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Kantor: A Biography offers the first comprehensive English-language artistic biography of the Polish visual artist, avant-garde innovator and theatre practitioner Tadeusz Kantor (1915–90). This book……続きを見る

Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and chor……続きを見る

Riding the Rollercoaster tells the story of how artists and bands carve out long and successful careers in the music business, despite the numerous pitfalls and pratfalls. Who lasts in the music ind……続きを見る

En esta obra la cumbia no solo se escucha… se baila, se hereda, se transforma y se comparte. Los sonidos del acordeón, el bombo, la guacharaca, el cencerro, el güiro y los platillos resuenan desde C……続きを見る

On the cusp of the twenty-first century, the notion of art as revelation of reality held sway in film aesthetics and criticism. Where did this seemingly naive belief in the vocation of art originate……続きを見る

Los videojuegos son una de las industrias culturales y de ocio más importantes del mundo. Lejos de ser meros juguetes infantiles, los actuales juegos digitales se asemejan al cine y a la literatura ……続きを見る

This open access book presents the results and conclusions of research conducted by the author, and assisted by a team of young researchers brought together in the PuppetPlays project funded by the ……続きを見る

Takahata Isao (1935–2018), often referred to as the “Second Pillar” of the renowned Studio Ghibli, is one of the most esteemed animation directors in the history of the form. He is also the first, a……続きを見る

Wagner und Russland? Dieser Fragestellung, die in der deutschsprachigen Wagnerliteratur bislang als peripher angesehen wurde, geht Eckart Kröplin in seiner ausführlichen Kulturgeschichte nach, die a……続きを見る

Building on ideas first advanced by Arnold Schoenberg and later developed by Erwin Ratz, this book introduces a new theory of form for instrumental music in the classical style. The theory provides ……続きを見る

A comprehensive introduction to film music, this book provides a concise and illuminating summary of the process of film scoring, as well as a succinct overview of the rich history of contemporary f……続きを見る

L’histoire du Théâtre en France peut se diviser en quatre grandes périodes. La première, que nous appellerons la période latine, s’étend depuis la conquête jusqu’au douzième siècle ; la seconde est ……続きを見る

In this exploration of Cocteau Twins' quintessential album, Chris Tapley traces lines in all directions from Blue Bell Knoll to paint a revealing portrait of the enigmatic trio and their career-long……続きを見る

À partir d’archives souvent inédites, l’auteur retrace l’itinéraire théâtral de Romain Rolland et en montre le fil conducteur : l’engagement politique. De sa première pièce Les Loups en 1898, écrite……続きを見る

Join David in his lockdown journey through his 102 favorite songs, Two pages are dedicated for each song, analysing what makes them special, attempting to understand their meanings and supplying any……続きを見る

In Japanese Cinema and Punk, Mark Player examines how the do-it-yourself ethos of punk empowered a new generation of Japanese filmmakers during a period of crisis and change in Japan's film industry……続きを見る

Theorists of the soundtrack have helped us understand how the voice and music in the cinema impact a spectator's experience. James Buhler and Hannah Lewis edit in-depth essays from many of film musi……続きを見る

Black virality refers to the spread of Black performance that becomes uncontrollable because of its rapid and ubiquitous circulation through popular media. Gabriel A. Peoples examines Black people a……続きを見る

Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pu……続きを見る

An alternative history of the album, focussing on the format’s turbulent life through the digital music era since 1999 through to today, Body of Work explores why we should still bother to listen to……続きを見る

In the annals of music history, few figures have dominated the discussion of virtuosity as much as Franz Liszt. A flamboyant performer whose hair-raising technical feats at the piano created a sense……続きを見る

Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ''war against the obesity epidemic''. In ……続きを見る

A revelatory new account of Black innovation in American opera, showing how composers, performers, and critics redefined the genre both aesthetically and politically in the early twentieth century. ……続きを見る

Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is the definitive history of how a city danced its pain away. In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws fr……続きを見る

This accessible book outlines the key ideas that define the global phenomenon of applied theatre, not only its theoretical underpinning, its origins and practice, but also providing eight real-life ……続きを見る

El cine latinoamericano del desencanto pone en evidencia la relación que existe entre varios filmes contemporáneos de esta región y su realidad continental. En el contexto de otras obras fílmicas co……続きを見る

This book introduces the reader to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring new and challenging approaches to the subje……続きを見る

Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz draws differences between Western and Eastern European absurdism, points out similarities and adjacencies, and emphasises the function fulfilled by the theatre of the absurd ……続きを見る

History has been fodder for cinema from the silent era to the blockbuster present, a fact that has seldom pleased historians themselves. As pundits increasingly ponder “how Hollywood fails history,”……続きを見る