Music & Drama Books

New and Published Books

1. Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies

   Edited by Bruce Henderson, Noam Ostrander

   This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia

   Edited by Poonam Trivedi, Minami Ryuta

   Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

   This book reviews the "playing" of Shakespeare in which there is a re-staging and a re-writing -- through adaptation, appropriation, or acculturation -- of the Western Shakespeare into the gestural, symbolic, stylized, or ritualized worlds of Asian theatre languages. It examines this interface in...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Music Education

   Edited by Keith Swanwick

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   Music education is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study. It is also a complex and contested area in which there is a considerable variety of published work, ranging from the justificatory to the critical, and from advice on pedagogical practice to provocative alternative...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust

   Kafka's kitsch

   By David A. Brenner

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   David A. Brenner examines how Jews in Central Europe developed one of the first "ethnic" or "minority" cultures in modernity. Not exclusively "German" or "Jewish," the experiences of German-speaking Jewry in the decades prior to the Third Reich and the Holocaust were also negotiated in encounters...

   Published July 7th 2008 by Routledge
5. Musical Performance in the Diaspora

   Edited by Tina K Ramnarine

   This book illustrates how ethnographic investigation of musical performances might contribute to the analysis of diaspora. It embraces diverse examples such as 'mourning and cultures of survival' amongst Aboriginal and Jewish communities in Australia, remembering a Kazakh 'homeland' in Western...

   Published January 9th 2008 by Routledge
6. Two Plays from the New Russia

   By Daniil Gink, John Freedman, Alexei Burykin

   First published in 2004...

   Published January 22nd 1998 by Routledge
7. The Plays of Ernst Toller

   A Revaluation

   By Cecil Davies

   This book is the fullest and most detailed study yet published in English of Ernst Toller's plays and their most significant productions. In particular the productions directed by Karl-Heinz Martin, Jurgen Fehling and Erwin Piscator are closely analyzed and the author demonstrates how, brilliant...

   Published September 4th 1997 by Routledge