She Bop II
She Bop II

Author: Lucy O'Brien

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2003-10-16

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0826435297

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Popular music grew out of ragtime, vaudeville and the blues to become global mass entertainment. Women like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith were the original pop divas, yet eighty years after they blazed a trail, have their successors achieved the recognition and affirmation they deserve? Or has the only way to success been to slot into saleable images of the cute baby or sexy chanteuse? This is the story of women as creators and innovators, aiming to provide a history of women in rock, pop and soul - on stage, on camera and working behind the scenes in a male-dominated industry. This edition contains an extra chapter and interviews covering trends such as Girlpower.

Men, Women and Pianos
Men, Women and Pianos

Author: Arthur Loesser

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-27

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 0486171612

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A renowned concert pianist traces the instrument's design, manufacture, and music in a delightful "piano's eye-view" of the social history of Western Europe and the United States from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

Performing Arts in Prisons
Performing Arts in Prisons

Author: Michael Balfour

Publisher: Intellect Books

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1789380162

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Across the world, performing arts programmes are increasing in number, scope and professionalism. They attract increasing academic and media attention. Theoretical and applied research, organizational evaluation reports, documentary films and journalism are detailing prison arts and creating recognition that this body of work is becoming a valued part of the correctional enterprise. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests music, theatre, poetry and dance can contribute to prisoner wellbeing, management, rehabilitation and reintegration. Performing Arts in Prisons: Creative Perspectives explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices.

Anna Halprin
Anna Halprin

Author: Janice Ross

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-05-06

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0520260058

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This comprehensive biography examines Halprin's fascinating life in the context of American culture - in particular popular culture and the West Coast as a center of artistic experimentation from the Beats through the Hippies to the present.

The Yellow Boat
The Yellow Boat

Author: David Saar

Publisher: Anchorage Press (UK)

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9780876023525

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A young boy concludes his bedtime ritual pretending to be a yellow boat sailing up to the sun.

The Color of Theater
The Color of Theater

Author: Roberta Uno

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780826456380

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The Color of Theater presents a range of essays, interviews and performance texts that illustrate and examine the process, evolution and dynamics of making theater in the dawning moments of the 21st century. It brings together writings by artists, intellectuals and art activists exploring contemporary practices within multicultural, intercultural and ethnically specific theaters. This provocative and dynamic resource brings forth critical issues of cultural aesthetics engaging theater as a crucial site for examining the intricate intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality and national and global politics.Contributors include: Rustom Bharucha, Thulani Davis, Harry Elam, Guillermo Gomez-Pea, Velina Hasu Huston, Cherrfe Moraga, David Romn, Sekou Sundiata, Diana Taylor, Una Chaudhuri, Alberto Sandoval-Snchez and lO thi diem thy.

Theatre and Performing Arts Collections
Theatre and Performing Arts Collections

Author: Lee Ash

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-19

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1136565434

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Here is an exciting book that provides detailed descriptions of dozens of the most important and unique collections of “theatricana” in the United States and Canada. In Theatre and Performing Arts Collections, distinguished theatre specialists, librarians, and curators describe the unique possessions of the best and largest collections in theatre and performing arts. Each chapter provides detailed descriptions of the collections, as well as important notes about their history--information that is not available in any other source!

Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929
Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929

Author: Jane Pritchard

Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum

Published: 2015-05-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781851778355

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"This book was published to coincide with the exhibition Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes 1909-1929 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 25 September 2010-9 January 2011"--Title page verso.