The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan 9780791432563, 9780791432556

Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts 9780822387442

Argues for the centrality of theater and performance in the American national imaginary.

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Performing Fantasy and Reality in Contemporary Culture 9781138088948, 9781315109541

We frequently engage with that which we consciously perceive not to be real, yet fantasy, despite its pervasive presence

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Performing Fantasy and Reality in Contemporary Culture 9781351613385, 9781315109541

We frequently engage with that which we consciously perceive not to be real, yet fantasy, despite its pervasive presence

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Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2002: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture (Obituaries in the Performing Arts) [Revised] 0786414642, 9780786414642, 9780786452071

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Performing Englishness: Identity and politics in a contemporary folk resurgence 9781526103543

Looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first

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Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture: An Illustrated Sourcebook 9780824874469

"This admirable and necessary volume allows the original writers to speak to us directly. Though all this is carefu

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Knowing in Performing: Artistic Research in Music and the Performing Arts 9783839452875

How can performing be transformed into cognition? Knowing in Performing describes dynamic processes of artistic knowledg

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The Performing Arts in a New Era 9780833030412, 0833030418, 0585388768

This book examines recent trends in the performing arts and discusses howthe arts are likely to evolve in the future. It

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Austronesian Soundscapes: Performing Arts in Oceania and Southeast Asia 9789048508112

In Austronesia—the region that stretches from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east—music plays a vital ro

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Bastard or Playmate?: Adapting Theatre, Mutating Media and Contemporary Performing Arts 9789048513178

This fascinating volume explores the theme of mutating and adapting media in its relation to theatre and performance. Br

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