Search results for “[Subject: dance-jazz]”

• Author(s): Ramsay Burt • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Dance - Classical & BalletIn this challenging and lively book, Ramsay Burt examines the representation of...

• Author(s): John Szwed • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzA vital tool in understanding and appreciating jazz -- introducing the key figures, theory, and the con...

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Prominent dance critic Arlene Croce wrote for The New Yorker during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Through mor...

• Author(s): Maurice Jackson • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzThe familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans...

• Author(s): Cheryl Pallant • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Based upon the author's lifetime practices as a dancer, poet and teacher, this innovative approach to developing body a...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Barbara S. Glass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinatin...

• Author(s): Jeremy Yudkin • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzFocusing on one of the legendary musicians in jazz, this book examines Miles Davis's often overlooke...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): David Dicaire • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The story of the first roughly half century of jazz is really the story of some of the greatest musicians of all time. S...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Harrison Blum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Both Buddhism and dance invite the practitioner into present-moment embodiment. The rise of Western Buddhism, sa...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Jo Baim • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Dance - GeneralIn Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon Jo Baim dispels common stereotypes of the tango and tells the real story behind...

• Author(s): G. Thomas Couser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects--persons who are liable to exposure by ...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Joan Cass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet In dance, the choreographer creates, the dancer performs and the viewer observes. This work is a hand...

• Author(s): Julie Ellison • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

• Author(s): Anthony Shay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General This study describes and analyzes the phenomenal popularity of exotic dance forms in America. Throughout the twen...

• Author(s): Richard F. Calichman • Publisher: Cornell Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell Press • BISAC: PhilosophersThis work focuses on the writings of the postwar Japanese thinker and sinologist Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977). It presents itself...

• Author(s): Herb Wong | Paul Simeon Fingerote • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Jazz Dr. Herb Wong (1926-2014) was an internationally recognized jazz industry leader ...

• Author(s): Jennifer Fisher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet Part memoir, part dance history and ethnography, this critical study explores ballet's power to...

• Author(s): George Mariscal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - Spanish & PortugueseThis ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by ...

• Author(s): Carla Stalling Huntington • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Modern Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social hi...

• Author(s): Nyama McCarthy-Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Regional & Ethnic Issues of race, class, gender and religion permeate the study of contemporary dance, result...

• Author(s): Tracie Matysik • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyReforming the Moral Subject explores a movement known as "ethics reform" that flourished in Central Europe be...

• Author(s): James A. Harrod • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Imagine an educational television series featuring America's greatest jazz artists in performance, airing every week f...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): Luce Irigaray | Luce Irigaray | Sylvere Lotringer • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Gender StudiesA collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, t...

• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - TheoryReflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlighten...