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Published June 2019 24 Bars to Kill
Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins
Armstrong, A. B.
Contrary to persistent depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, “ghetto” or “gangsta” J-hop music gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill gives a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2005
Aesthetics in Performance
Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience
Hobart, A. & Kapferer, B. (eds)
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Children Dancing in Bali
Practice, Performance, and Power
McIntosh, J.
An illuminating ethnographic study of Balinese dance traditions, Children Dancing in Bali examines how children navigate the nexus of power, practice, and performance through the medium of Balinese culture, in order to negotiate fluctuations in their identity and society.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
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Published March 2016
Choreographies of Landscape
Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park
Ness, S. A.
This original and cross-disciplinary book studies the experiences of Yosemite park visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. It grounds a sophisticated semiotic analysis in the lived experiences of parkgoers, assembling a collective account that will be of interest in disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published April 2017
Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance
Anthropologies of Sound and Movement
Chrysagis, E. & Karampampas, P. (eds)
Across varied domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collaborative dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2018
Curating Live Arts
Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice
Davida, D., Pronovost, M., Hudom, V., & Gabriels, J. (eds)
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project. Curating Live Arts brings together innovative essays from international theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline.
Subjects: Performance Studies Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2013
Dance Circles
Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
Neveu Kringelbach, H.
A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2008
Dances with Spiders
Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Southern Italy
Lüdtke, K.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Performance Studies
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Published December 2007
Dancing At the Crossroads
Memory and Mobility in Ireland
Wulff, H.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published October 2012
Dancing Cultures
Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Neveu Kringelbach, H. & Skinner, J. (eds)
Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2018
Dreams of Germany
Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor
Gregor, N. & Irvine, T. (eds)
Why is Germany imagined as the ‘land of music’? How has that image been made over time? Exploring examples that range from Bruckner to the Beatles, from classical song to sex-club dance music, a team of historians and musicologists explores these perennial questions in innovative and exciting ways.
Subjects: Media Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies
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Published November 2008
Embodied Communities
Dance Traditions and Change in Java
Hughes-Freeland, F.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published May 1996
Fascism and Theatre
Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Berghaus, G. (ed)
Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Literary Studies
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Published March 2009
The Frightful Stage
Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Goldstein, R. J. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published October 2003
The Great Tradition and Its Legacy
The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe
Cherlin, M., Filipowicz, H. & Rudolph, R. L. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Performance Studies Literary Studies
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Published September 2022
Historical Reenactment
New Ways of Experiencing History
Carretero, M., Wagoner, B., & Perez-Manjarrez, E. (eds)
The increasing number of historical reenactments, along with their growing popularity, are catching both attention in popular culture and in multiple academic disciplines. Historical Reenactment takes a transdisciplinary and global approach to define and theorize reenactments as an embedded cultural and material phenomenon.
Subjects: Memory Studies Performance Studies
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Published June 2003
Hitler's Dancers
German Modern Dance and the Third Reich
Karina, L & Kant, M.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published January 2016
In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Griffith, L. M.
Every year, young adults from Western nations travel to Brazil to train in the dance/martial art of capoeira. This ethnography uses the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage—studying with a local master at a historical point of origin—to explore how non-Brazilians learn their art and claim legitimacy within capoeira communities.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2016
Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances
The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance
Sikand, N.
Odissi dance has transformed over the centuries from an Indian temple ritual to a transnational genre performed—and consumed—throughout the world. Building on ethnographic research in multiple locations, this book reveals the complexity of odissi as it is practiced today, at the intersection of identity, nationalism, tradition, and neoliberal economics.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2014
Learning Senegalese Sabar
Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar
Bizas, E.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2006
Lela in Bali
History through Ceremony in Cameroon
Fardon, R.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies Colonial History
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Published August 2018
Lullabies and Battle Cries
Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland
Rollins, J.
Lullabies and Battle Cries examines the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and identity in Northern Irish republican parading bands, exploring how rebel parade music provides a foundational idiom of national and republican expression, acting as a critical medium for shaping new political identities.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2024
Melanesian Mainstream
Stringband Music and Identity in Vanuatu
Ellerich, S. T.
Based in extensive ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream provides a detailed representation of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband music in the Melanesian Republic of Vanuatu.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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Published April 2015
Music and International History in the Twentieth Century
Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. (ed)
Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Performance Studies
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Published December 2013
Mussolini's Dream Factory
Film Stardom in Fascist Italy
Gundle, S.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Performance Studies
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Published September 1999
Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event
The Case of the XVII Winter Olympic Games in Norway
Klausen, A. (ed)
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2019
One Sound, Two Worlds
The Blues in a Divided Germany, 1945-1990
Rauhut, M.
Through extensive archival research and conversations with renowned publicists, musicians and insiders, author Michael Rauhut examines more than fifty texts to give an in-depth overview of the historical development of blues music in East and West Germany during the postwar period.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2023
Performing Memory
Corporeality, Visuality, and Mobility after 1968
Passerini, L. & Reinisch, D. (eds)
Through a post-1968 perspective on Europe, Performing Memory newly approaches the performative dimensions of memory within the historical cluster of visuality, corporeality and mobility. In a series of focused case studies from emerging and leading scholars, this volume enlarges the focus of memory across the histories of dance, theatre, the media, cinema, and other forms of artistic and political performances.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Performance Studies Mobility Studies
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Published September 2012
Performing Place, Practising Memories
Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State
Henry, R.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2021
Perspectives in Motion
Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music
Stepputat, K & Diettrich, B. (eds)
Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, Perspectives in Motion explores visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, offering new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.
Subjects: Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 1996
The Politics of Cultural Performance
Parkin, D., Caplan, L. & Fisher, H. (eds)
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published September 2017
Power in Practice
The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira
González Varela, S.
Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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Published March 2009
The Return of Jazz
Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change
Wright Hurley, A.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2024
Reversible America
Cowboys, Clowns, and Bullfighters
Saumade, F. & Maudet, J.-B.
Reversible America negotiates the spectacle of Rodeo, cattle ranching, and bullfighting as it has manifested in California through cross border convergences of Iberian bullfighting, Native American hunting methods, and ethics in human and non-human relationships.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century
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Published July 2019
Shakespeare and Commemoration
Calvo, C. & Hoenselaars, T. (eds)
Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world author. As the contributors of this collection demonstrate, the phenomenon of commemoration has no single approach, as it occurs on many levels, has a long history, and is highly unpredictable in its manifestations.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies Literary Studies Memory Studies
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Published September 2019
Shakespeare and Creative Criticism
Conkie, R. & Maisano, S. (eds)
What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critically engage with Shakespeare.
Subjects: Literary Studies Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2017
Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
Ní Shíocháin, T.
The songs of the beloved Irish poet Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice, representing an integral contribution to the development of anti-colonial thought in Ireland. Singing Ideas explores the significance of her work, and the immense power of her chosen medium.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century Anthropology (General) Literary Studies
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Published December 2017
Staging Citizenship
Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania
Szeman, I.
Staging Citizenship explores a wide range of Roma performances and representations—from live music and cultural performances to Gypsy soaps and reality TV shows, demonstrating how disenfranchised urban Roma claim cultural citizenship and belonging in music, dance, activism and everyday encounters.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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Published October 2004
Theater and Political Process
Staging Identities in Tokelau and New Zealand
Hoëm, I.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2001
Theatre and War 1933-1945
Performance in Extremis
Balfour, M.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Literary Studies
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Published July 2016
The Total Work of Art
Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations
Imhoof, D., Menninger, M. E., & Steinhoff, A. J. (eds)
In this wide-ranging volume’s twelve compact essays, scholars from across the disciplines trace Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies
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Towards a British Natyam
Creating a British Classical Indian Dance Tradition
Gorringe, M.
An illuminating investigation into the ‘professionalization’ of classical Indian dance forms in Britain, Towards a British Natyam critically analyzes the cultural, social, and political frameworks that make a ‘profession’ within the arts possible, highlighting the transformational power of classical Indian dance within society to decenter white supremacy and recenter pluriversality.
Subjects: Performance Studies Heritage Studies Sociology
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Published November 2009
Turning the Tune
Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village
Kaul, A.
Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2008
Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance
St John, G. (ed)
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2016
War Magic
Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
Farrer, D. S. (ed)
This collection documents war magic and warrior religion as performed in diverse cultures and historical time periods. By foregrounding embodiment, practice, and performance, the anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion that the authors apply go beyond what magic ‘represents’ to consider what magic does.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Performance Studies
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Published June 2008
Where Humans and Spirits Meet
The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar
Larsen, K.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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