Performing Arts category: 25753 books

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Can’t Stand Still

Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance

by Michael K. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019

Born in 1893 into the only African American family in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, Emmanuel Taylor Gordon (1893–1971) became an internationally famous singer in the 1920s at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. With his musical partner, J. Rosamond Johnson, Gordon was a crucially important figure...
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by Pouran Lashini Abeyan
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017

As a traditional Islamic artist, my goal is to inspire and educate the readers if they want to understand religious art in general and specifically Islamic art. They need to understand and feel their spirit as how they felt and understand it. Knowing Islamic aesthetic was related to principles, so...
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Performing Dream Homes

Theater and the Spatial Politics of the Domestic Sphere

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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019

This anthology explores how theatre and performance use home as the prism through which we reconcile shifts in national, cultural, and personal identity. Whether examining parlor dramas and kitchen sink realism, site-specific theatre, travelling tent shows, domestic labor, border performances, fences,...
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by Pascale Charhon
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016

Gender relates to the most intimate part of the human self – identity. The individual identity is in constant tension with the social self, and the arts bring this tension to light – be it through autobiographical elements or by reflecting the situation of larger communities or society. Arts that...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018

This book reflects the changes in technology and educational trends (cross-disciplinary learning, entrepreneurship, first-year learning programs, critical writing requirements, course assessment, among others) that have pushed theatre educators to innovate, question, and experiment with new teaching...
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Performing Remembering

Women's Memories of War in Vietnam

by Rivka Syd Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018

This book explores the performances and politics of memory among a group of women war veterans in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Through ethnographic, oral history-based research, it connects the veterans’ wartime histories, memory politics, performance practices, recollections of imprisonment and torture,...
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Accomodating the Lively Arts

An Architect's View

by Martin Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

Architect Martin Bloom has written Accommodating the Lively Arts to encourage the building and preservation of spaces that can nurture live performance in an age increasingly threatened by the steady encroachment of simulated electronic entertainments. This book is essential reading for anyone who...
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Worldmaking

Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity

by Dorinne Kondo
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018

In this bold, innovative work, Dorinne Kondo theorizes the racialized structures of inequality that pervade theater and the arts. Grounded in twenty years of fieldwork as dramaturg and playwright, Kondo mobilizes critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and dramatic writing to trenchantly...
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by Chris Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

One basic problem facing most rapidly developing countries is the need to preserve good traditions, and at the same time graft upon them.That is why in Africa, for example, there are several cultural organizations. These encourage not only the local arts, but also widen the scope to include the arts...
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Mime the Gap

Techniques in Mime and Movement

by Richard Knight
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018

Mime the Gap: Techniques in Mime and Movement explores the physicality of movement in storytelling, offering new ideas about acting and performance, whilst encouraging a contemporary resurgence of this traditional performance art. With detailed, step-by-step instructions of basic to advanced mime...
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Dick Kinzel

Roller Coaster King of Cedar Point Amusement Point

by Tim O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015

Roller coasters took Dick Kinzel slowly to the top and a $1.24 billion acquisition ultimately lead to his direst years. During his 39-year career (25 as president and CEO) with Cedar Point and Cedar Fair parks, he built the world's first 200, 300, and 400-foot tall roller coasters. He is responsible...
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Artist Management

Agility in the Creative and Cultural Industries

by Guy Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

Artists are creative workers who drive growth in the creative and cultural industries. Managing artistic talent is a unique challenge, and this concise book introduces and analyses its key characteristics. Artist Management: Agility in the Creative and Cultural Industries makes a major contribution...
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by Lisa Holewa
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018

It's hard to imagine the film The Wizard of Oz without the "yellow" brick road or the "ruby" slippers. The memorable and distinctive use of color was made possible by a new technology called Technicolor. The vibrant colors showed that Oz was a very different place from Dorothy's...
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Contemporary Street Arts in Europe

Aesthetics and Politics

by S. Haedicke
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012

Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the site for audiences who experience it. This book looks at how the dynamic interrelationship of performance, participant and place creates a politicized aesthetic of public space that enables the public to rehearse democratic practices.
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