Dance Studies

A richly detailed history of jazz music and jazz dance, the 20th-Anniversary Edition of Brotherhood in Rhythm brings the Nicholas Brothers' act to ...

Reducere. A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. ...

Dance, whether considered as an art form or embodied social practice, as product or process, is a prime subject for cultural analysis. This title b...

Reducere. Embedded within the dances of Africa are repositories of historical narratives, invaluable insights on the mindset of ancient and contemporary peop...

Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok explores how hip hop culture-principally music and dance-is used to construct and perform...

DescriptionMeke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated...

DescriptionTen international dramaturg-scholars advance proposals that reset notions of agency in contemporary dance creation. Dramaturgy becomes d...

This book confronts and criticises the way in which the dominating concept of performance has been used in Art Theory, Performance- and Dance Studi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The founder of the Dance Psychology Lab, Dr. Peter Lovatt, reveals the surprising cognitive and emotional benefits of dancing and prescriptive ways...

Reducere. In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among...

DescriptionThe intertribal pow-wow is the most widespread venue for traditional Indian music and dance in North America. Now in paperback, Tara Bro...

Reducere. Edgar Degas is famous for his paintings of ballerinas, and that's what first attracts Kristin to his artwork. But as she studies him for her report...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

Reducere. BodyStories is a book that engages the general reader as well as the serious student of anatomy. Thirty-one days of learning sessions heighten awar...

Reducere. An ethnographic account of gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City. "Impossible Dance is a highly accessible, original and e...

DescriptionAfrican American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discip...

A far-reaching and engaging overview of the role of narrative in dance and theatre performance, bringing together chapters written by an internatio...

A far-reaching and engaging overview of the role of narrative in dance and theatre performance, bringing together chapters written by an internatio...

Examining theater, performance art, music, sports, dance, and photography, the contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how th...

The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next gener...

DescriptionOne of the few studies that cover both Broadway and Hollywood musicals, this book explores a majority of the most famous musicals over t...

Introduces the key elements and approaches in the study of theatre and performance, covering drama, music theatre and dance. Provides thorough cove...

Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art...

A global history of couple dancing in commercial venues in the era of the two world wars. -- .Publisher: Manchester University PressIllustration(s)...

DescriptionIn What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the first time, a rigorous theory of embodied technique as knowledge. He argues that view...

Description For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the 'land of music'. But just how was this reputation established and transform...

aeo A highly innovative contribution towards the study of popular culture which focuses on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and r...

Designing Interactions for Music and Sound presents multidisciplinary research and case studies in electronic music production, dance-composer coll...

Learning Movements: New Perspectives of Movement Education provides the societal and epistemological background for these new approaches and is ess...

This innovative work introduces the interdisciplinary field of research of kinesemiotics, offering a new adaptable model and means of analysis for ...

How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World foregrounds the importance of embodiment as a means of surviving the disorientation of our twenty-...

This extensively revised and expanded fifth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to...

The dynamic course of Afro-American literature from oppression through protest to liberation is depicted in the anthology. Long and Collier have ad...

In Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably linked to language and belief, proposing instead that ...

The book combines case studies with diverse groups across the country that are using different media - including mural arts, dance, and video - wit...

Reducere. The French police call on the Skeleton Detective when a dog digs up some human bones: "Terrific" --Publishers Weekly Les-Eyzies-de-Tayac is known f...

This is the first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation. Amanda Eubanks Winkl...

Reducere. Poetry. African American Studies. Peformance Studies. TWERK unveils an identity shaped by popular media and history, code switching and cultural in...

DescriptionSituated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to bec...

Thoroughly updated for its third edition with the latest research in the field, this innovative text delivers an apt and comprehensive introduction...

Reducere. No matter what you know about Lewis and Clark, the Hopi Snake Dance, the occupation of Wounded Knee village, or the Seminole Freedmen claim, you ha...

The Sufis are as diverse as the countries in which they've flourished--from Morocco to India to China--and as varied as their distinctive forms of ...

Reducere. Need a break? Hop to it The hundred poems in this book will get you moving from nose to toes You can climb like a cat, sign the phrase watch me, or...

Reducere. Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies....

Reducere. (Piano Collection). ANONYMOUS: Minuet in C minor, BWV Appendix 121 * C.P.E. BACH: March in G Major, BWV Appendix 124 * J. S. BACH: Bouree from Lute...

Reducere. Think of your local church. Without art--music, song, dance, etc.--it would be a much poorer place. But if protestants have any vision for the arts...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Matthias KamannAre you going to travel to Sweden? Or moving there for your studies, work or love? Are you afraid of a Swedi...

In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance...

DescriptionBringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the syner...

Reducere. Johann Joachim Quantz's On Playing Flute has long been recognized as one of the most significant and in-depth treatises on eighteenth-century music...

Reducere. Gallop across prairies with a daring ten-year-old Lakota girl, laugh at her misadventures, cringe at her narrow escapes from disaster. Experience L...

Reducere. For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon...

Contributor(s): Author: Cary GillettAuthor: Jay Sheehan"Our theater world is so much better with this book in it, and even better with Cary and Jay...

Reducere. Behind our therapy methods and interventions, behind our day-to-day interactions, lie feeling attitudes -"METASKILLS"- which strongly affect our wo...

Reducere. The unusual harmonies and forms in the music of Frederick Delius (1862-1934) set the English composer's work apart from the main currents of musica...

Reducere. DescriptionEurythmy is a modern movement art developed by Rudolph Steiner in which the sounds of language and music are expressed through gesture a...

Reducere. The authors in this volume share exemplary arts-integration practices across the K-8 curriculum. Rather than providing formulas or scripts to be fo...

Reducere. PROSEIn 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented t...

This collection of 36 monographs serves as a well-rounded introduction to the Law of Thelema. ?Lapis Philosophorum? redefines the magical philosoph...

Reducere. Lost Orchard: Prose and Poetry from the Kirkland College Community (SUNY Press, 2014)featured a diverse collection of poems, short stories, novel e...

Reducere. This is an exceptional anthology of 24 stories about the women in the Bible. Drawing from the ancient tradition of midrash, the author brings to li...

DescriptionOne Day, One Night offers a riveting account of the challenges, the adventure, the wonder of life at the South Pole Station. This work o...

Prepare to be baffled with The Big Book of Paranormal! Dive deep into urban legends, creepy hauntings, and tales of the unexplained with the Big Bo...

A young man's destined quest becomes a dance with the devil in a mesmerizing retelling of the Faust legend by the bestselling author of the Hangman...

Reducere. (Piano Collection). J.S. BACH: French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816; Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775; Invention No. 3 in D Major, BWV 774; In...