Canadian Performing Arts Bundle

Canadian Performing Arts Bundle

Author: Michelle Labrèche-Larouche

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1459727932

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Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore the lives of some Canadian pioneers in the world of performing arts. Profiled are: Mary Pickford, the silent screen star of the 1920s; Emma Albani, a classical singer who reached the heights of fame in Europe; and John Grierson, a filmmaker responsible for setting up the National Film Board of Canada. Includes: Emma Albani John Grierson Mary Pickford


Services in Canada

Services in Canada

Author: W.R. Frisbee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1135184100

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First Published in 1990. The purpose of this special volume is to provide a ‘sampler’ of the service industries in Canada. The editors’ philosophy in inviting, reviewing and selecting contributions has been to provide materials which range from the general aggregate view through specific sector and industry developments to the micro operations management level. The collection is presented in this order: from macro overview to micro operations management.


The Arts in Canada

The Arts in Canada

Author: William J. Keith

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1980-12-15

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 148759075X

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In this volume a baker's dozen of creative Canadians make personal responses to the state of the arts in Canada: Northrop Frye and Guy Rocher write on general cultural trends; Hugh MacLennan and Gérard Bessette on fiction; Ralph Gustafson and Michèle Lalonde on poetry; Robertson Davies and Gratien Gélinas on drama; George Woodcock and Jacques Allard on non-fiction prose; Godfrey Ridout on music, and Aba Bayefsky and Humphrey N. Milnes on art. The essays were written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Toronto Quarterly. The contributors were invited to discuss the changes, problems, challenges, and achievements in the arts in the last fifty years. Since all the authors had personal experience of at least a large section of the period surveyed, the editors welcomed personal reminiscence as well as description and assessment. The result is a varied group of essays in each of which the character of the individual artist is clearly evident; together, they provide a complex, many-faceted, lively, and living discussion of the cultural development of Canada. This anniversary collection of essays is a valuable and provocative source for courses in Canadian studies and for anyone interested in the development of the arts and humanities in Canada.


Creative Canada

Creative Canada

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Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1971-12-15

Total Pages: 629

ISBN-13: 1442637838

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Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to find. This series has been created to provide the answers; it covers creative and performing artists who have contributed as individuals to the culture of Canada in the twentieth century. Each volume in the series presents a cross-section of many different kinds of artists: authors of imaginative works, artists and sculptors, musicians (performers, composers, conductors, and directors), and performing artists in ballet, modern dance, radio, theatre, television, and motion pictures; directors, designers, and producers in theatre, cinema, radio, television, and the dance; choreographers and, for cinema, cartoonists and animators. Within each category of art is included a selection of those who have achieved national and international recognition; those who have been recognized locally, and some, now deceased, who markedly influenced their contemporaries locally, nationally, or internationally. This is not a critical compilation; rather it is an objective and factual reference work for those interested in contemporary Canadian culture. Information was collected by painstaking research in a wide variety of sources, and wherever possible it has been verified by the artist to make each entry as accurate and comprehensive as possible.


Canada

Canada

Author: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 075666103X

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Presents a guide to the national parks, museums, historic sites, and other attractions in Canada, and offers recommendations for hotels, restaurants, and activities.


Performing Female Blackness

Performing Female Blackness

Author: Naila Keleta-Mae

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2023-06-20

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1771124814

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Performing Female Blackness examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. This book examines what private and public performances of female blackness reveal about race, gender, and nation and considers how the land widely known as Canada shapes these performances. By exploring Black expressive culture in familial, literary, and performance settings, Naila Keleta-Mae theorizes that “perpetual performance” forces people who are read as female and Black to always be figuratively on stage regardless of cultural, political, or historical contexts. Written in poetry, prose, and journal form and drawing from the author’s own life and artistic works, Performing Female Blackness is ideal not only for scholars, educators, and students of the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts but also for artists and the general public too.


Performing Objects and Theatrical Things

Performing Objects and Theatrical Things

Author: Marlis Schweitzer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-14

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1137402458

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This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives.


Theatre And (Im)migration

Theatre And (Im)migration

Author: Yana Meerzon

Publisher: New Essays in Canadian Theatre

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780369100016

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Theatre and (Im)migration shines a bright light on the impact that immigrant artists have made and continue to make on the development of Canadian theatre, from themes, characters, and world issues to financial structures and artistic techniques. The collection of essays demonstrates how the increased presence of immigrant theatre artists actively contributing to English- and French-Canadian theatre prompt their audiences to rethink fundamental concepts of nationalism and multiculturalism. Contributors include Moira Day, Alan Filewood, Aida Jordão, Ric Knowles, Natasha Martina Koechl, Rebecca Margolis, Lisa Ndejuru, Nicole Nolette, Eleanor Ty, and many more.