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Shock Factory
This book aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analysing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement. 636 halftones Read an interview with Nicolas Ballet Shock Fa...
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Well-Being and Creative Careers
There is a well-documented mental health crisis among media professionals worldwide. This book documents what is particular about well-being in creative careers in the media, offers an analysis of systemic issues throughout the media industries that explain why so many practitioners get sick on t...
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Arts Education in Ireland
Arts in Education in Ireland: From Pedagogy to Practice examines the distinctive nature of arts-based learning in education in Ireland. It draws on recent research from pedagogy to practice in Irish schools. It examines the relevance of arts-based learning against the backdrop of the drive for tw...
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Music Making and Civic Imagination
This book explores the idea of music making (musicing) – the ‘performance’ of human relationships through music – as a resource for imagining possible futures. Through practical examples, it highlights the value of musicing as a resource for human evolution and sustainable development, through th...
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The Films of Aleksandr Rou
In a directorial career spanning from 1938 to 1972, Aleksandr Rou transformed the landscape of Soviet fantasy and filmmaking. Featuring detailed analyses of Rou’s films and their social and industrial contexts, this book introduces the exhilarating oeuvre of one of the world’s great masters of fa...
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Systems Play
Systems Play reveals how contemporary art and design use play to navigate complexity and uncertainty in interconnected systems. Through vivid case studies, it showcases how contemporary artists expand perception and offer blueprints for a more adaptable and humane world. 49 col. illus.
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Wild Renaissance
Offers a new and original way of understanding the current ecological turmoil through the lens of art, philosophy and ecology. Draws on a new concept of renaissance and proposes a 360° vision on how to dwell on Earth. The role of art and design appear of paramount importance and play a crucial ro...
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Under the Counter
Tells the undocumented story of Britain’s trade in 8mm hardcore pornography, exploring how entrepreneurs circumvented obscenity laws to produce and distribute hardcore films. Draws on extensive archival research, including the use of legal records, police files, media reportage, and interviews wi...
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The Being of Relation
Brings together Glissant’s poetics of relation and Deligny’s errant lines to study the structures holding whiteness and neurotypicality in place. Moves beyond the confines of pathology and psychological assessment to look into how blackness and neurodiversity emerge at the very site of relation –...
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Fighting for the Soul of General Practice
A view of contemporary general practice from two practising GPs. Themes include industrialisation versus craftsmanship; the effect of protocol; and the breakdown of relational care. The theoretical perspectives introduced are illustrated through a series of anonymised anecdotes. 15 b/w illus. Fr...
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The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies
The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies provides a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. The volume includes a wide range of methodologies, including semiotics, ethnography, psychology, intersectionality, archeology, livestrea...
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Essay Film and Narrative Techniques
The collection explores various methods of screen-writing for essay film, through a diverse set of reflections and analyses of canonical and unconventional approaches of essay filmmaking and includes contributions from filmmakers and practice-led researchers. 40 illus.
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Lines of Inquiry
Multi-disciplinary edited collection on drawing research and methods. The international group of contributors provides suggestions for developing new ways of knowing, for developing empathy toward things that may lie outside our own experiences, and for seeing alternative perspectives through dra...
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Matrescence and Performance
Asks what performance can do to expand representations of becoming a mother. Using mimesis, liveness, and digital mediums to render their own matrescent bodies, contemporary mother/artists explore historical pejorative theoretical concepts and aesthetics in new, feminist ways. A valuable and rigo...
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Medievalism, Popular Culture and Politics in Metal Music
This book explores how metal's medievalizing epicism connects with pop culture and politics. Focusing on medieval Hispanic epic themes, it examines whether and how bands address the sexist, racist, nationalist, and exclusionary undertones tied to medievalizing epicism, and what this means for the...
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Salted Earth
The author makes a series of journeys, carrying out artistic practices uncovering histories, geographies, and biographies of salt and the places it has passed through. These practices explore both personal family history and the global entanglements of trade, labour, colonialism and migration nar...
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Throbbing Gristle
This book situates the British band Throbbing Gristle as both a lens and critical tool for England during the punk years and the Winter of Discontent. Using detailed archival research and testimony from key performances, it plots the impact and affective reach of the band. 20 b/w illus.
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Dancing Place
Dancing Place stories the author's experiences of moving together, making, being in the world. From an Africanist & Indigenous relational philosophy, the book discusses artistic process of somatic-based movement inquiry through sharing the authors' work with scores over a 6-year research proj...
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World Film Locations: Los Angeles
World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the ‘screen spectacle’. It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-c...
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World Film Locations: Rome
This volume explores the city of Rome, which has served as the setting for countless memorable films, spanning all genres and emotions. Readers are taken on a journey through the city with stops at key locations. A carefully selected compilation of films is complemented by essays that further exa...
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Art as Research
The new practice of art-based research uses art making as a primary mode of enquiry rather than continuing to borrow research methodologies from other disciplines to study artistic processes. Drawing on contributions from arts therapies, education, history, organisational studies and philosophy, ...
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Kurt Kren
Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films—often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately prescored charts and diagrams—have influenced filmmakers for decades, even as Kren himself remained a nomadic and obscure public figure. Kurt Kre...
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Singing for Our Lives
Exploring the role of street choirs in political culture, and based on oral histories from more than 40 members of UK street choirs, this book introduces this neglected world to a wider public, including activists and academics. The title is taken from a song by musician and activist Holly Near, ...
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Performance Art in Ireland
This book, the first devoted to the history and contemporary forms of Irish performance art in the north and south of Ireland, brings together contributions by prominent Irish artists and major academics. Co-published with Live Art Development Agency.
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Fat Performance
Fat Performance is the first published edited collection dedicated to fat performance. The text connects materials from across scholarship on fat performance and provides the readership with routes into this area of artistic practice and scholarly enquiry.
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In Search of Tito’s Punks
An unvarnished but also affectionate portrait of Yugoslavia in the years before its demise through to the present, seen through the unlikely lens of punk. Part travelogue, part history the book is both, and neither, of those things. A mural and soundtrack of a journey through a time and place whi...
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The Intellect Handbook of Nordic Cinema
The Intellect Handbook of Nordic Cinema is a comprehensive reference work providing an overview of cinema in the Nordic countries – Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. By comparing the cinematic cultures of the five Nordic nations as well as Sápmi, the book gives the readers a more comp...
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Obsessions of a Showwoman
The book foregrounds the important lineage of incredible women working across performance, live art and cabaret and asks how the term 'Showwoman' can transgress the figure of the showman as a provider of the spectacular. It encourages the showgirl to finally graduate into adulthood. 60 illus.
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Architecture, Film, and the In-between
Architecture, Film, and the In-Between: Spatio-Cinematic Betwixt brings together some of the most prominent thinkers in contemporary architectural discourses with an investigation of the filmic imagination of architectural in-betweenness, as well as the in-between spaces within the architectural ...
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Photo Obscura
This book discusses the transformation of post-photography into a significant movement that redefines photography by integrating it with emerging technologies and creative practices, resulting in works that may not even resemble photographs but still retain a photographic influence. 40 illus.
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Fashion Projects
This book collects the best articles from the long-running journal Fashion Projects, most issues of which are now unavailable. Through detailed interviews with designers, critics and curators, the book chronicles the ascent of fashion as a critical force across media, the museum and the academy o...
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Popular Music in Leeds
The first academic collection dedicated to the histories, heritage, people and places of popular music in Leeds. It presents critical social and historical case studies exploring Leeds’ music and musical spaces, central players - musicians and music industry figures, and key moments in diverse mu...
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Media Materialities
Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities and their significance to the study of media, culture and society. Offers new thinking and perspectives on media materialities, including work that explores media materiality and the past, physical and digital tensions and m...
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On the Communicative Turn in Philosophy
The book aims to give prominence to the way the concept of communication has been deployed within philosophical debates. It shows how philosophers have adopted this concept in their discussions on the issues of intersubjectivity, community and the ethics of dialogue. A PDF version of this book i...
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Still Moving
Adds to growing literature of overcoming ageism in dance. Highlights the achievements of remarkable senior professional dancers and through conversations with them provides an inspiring account of human potential and resilience. Has the potential to reach an anti-ageing reader as well as a dance ...
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Flesh and Text
A critical analysis of UK performance company Bodies in Flight’s work and collaborative methodology, including archival images, text extracts, reflections by collaborators, arts professionals, performance scholars, providing a context for small-scale performance making and insights into devising ...
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Lexicon for an Affective Archive
To study an archive or archival materials is to encounter an affective and critical practice involved in the construction of memory. Lexicon for an Affective Archive is an international collection of these encounters, offering glimpses into the intimate relations inherent in finding, remembering ...
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Kira O'Reilly
Artist Kira O'Reilly's works use the uncertain boundaries of bodies to ask what kind of societies become possible in collaborations across species, organisms and bodies. She explores these questions through sustained and experimental engagements with politics, biopolitics, change and the complex ...
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Serious Play
Slapstick comedy is the primary mode of performance for clowns, and in Serious Play, drama scholar Louise Peacock explores the evolution over the past fifty years of this unique brand of physical comedy. Though an analysis of clowning in a range of settings—theaters, circuses, hospitals, refugee...
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Space in the Image
Space in the Image is an intercontinental, interdisciplinary book exploring how still and moving images shape our experience of cities. At the intersection of architecture and digital media, it questions how representation and experience evolve in urban life amid rapid urbanization and digital im...
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Cutting Up Books
Explores writing as experiment and destruction as discovery. Blending theory, art, and practice, it introduces textrapolation: a cut-up method that reimagines creativity, authorship, and knowledge-making in the age of artificial unintelligence. Encourages intellectual play, intuition, and embodie...
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Building Community Choirs in the Twenty-First Century
This book explores how five diverse community choirs build their collective identity within the complex setting of Northern Ireland. The case studies investigate the ways in which singers engage in their choral practice and demonstrates how this engagement can move beyond sectarian identity const...
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Decolonial Media Imaginaries
A bold inquiry into media imaginaries and imaginaries-work as tools of decolonial resistance, worldmaking, and collective futurity. DMI pivots away from the digital, technological, and sublime imaginaries created in the service of global capitalism to foreground the potential viability and genera...
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Bernhard Lang
A critical guide and introduction to the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957) - one of Europe’s foremost leading practitioners in contemporary music. It traces the phenomenon of repetition as it works in and through Lang’s oeuvre and investigates his use of textual quotation and musi...
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DesignWISE
DesignWISE introduces a 360-degree, regenerative approach to design development. Bringing together designers, thinkers and changemakers, combining design thinking, systemic leadership, and earth-based wisdom traditions to foster reflection, intentional action and a deeper, more sustainable way of...
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Digital Exhaustion
Daily life in digital culture is exhausting. This timely and urgent edited collection takes the theme of ‘digital exhaustion’ as a starting point for critical inquiry into the ever-expanding presence of digital technologies in our personal and professional lives. 37 b&w illus.
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Human Theatre and Energetic Alchemy
A poetic and practical guide to embodied performance, Human Theatre and Energetic Alchemy explores energy, presence, and transformation through breath, movement, and vulnerability. Ideal for performers, educators, and researchers seeking deeper connection on stage and beyond. 150 b&w illus.
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Rendered in Bits and Stone
The book provides a cross disciplinary examination of digital reconstruction projects and innovations in the field of immersive exhibitions, looking into the ‘digital politics of conservation’; technologies that augment storytelling’; and digital technologies considered tools for creating ‘virtua...
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artmaking as embodied enquiry
Designed as a generative platform for sourcing creativity, this book is about folding as a vibrant stimulus for inter/trans/postdisciplinary artistic research, transforming playful exploration into deeper intimacy within art making with mixed media artist Susan Sentler and somatic educator Glenna...
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From Broadway to The Bronx
A fascinating and vibrant depiction of New York City in song across a variety of different genres, focusing on Broadway, musical theatre, hip hop, punk, folk, and jazz genres, as well as the work of New York born artists and those who are intimately connected with the city. Read the introductio...
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Post-Catastrophe Film
A new sub-genre of film called ‘post-catastrophe’ is emerging and sits in the space between blockbuster disaster movies that use scenes of destruction to blow the world up and disrupt the flow of humanity and post-apocalyptic films where a version of society has formed in the ashes of the disaste...
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Repair across Africa
Examines repair as a dynamic social, material, cultural, and economic practice. Spanning diverse African contexts, it explores how mending connects labour, urban lives, and historical memories, revealing the artisanal skills and relational dynamics that underpin everyday acts of material care and...
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Propositions for Studio Inquiry
Examining art studios as a way of thinking through a cross-Canada journey into over 100 painters’ studios. Drawn from ways artists described their process, the studio is presented as an active ecosystem wherein artmaking is emergent, performative, generative, material, speculative, messy and in d...
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Studying Unmade, Unseen, and Unreleased Film and Television
A compendium to the study of unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television, with case studies, definitions, indications for further reading, and details of methodological and theoretical approaches. A foundational text it also contains new discoveries and perspectives and is a key reference ...
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Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance
Includes the full-length performance score of A Duet Without You, an original piece of collaboratively devised theatre by performance artist and scholar Chloé Déchery and her collaborators Karen Christopher, Pedro Inês, Simone Kenyon, Martin Langthorne, Tom Parkinson, Michael Pinchbeck and Debora...
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Crafted With Pride
This collection explores queer craft and the material cultures of LGBTQ+ activism in Britain since the 1980s. It includes contributions from academics, artists, activists, curators, and heritage professionals. The first book of its kind, it weaves together an important web connecting queerness, c...
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Reimagining the Art Classroom
A graphically compelling, richly illustrated, and theoretically robust text for artists, designers and teachers. The collection presents field notes for meaningful artistic inquiry and exploration that includes divergent practices in art, design, curriculum, and education within contemporary issu...
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Radical Intimacies
The concept of radical intimacies is about a closeness to the world created through our relations, towards decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. The political dimension involves qualities that enable alternatives to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism. Engages design wit...
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Scream for Me, Africa!
Discusses African metal scenes and conversations around the presence of heavy metal in the continent, and how acts in Africa are changing the conversation of what is possible. Looks at the continent's blossoming scenes through themes including hybridity, othering and how scenes have collided with...
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The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine
Through an interplay of words and images, this book documents the life of Palestinian communities of shepherds and farmers under Israeli occupation that threatens their very survival. Years of human rights activism in Palestine have guided the authors in crafting this unique visual and verbal rec...
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Socially Engaged Creative Practice
This collection is the second in the Performance and Communities series. Contributions from academics and artists engage with both these notions of performance – that of identities in and through time and space - and of more formal instances of specific time-limited performances (textual/ embodie...
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Vernacular Theatre
A practical description of six intergenerational projects developed during a ten-year period. Over the course of the book, the author develops his argument for a form of civic drama that is accessible to all but rigorous in process. Based on work made with citizens of London and Hiroshima. 13 col...
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DJing in New York
Electronic dance music (EDM) has proliferated in popularity, yet little is known about how DJs learn or progress as professionals. DJing in New York details a social process of music learning while following DJs in New York for a portion of their career as they develop musically, grow through net...
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Global Culture after Gombrich
The volume presents essays by 10 eminent historians of art and culture provoked by the work of Ernst Gombrich. The collection shows Gombrich’s concerns to have initiated lines of enquiry that spread beyond Europe and across the globe, and makes a vital contribution to the contemporary debate arou...
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Popular Music Ethnographies
This interdisciplinary book takes the reader on global journeys from the UK to China, from Ecuador to Jamaica, through a melange of music genres. In doing so, it raises key questions as the contributors reflect upon doing and communicating ethnographic research on popular music. 14 b&w illus.
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Being Human Today
Stages conversations between art, education and mental health around the question of what it means to be human today. Moves beyond the suggestion that this requires ‘strong’ educational or therapeutic interventions or can be resolved by means of individual expression, chapters explore new possibi...
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Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting
A powerful testament to the impact of an international collection of female screenwriters, this is a celebration of the women writers who use their artistic lens to educate and empower others. It brings long-overdue attention to the vital role women take in shaping the global cultural landscape. ...
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Dances with Sheep
Felt thinking is a body-based way of working with movement in somatic experience of the ecologically inclusive sense of self. Dances with Sheep presents the multitude of personal journeys which bring the lived connections between Nature and the self to the fore and offers new insights into how to...
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Becoming a Visually Reflective Practitioner
Considers how self-study using arts-based methods can enable purposeful reflection toward understanding and envisioning professional practice. Presents a self-study model highlighting arts-based methods for examining areas of professional practice: professional identities, work cultures, change a...
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Mathias Spahlinger
A critical introduction to the music and thought of the German composer Mathias Spahlinger. Explored from his own perspective and discussed critically in relation to the work of French philosopher Jacques Ranciére and the continuing discourses of modernism. The first study on Spahlinger to be pub...
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A/r/tography
Working around the pervasive themes of relationality and renderings, ethics and embodiment, movement and materiality, and propositions and potentials, the volume simultaneously offers a site for the review of key historical works and at the same time, new scholarship that enters into conceptual c...
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Fashion Knowledge
Programmatically outlines a paradigmatic shift towards an expanded fashion discourse at the intersection of doing and thinking. Designers, artists, curators and theorists investigate the multifaceted debates on the rise of practice-based research in fashion and thus make a significant step to adv...
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Music by Numbers
This edited collection examines statistics within the music industry. Its aim is to expose the historical and contemporary use and abuse of these numbers, both nationally and internationally. It addresses their impact on consumers’ choices, upon the careers of musicians and upon the policies that...
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Designing and Conducting Practice-Based Research Projects
A practical guide to conducting practice-based research projects in the arts, specifically aimed at undergraduates and new researchers. This is a textbook aimed primarily at upper undergraduate and Master’s students, including practical guidance, examples, exercises, and further resources. 10 b&a...
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Schechner Plays
A collection of performance texts ranging from orthodox plays to group-devised texts. The book traces from most recent to earliest Schechner's work as a "writer" and a "wrighter" -- the author of plays and the conceptualizer and leader of teams of artists. 20 b&w illus.
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Heavy Metal and Disability
A groundbreaking collection that examines the relationship between heavy metal and disability. The authors, some of whom define themselves as disabled, discuss a wide range of issues, including how people with disabilities engage with metal as musicians, fans, and how heavy metal constructs the d...
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The Lure of the Social
An intimate and personal exploration of the author’s journey following the development of the field of social practices in contemporary art: arguably the most significant shift in art world practices in the last two decades. A beautifully written exploration of key individuals, institutions and ...
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Performance Generating Systems in Dance
Analyzes the self-organizing dramaturgies of dance works that generate performance systematically. Provides effective resources for those who wish to study or realize the potential of performance generating systems in dance within the fields of choreography and dance dramaturgy, dance education, ...
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Dystopian and Utopian Impulses in Art Making
Explores a variety of artistic responses to contemporary global crises including climate emergency, global and local inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic. Focuses on how artistic production is adapting and offers a series of artistic, curatorial considerations and pedagogical proposals for the ...
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Music, Research, and Activism
This new collection suggests that we are experiencing an activist turn in music research. The idea is explored in a series of position papers and contemplative texts, where music researchers, music educators and artistic researchers reflect how their work and the position they occupy as professio...
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Phenomenology for Actors
This book explores how phenomenology – the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience – can provide new insights into acting and theatre-making. It explores Being-in-the-world in everyday life with practical exercises for rehearsal and performance. 7 b/w illus.
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Discusses the use of music in a well-loved and culturally significant game – Ocarina of Time. Examining music in different contexts, it identifies music’s role and function within the game and in gameplay overall, and uses this to investigate wider issues in music and media studies and fan cultur...
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Applied Theatre, Third Edition
Applied Theatre is recognized as the key text in the field of applied theatre and has been adopted by teaching programs around the world. Recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theatre Education in 2010. Third edition includes refreshed case studies, providing ex...
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Somatics in Dance, Ecology, and Ethics
Highly original essays by award-winning Sondra Fraleigh address the field of movement-based and dance somatics through lenses of ethics and ecology. Three new essays, new introductory material and postscript are included alongside essays previously published as journal articles brought together f...
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Landscape and the Moving Image
New exploration of how the moving image mediates our relationship to and understanding of landscapes. The focus is on artists’ film and video and draws on work from the 1970s to the present day. An informed, personal view from a high profile author considering if appreciation of nature’s aestheti...
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Following the Score
This book is a critical frame for a body of devised work that toured extensively nationally and internationally, The Ravel Trilogy. The three performances, Bolero (2014), Concerto (2016) and Solo (2018), set out to explore the dramaturgy of music and the musicality of drama. The playtexts are fra...
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Digital Embodiment and the Arts
A timely examination of the use of emerging technologies in the arts in recent decades, from the first wave of Virtual Reality through to the current use of Mixed, Augmented and Extended Realities. It highlights the necessity of understanding technological experiences through the assumption that ...
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The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series
This is the first book-length study of the music of Nobuo Uematsu, and focuses on his Final Fantasy soundtracks, exploring the dynamic relationship between the music and the stories behind the beloved video game series. Contributors are music and game scholars, based in the USA and UK. Foreword b...
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Town is the Garden Chapbooks
How might a rural agricultural town rethink its relationship to food and to food growing in an era of increasing awareness of climate and ecological emergency? These beautifully produced books capture the diverse approaches to this question by the Town is the Garden project in the northeast of Sc...
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A Cultural History of The Punisher
A close reading of one of the most murderous characters in popular culture. First introduced in 1974, the Punisher has inspired three movies, a Netflix series, and more than one thousand comics and graphic novels. His stories have celebrated, interrogated, and satirized the politics of vengeance....
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Community Arts Education
Global perspectives on the transverse, boundary-blurring possibilities of community arts education. Invoking ‘transversality’ as an overarching theoretical framework and a methodological structure, 55 contributors from sixteen countries offer studies and practical cases exploring the complexities...
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Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science
Gemma Anderson’s Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science introduces tested ways in which drawing as a research practice can enhance morphological insight, specifically within the natural sciences, mathematics and art.
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The Posthuman Condition
The Posthuman Condition argues that such questions are difficult to tackle given the concepts of human existence that we have inherited from humanism, many of which can no longer be sustained.
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Dancing with Parkinson's
This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson’s disease. Sara Houston argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs and challenges of people living with Parkinson’s...
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Softimage
With today's digital technology, the image is no longer a stable representation of the world, but a programmable view of a database that is updated in real time. It no longer functions as a political and iconic representation, but plays a vital role in synchronic data-to-data relationships. It is...
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Drawing
Despite recent technological changes that have digitized many forms of artistic creation, the practice of drawing, in the traditional sense, has remained constant. However, many publications about this subject rely on discipline-dependent distinctions to discuss the activity’s function. Drawing: ...
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