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Gestures of music theatre : the performativity of song and dance
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ISBN: 0199997179 9780199997176 1306152372 9781306152372 9780199997152 0199997152 9780199997169 0199997160 0199997187 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press,

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Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical theater, opera, theater, and other artistic practices, from Glee to Gardzienice, Beckett to Disney, Broadway to Turner-Prize-winning sound installation. The chapters draw together these diverse examples of vocality and physicality by exploring their affect rather than through considering them as texts. The book's contributors derive methodologies fro

Old-time music and dance : community and folk revival
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ISBN: 1282072676 9786612072673 0253111684 9780253111685 025334638X 9780253346384 9781282072671 6612072679 Year: 2005 Publisher: Bloomington : Quarry Books,

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In the summer of 1972, a group of young people in Bloomington, Indiana, began a weekly gathering with the purpose of reviving traditional American old-time music and dance. In time, the group became a kind of accidental utopia, a community bound by celebration and deliberately void of structure and authority. In this joyful and engaging book, John Bealle tells the lively history of the Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group -- how it was formed, how it evolved its unique culture, and how it grew to

Inna di dancehall : popular culture and the politics of identity in Jamaica
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ISBN: 9789766401689 9781435630895 1435630890 9766401683 9766401683 Year: 2006 Publisher: Jamaica : University of the Wet Indies Press,

Instant recess : building a fit nation 10 minutes at a time
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ISBN: 1282764446 9786612764448 0520947215 9780520947214 9780520263758 0520263758 9780520263765 0520263766 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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This lively, inspiring, and informative book zeroes in on the state of American fitness-persistently sedentary, plagued by obesity-and issues a clarion call to action that reaches across economic, racial, and educational lines. Toni Yancey finds that despite our best intentions and repeated resolutions to exercise, as well as a 40-year investment in fitness education and counseling, physical activity in all levels of society continues to plummet. In a warm, reader-friendly narrative that draws on solid scientific research, personal experience, and her own poetry, Yancey calls for a radically different approach: one that respects diversity and is grounded in the cultures of those most at risk. Instant Recess proposes regular ten-minute exercise breaks that utilize music and dance and are easily incorporated into school, work, and community life. Rather than encouraging unhealthful habits like cigarette breaks or high fat snacks, these "instant recesses" make the active choice the natural one. Here is a new paradigm for fitness and public health that promises vitality, well being, and a greater sense of community-demonstrating, as Yancey argues, that what's good for the waistline is good for the bottom line.


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Music makes me : Fred Astaire and jazz
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ISBN: 1283278367 0520950062 9786613278364 9780520950061 9781283278362 9780520268883 0520268881 9780520268906 0520268903 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century? Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930's, but in Music Makes Me, Todd Decker argues that Astaire's work as a dancer and choreographer -particularly in the realm of tap dancing-made a significant contribution to the art of jazz. Decker examines the full range of Astaire's work in filmed and recorded media, from a 1926 recording with George Gershwin to his 1970 blues stylings on television, and analyzes Astaire's creative relationships with the greats, including George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer. He also highlights Astaire's collaborations with African American musicians and his work with lesser known professionals-arrangers, musicians, dance directors, and performers.

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