unravelling the global enigma of performance art histories, and considers the historiographic challenges encountered when studying the emergence and early years of performance-based practices. This book will appeal to students and scholars of performance studies, art history, cultural studies, and Israel studies, as well as to curators of contemporary art and performance, and artists. The book should also be of interest to the growing number of theater and art historians who research the beginnings and development of action and performance art.
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Taylor & Francis The Thriving Creative
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Taylor & Francis What Music Schools Learned from the Pandemic
Book SynopsisThe pandemic and social unrest during the year of 2020 set in motion sudden and drastic changes to how collegiate music was taught. Teachers and students experienced the most dramatic disruption in the history of the music teaching profession.This book examines the state of collegiate music teaching prior to 2020 and then captures these radical and sudden changes through the eyes of music conservatory leaders from around the world. These leaders, who had a comprehensive view of what was unfolding, described what happened during this once-in-a-century event.From their insights, we see what worked and what didnât. The book then examines what this experience means, or could mean, for the future of music in higher education.
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Taylor & Francis AI AR and VR in Theatre and Performance
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Taylor & Francis Writing Forward
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Taylor & Francis African Urban Creativity
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Cambridge University Press Antigone Interrupted
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Cambridge University Press Aeschylus
Many themes of Aeschylus' Suppliants resonate strongly today, yet this edition is the first since 1889 to provide an English commentary based on the Greek text and remain accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduate students. The introduction discusses the myth, the lost companion plays, the underlying social issues, and other topics.
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism and Theatrical Experience
Book SynopsisBringing together studies in theater history, print culture, and literature, this book offers a new consideration of Romantic-period writing in Britain. Recovering a wide range of theatrical criticism from newspapers and periodicals, some of it overlooked since its original publication in Regency London, Jonathan Mulrooney explores new contexts for the work of the actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats. Kean''s ongoing presence as a figure in the theatrical news presented readers with a provocative re-imagining of personal subjectivity and a reworking of the British theatrical tradition. Hazlitt and Keats, in turn, imagined the essayist and the poet along similar theatrical lines, reframing Romantic prose and poetics. Taken together, these case studies illustrate not only theater''s significance to early nineteenth-century Londoners, but also the importance of theater''s textual legacies for our own re-assessment of ''Romanticism'' as a historical and culturalTrade Review'The value of (this book) is in its meticulous historicism, and its careful attention to the rarely acknowledged role of theatre and theatrical affairs in the lives of its authors.' Chris Townsend, Times Literary Supplement'Mulrooney makes a valuable contribution to Romantic-period studies through his sustained attention to the ways in which public and private experiences were transformed by both print and performance … This is a beautifully written and important book.' Susan Valladares, The Review of English Studies'This truly important book - generous in its acknowledgment of other scholars and energizing in its vivid, sharp, entertaining style - expands our sense of Romantic era theater and print culture, advances our sense of Cockneyism in the period, and offers fresh, powerful accounts of Haz-litt and Keats.' Jeffrey N. Cox, The Wordsworth CircleTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Making of British Theater Audiences: 1. Theater and the daily news; 2. Britain's theatrical press 1800–1830; Part II. Theater and Late Romanticism: 3. Edmund Kean's controversy; 4. Hazlitt's romantic occasionalism; 5. Keats, Kean, and the poetics of interruption; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Structuring Drama Work 100 Key Conventions for
Book SynopsisStructuring Drama Work is the only drama resource that explores 100 dramatic conventions and techniques and provides ideas for how to practise them. This book explains dramatic conventions and what they do, explores how dramatic techniques can be used, provides cultural connections and global contexts and includes examples of the techniques in the context of plays and texts. The compact size and simple format make this book convenient and easy to use. Suitable for IGCSE students up to A Level, IB Diploma and beyond, this resource will give inspiration and ideas to students and save teachers valuable planning time by providing numerous examples in a global context.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1: A guide to dramatic conventions, Section A: Context-building action, Circle of life, Circular drama, Collective character, Collective drawing, Commission, Defining space, Diaries, letters, journals, messages, First impressions, Games, Guided tour, Making maps and diagrams, Objects of character, Role-on-the-wall, Simulations, Soundtracking, Still-image, Theory building, The iceberg, The ripple, Unfinished materials, Section B: Narrative action, A day in the life, Critical events, Everywoman, Good angel/bad angel, Gossip circle, Hot-seating, Interviews and interrogations, Mantle of the expert, Meetings, Noises off, Overheard conversations, Reportage, Spotlighting, Tag role, Teacher-in-role, Telephone or radio conversation, Timeline, Time will tell, Will they, won't they?, Section C: Poetic action, Action narration, Alter-ego, Analogy, Behind the scene, Caption-making, Ceremony, Chamber theatre, Come on down!, Commedia dell'arte, Cross-cutting, Ducumentary, Flashback, Folk-forms, Forum-theatre, Genre switch, Gestus, Living newspaper, Masks, Mimed activity, Montage, Physical theatre, Play within a play, Prepared roles, Reader's theatre, Re-enactment, Reminiscence Theatre, Revue, Ritual, Role reversal, Shape-shifting, Small-group play-making, Soundscape, TV times, Verbatim theatre, Section D: Reflective action, Are you moved? Builders of bridges, Character box, Choral speak, Empathy knots, Finger ballet, Gestalt, Gifting, Giving witness, Group sculpture, Harmony, If I were you..., Marking the moment, Moment of truth, Narration, Postbox, Power line, Space between, Spectrum of difference, Taking sides, This way/that way, Thought shower, Thought-tracking, Voices in the head, Wall of China, Walls have ears, Window on the world, Part 2: Structuring drama for learning opportunities, Part 3: Theatre as a learning process.
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Cambridge University Press Theatres of Feeling
Book SynopsisTheatre and theatregoing was central to the cultural life of later eighteenth-century Britain. In this engaging work, Jean I. Marsden explores the playhouse as a source of emotion during a period when the ability to feel demonstrated moral worth. Using first-hand accounts, reviews, and illustrations to complement the drama of the era, Marsden examines why both critics and audiences elevated the theatre above the pulpit and how they experienced the plays and performances that they witnessed. Tears and even fainting fits were a common reaction to powerful productions, and playwrights sought to harness this emotion. The book explores this intersection of text, performance, and affect in a series of case studies of plays exploring British liberty, empire and the evils of antisemitism. With a focus on emotional response, Theatres of Feeling delivers a new approach to dramatic literature and performance, one that moves beyond more limited studies of text or performance.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Divine sympathy: theatre, connection, and virtue; 2. Dangerous pleasures: theatregoing in the eighteenth century; 3. Roman fathers and Grecian daughters: tragedy and the nation; 4. Performing the West Indies: comedy, feeling, and British identity; 5. The moral muse: comedy as social engineering; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Strolling Players of Empire
Book SynopsisWhy did Britons get up a play wherever they went? Kathleen Wilson reveals how the performance of English theater and a theatricalized way of viewing the world shaped the geopolitics and culture of empire in the long eighteenth century. Ranging across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans to encompass London, Kingston and Calcutta, Fort Marlborough in Sumatra, St. Helena and Port Jackson in New South Wales as well as London and provincial towns, she shows how Britons on the move transformed peripheries into historical stages where alternative collectivities were enacted, imagined and lived. Men and women of various ethnicities, classes and legal statuses produced and performed English theater in the world, helping to consolidate a national and imperial culture. The theater of empire also enabled non-British people to adapt or interpret English cultural tradition through their own performances, as Englishness became also a production of non-English peoples across the globe.Trade Review'The vibrancy of Britain's domestic theaters during the long eighteenth century has long been established. But in this rich, sophisticated, and adventurously researched book, Kathleen Wilson excavates theater's importance for Britain's overseas empire. Ranging from St. Helena to Jamaica, and Sydney to Calcutta, she shows how a wide range of actors and impresarios used and invested in plays to communicate, to set out arguments, and to offer cultural and racial assertions. Strolling Players of Empire is an arresting and significant work.' Linda Colley, author of The Gun, The Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World'Both audiences and actors play a necessary role in the magic of theater. By reading old texts anew, and tracing lives and plays across a global stage from Kolkata to the Caribbean, Kathleen Wilson has changed how we understand eighteenth-century race and empire.' Tim Hitchcook, co-director of The Old Bailey Online.'Revealing for the first time the full scope of the globe-circling ambition of the English-speaking colonial theater, Kathleen Wilson also re-writes the history of the British Empire in the eighteenth century. Her stunning thesis is that theatrical and related kinds of public enactments did not merely reflect the expanding imperium but rather created it by enabling the performance of Englishness by people of all nations. Sustaining its bold claims by making both new archival discoveries and original arguments, Strolling Players of Empire raises the stakes for what research in the field will be for decades to come.' Joseph Roach, author of Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic PerformanceTable of ContentsPrologue: Strollers without Borders; Introduction: Britain's Theatrical Empire; Part I. Playing: 1. Peripheralizing the Spheres: Theatrical Assemblages of the Imperial Provinces; 2. Rowe's Fair Penitent as Global History: Colonial Family Strategies and the Imperatives of Nation; 3. The Lure of the Other: Jews, Nabobs and Enslaved Africans in a Transcolonial Imaginary; Part II. Theatres of Empire: 4. Performances of Freedom: Jamaican Maroons in Imperial Transit; 5. Blackface Empire: or, the Slavery Meridian; 6. Zanga's Colony: Revenge in Sydney; Part III. East India Company Peripheries and the History of Modernity; 7. Performing The Wonder in Sumatra: Theatrical Ethnography in a New World History; 8. In Conclusion: Napoleonic Gothic, or St. Helena as Center of the British World.
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Cambridge University Press Brecht and Tragedy
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging, detailed and engaging study of Brecht''s complex relationship with Greek tragedy and tragic tradition argues that this is fundamental for understanding his radicalism. Featuring an extensive discussion of The Antigone of Sophocles (1948) and further related works (the Antigone model book and the Small Organon for the Theatre), this monograph includes the first-ever publication of the complete set of colour photographs taken by Ruth Berlau. This is complemented by comparatist explorations of many of Brecht''s own plays as his experiments with tragedy conceptualized as the ''big form''. The significance for Brecht of the Greek tragic tradition is positioned in relation to other formative influences on his work (Asian theatre, Naturalism, comedy, Schiller and Shakespeare). Brecht emerges as a theatre artist of enormous range and creativity, who has succeeded in re-shaping and re-energizing tragedy and has carved paths for its continued artistic and political relevance.Trade Review'This is a book that should have been written long ago but it is really only someone like Revermann, with equal grasp of Greek tragedy, tragedy as a diachronic form (rather than a mode), and a deep knowledge of the history of modern European performance traditions, who could write it.' Fiona Macintosh, Director of The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), University of Oxford'Martin Revermann's new book on Brecht deserves a place of honor at the very center of contemporary studies of twentieth-century German drama and more widely of twentieth-century European literature as a whole. It is extraordinary how fundamentally Revermann has been able to enrich and transform our understanding of Brecht, in part by discovering and fruitfully interpreting so much new material. I do not doubt that this book will turn out to be as much a milestone in Brecht studies as Revermann's work on Greek drama has been in that field.' Glenn W. Most, Professor of Greek Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa'… a valuable, erudite, and inspiring study of Brecht and tragedy.' Silvija Jestrovic, European Association for the study of theatre and performanceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Radicalism, traditionalism, eristics; Part I. Point of contact 1948: 1. 1948 – A year of krisis; 2. Professing non-Aristotelianism: Brecht's Small Organon for the Theatre (1948); 3. Utilizing Greek tragedy: Brecht's The Antigone of Sophocles (1948); 4. The making of a model: Antigonemodell 1948; Part II. Positionings: 5. The other Other: Brecht's Asia; 6. Naturalism and related diseases; 7. Schiller: rival and inspiration; 8. Comedy and the comic; 9. Shakespeare and the road beyond tragedy; Part III. Comparatist explorations: 10. The tragedy of Mother Courage; 11. Brechtian chorality; 12. Threepenny Opera: the view from below; 13. Appellative anti-tragedy: gods, parody and closure in The Good Person of Sezuan; 14. Mahagonny: rise and fall of a dystopian city; 15. Anti-tragic justice: The Measure; 16. Heroism and its discontents I: the epic tragedy The Judith of Shimoda – expansion, commentary, metapoetics; 17. Heroism and its discontents II: Galileo, a tragic hero of science?; Conclusion: Brecht and tragedy – pulling threads together.
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Cambridge University Press Molière in Context
Book SynopsisThis definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Equally thorough and wide-ranging, it is an exceptional tribute to the premier French dramatist on the 400th anniversary of his birth.Table of ContentsBiographical preface Georges Forestier; Part 1. Socio-political Context: 1. A Bourgeois at court Mathieu da Vinhae; 2. The religious climate Julia Prest; 3. Medicine Valerie Worth-Stylianou; 4. Family law Janine Lanza; 5. Women Wendy Perkins; 6. Gender, masculinity and cross-dressing Joseph Harris; Part 2. Intellectual and Artistic Context: 7. Philosophical influences Jean-Luc Robin; 8. Molière and classical theatre Michael Call; 9. The survival of medieval and renaissance professional practices Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès; 10. Commedia dell'arte Claude Bourqui; 11. The literary establishment Richard Maber; 12. Are the Précieuses only ridicules? Molière, salon culture and the shaping of France's collective memory Faith E. Beasley; Part 3. Theatrical Context (Paris): 13. Molière's theatres in Paris Philippe Cornuaille; 14. Stage design in Paris Philippe Cornuaille; 15. Company administration Jan Clarke; 16. The theatre industry and cultures of consumption Sabine Chaouche; 17. Acting style Sabine Chaouche; Part 4. Theatrical Context (Court): 18. Colbert, cultural policy and the propaganda of spectacle Georgia Cowart; 19. The decors of comedy-ballet: from the 'Songe de Vaux' to the 'Rêve de Versailles' Marie-Claude Canova-Green; 20. Court performances and their audiences Laura Naudeix; 21. Music Anne Piéjus; 22. The livrets of Molière's plays Marine Roussillon; Part 5. Reception and dissemination: 23. Audience laughter Coline Piot; 24. The triumph of publicity Christophe Schuwey; 25. Molière and his critics: the 'Querelles' Jeanne-Marie Hostiou; 26. Molière and his publishers Michael Call; 27. Molière In print Michael Hawcroft; 28. Early modern English translations of Molière Suzanne Jones; Part 6. Afterlives: 29. Molière at the hôtel Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française: the early years Jan Clarke; 30. Comedy after Molière Guy Spielmann; 31. Molière as national hero Mechele Leon; 32. Molière in performance: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century productions Noël Peacock; 33. Molière on the modern Anglophone stage Cédric Ploix; 34. Who and what is Molière? The film director's perspective Noël Peacock; 35. Molière in the Arab world Angela Daiana Langone; 36. Digital Molière Claude Bourqui.
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Cambridge University Press Criticism Performance and the Passions in the
Book SynopsisEighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments of larger sequential transformation. Through a recovery of this perspective, scholars of theatre and literary culture gain renewed understanding of performance, the passions, and criticism in the 1700s.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre
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