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The Culture of Jazz is a collection of essays that view jazz from an anthropological perspective. It focuses on aspects of jazz culture and the ways in which jazz scrutinizes the American lifestyle. Jazz musicians filter their perspective on culture...

Rainbow Jews deals with the intersection of gay and Jewish identity in American and Israeli film and theater, from the 1960s to the present. Its main area of interest is the extent to which Jewish creative voices in the performing arts have constructed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420811728Author Arthur PekarFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 171g

This book exposes and traces a previously unrecognized performance tradition of extraordinary Jewish women in the Diaspora, from Rachel and Sarah Bernhardt in Nineteenth Century France to Roseanne and Sandra Bernhard in late Twentieth Century America...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781329914254Author Michael WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

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Long form scenic improv began with the Harold. The comic philosophy of this form started an era of comedy marked by support, trust, and collaboration. This book tells of the Harold, beginning with the development of improv theatre, through the tensions...

What should an actor be thinking onstage? This overlooked, important question is the crux of this new book that combines psychological theory, numerous practical exercises, and a thorough and wide-reaching examination of inner monologue in various forms...

Collective creation - the practice of collaboratively devising works of performance - rose to prominence not simply as a performance making method, but as an institutional model. By examining theatre practices in Europe and North America, this book...

Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781320586344Author Joanny JimenezFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 59g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781105812262Author @WorldofdebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013276903Author Adriana Margareta DancusFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464421986Author Michael HuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 227g

Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachie introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention,...

Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244410315Author Angus WhitfordFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 209g

Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998137650Author 7.99dan KelsoFormat HardbackPage Count 82Imprint Playing with PlaysPublisher Playing with PlaysWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Here are 40 lute fantasies from the Late Renaissance Lute compiled by Elias Mertel, (15601 - 1626), who was perhaps the best known German lutenist of his day. These pieces have been transcribed for the baritone ukulele, Renaissance guitar, low G ukelele,...

Here are 45 compositions by Robert de Vis e from the 17th Century transcribed for the baritone ukulele, Renaissance guitar, low G ukelele, and many other four course instruments. Of course, they may all be played on the guitar.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006110610Author Roger Anton LedergerberFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 240g

A companion volume to the author's Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases (2002), this reference work chronicles 298 cases of what can be broadly defined as "celebrity" homicides from the early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983553731Author Adria FirestoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Adria Firestone International, LLCPublisher Adria Firestone International,...

One dimensional television characters are a thing of the past-today's popular shows feature intricate storylines and well developed characters. From the brooding Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries to the tough-minded Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead,...

For those who wish to appear on stage as well as those who prefer to work behind the scenes, ""Career Opportunities in Theater and the Performing Arts, Third Edition"" profiles more than 70 jobs in all branches of theater and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954575076Author Sean EganFormat PaperbackImprint Askill PublishingPublisher Askill PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

The Classical Monologue in two volumes, one for men and one for women, is a fresh selection of the best speeches from the repertoire of the classical theatre, from the Greeks to the beginning of the 20th century. These great dramatic monologues--from all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615845012Author Bob MichelucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Robert V. MichelucciPublisher Robert V. MichelucciWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578829739Author Suzanne Von SchaackFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Suzanne Von Schaack ProductionsPublisher Suzanne Von Schaack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359258895Author Michael WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

"This book demonstrates Case's continued dominance of the field of lesbian performance studies. . . . Case's dense, rich, and complex work very likely will be a central text for anyone interested in debating the changing theoretical landscape for...

This project addresses the contexts of Practice as Research and how to undertake it. This second iteration updates thinking and practices but sustains a direct and clear approach on how to become a practitioner-researcher. New features include an...

Pity the ""extras."" Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--right through the dream factory's golden era. The struggles of extras to unionise were followed by internal struggles as the extras fought...

Critics and audiences often judge films, books and other media as "great" -but what does that really mean? This collection of new essays examines the various criteria by which degrees of greatness (or not-so) are constructed-whether by...

Literally the last word for Hollywood trivia buffs, a celebrity death certificate is also strangely compelling. Its matter-of-fact reportage makes the famous ordinary, illuminating previously well-lit profiles with the unfiltered light of the everyday...

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedians Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, country singer Glen Campbell, playwright Sam Shepard and actor-singer Jim Nabors. Obituaries of...

Dimitrios Semsis alias Salonikios was an outstanding musician, composer and recording director. He was one of the key persons in the recording business in Greece from the mid-1920s to his death in 1950. Semsis' biography combined with the elaborate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933224315Author Balathasar PlantaFormat PaperbackImprint Bold StrummerPublisher Bold Strummer