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Challenging traditional film musicology, this book approaches the film score from practical to theoretical perspectives. Essays explore films from art-house to mainstream, and include interviews with influential composers Trevor Jones and Michael Nyman.
Challenging traditional film musicology, this book approaches the film score from practical to theoretical perspectives. Essays explore films from art-house to mainstream, and include interviews with influential composers Trevor Jones and Michael Nyman.
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British Music and the French Revolution investigates the little-studied repertoire of concert and theatrical music created in Britain between 1789–1795. It explores how a spirit of patriotism, political turmoil, and war inspired an outpouring of music.
British Music and the French Revolution investigates the little-studied repertoire of concert and theatrical music created in Britain between 1789–1795. It explores how a spirit of patriotism, political turmoil, and war inspired an outpouring of music.
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Contemporary Southeast Asian Performance
Transnational Perspectives
This volume offers vital insights into recent developments in Southeast Asian performance. Global communications have inspired novel collaborations, with contemporary artists increasingly working beyond the traditional boundaries of nation and discourses of identity.
This volume offers vital insights into recent developments in Southeast Asian performance. Global communications have inspired novel collaborations, with contemporary artists increasingly working beyond the traditional boundaries of nation and discourses of identity.
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This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.
This collection of essays re-evaluates the connections between music, fine art, and architecture during the flowering of modernism, c. 1849–1950. Through detailed case-studies, this book re-thinks modernism itself to advocate for a multiplicity of modernisms.
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Against and Beyond
Subversion and Transgression in Mass Media, Popular Culture and Performance
How do film, music, and media subvert the status quo? This essay collection applies critical theory to explore transgression in popular culture, offering essential reading for all who dare to go against and beyond.
How do film, music, and media subvert the status quo? This essay collection applies critical theory to explore transgression in popular culture, offering essential reading for all who dare to go against and beyond.
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Russian Émigré Culture
Conservatism or Evolution?
This volume offers a collection of critical articles reflecting current perspectives on Russian émigré culture. Scholars shed new light on cultural diplomacy, literature, art, and music, documenting the diversity and impact of this movement on European life.
This volume offers a collection of critical articles reflecting current perspectives on Russian émigré culture. Scholars shed new light on cultural diplomacy, literature, art, and music, documenting the diversity and impact of this movement on European life.
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The essays in this volume explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literature, film, and music. This collection reflects a wide range of international disciplines and highlights the growing interest in consciousness studies.
The essays in this volume explore the relationship between human consciousness and the arts, including theatre, literature, film, and music. This collection reflects a wide range of international disciplines and highlights the growing interest in consciousness studies.
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The Disappointed Bridge
Ireland and the Post-Colonial World
This first major study of Ireland’s post-colonial experience draws parallels with other emergent nations. Through literary and musical contexts, it offers unique insight into independence, asking: What happens to an emerging nation after it has emerged?
This first major study of Ireland’s post-colonial experience draws parallels with other emergent nations. Through literary and musical contexts, it offers unique insight into independence, asking: What happens to an emerging nation after it has emerged?
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This collection of articles by musicologists, performers, sound engineers, and educators explores leading ideas in music technologies and the cognition of classical and contemporary music.
This collection of articles by musicologists, performers, sound engineers, and educators explores leading ideas in music technologies and the cognition of classical and contemporary music.
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Women in the Arts
Eccentric Essays II
Is there a need for books about women in the arts? The word “woman” still precedes titles like composer or artist, suggesting men’s creativity is the norm. These essays challenge the status quo, highlighting women's accomplishments to enrich our culture.
Is there a need for books about women in the arts? The word “woman” still precedes titles like composer or artist, suggesting men’s creativity is the norm. These essays challenge the status quo, highlighting women’s accomplishments to enrich our culture.
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Mediating Peace
Reconciliation through Visual Art, Music and Film
This edited collection examines the role of art, music and film in peace-building and reconciliation in a range of conflict situations. The contributors are composed of prominent scholars and artists, and examine theoretical, professional and practical concerns.
This edited collection examines the role of art, music and film in peace-building and reconciliation in a range of conflict situations. The contributors are composed of prominent scholars and artists, and examine theoretical, professional and practical concerns.
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Ancient Dramatic Chorus through the Eyes of a Modern Choreographer
Zouzou Nikoloudi
Savrami analyses the work of the Greek choreographer Zouzou Nikoloudi, and provides answers to key questions about her work in relation to ancient Greek views of tragedy and the ways those views have been reinterpreted in contemporary dance practice.
Savrami analyses the work of the Greek choreographer Zouzou Nikoloudi, and provides answers to key questions about her work in relation to ancient Greek views of tragedy and the ways those views have been reinterpreted in contemporary dance practice.
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The contributions here offer new insights into aspects of Russian émigré culture already known to scholarship, but also detail new facets of the phenomenon, highlighting the significance of places of seemingly secondary importance such as Prague, Istanbul and India.
The contributions here offer new insights into aspects of Russian émigré culture already known to scholarship, but also detail new facets of the phenomenon, highlighting the significance of places of seemingly secondary importance such as Prague, Istanbul and India.
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This volume discusses pressing issues in contemporary artistic education and culture. It explores how artistic education preserves national traditions, contributes to international integration, and navigates the challenges of the 21st century.
This volume discusses pressing issues in contemporary artistic education and culture. It explores how artistic education preserves national traditions, contributes to international integration, and navigates the challenges of the 21st century.
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Consciousness, Performing Arts and Literature
Trajectories, 2014-2018
Against the background of personal, institutional and cultural trajectories, this collection considers dance, opera, theatre and practice as research from a consciousness studies perspective.
Against the background of personal, institutional and cultural trajectories, this collection considers dance, opera, theatre and practice as research from a consciousness studies perspective.
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This book is the first complete research on opera theatres across the Middle East and North Africa. Examining many previously undocumented institutions, this work provides scholars and practitioners with the first reference on their evolutionary process.
This book is the first complete research on opera theatres across the Middle East and North Africa. Examining many previously undocumented institutions, this work provides scholars and practitioners with the first reference on their evolutionary process.
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Interpreting the Synthesizer
Meaning Through Sonics
This volume examines the synthesizer’s significance for music and culture. Contributors explore how the synth evolved to signify futurism for new wave acts, mind expansion for psychedelic bands, and escapism for techno, leading to its ubiquity in modern pop.
This volume examines the synthesizer’s significance for music and culture. Contributors explore how the synth evolved to signify futurism for new wave acts, mind expansion for psychedelic bands, and escapism for techno, leading to its ubiquity in modern pop.
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Sound Art and Music
Philosophy, Composition, Performance
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
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The Life and Work of Rudolf Bruči
The Composer in the Rift between Aesthetics and Ideologies
This first collection of essays in English on composer Rudolf Bruči explores his multivalent work from many angles. It emphasizes his relevance in Balkan musicology, his considerable international reputation, and his role as a cultural worker in post-war socialist Yugoslavia.
This first collection of essays in English on composer Rudolf Bruči explores his multivalent work from many angles. It emphasizes his relevance in Balkan musicology, his considerable international reputation, and his role as a cultural worker in post-war socialist Yugoslavia.
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This book tells the story of Monet, Tchaikovsky, and Zola. Parallel biographies follow these three artistic geniuses as they took a leading role in moving painting, music, and literature in a bold new direction, shaping the course of modern culture in 19th-century Europe.
This book tells the story of Monet, Tchaikovsky, and Zola. Parallel biographies follow these three artistic geniuses as they took a leading role in moving painting, music, and literature in a bold new direction, shaping the course of modern culture in 19th-century Europe.
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