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  1. Critical Live Art

    Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

    Edited by Dominic Johnson

    Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term often tends to conceal. Live Art can be usefully defined as a peculiarly British variation on particular legacies of cultural experimentation – a historically and...

    Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge

  2. Historical Wig Styling Set

    By Allison Lowery

    Let Historical Wig Styling: Anicent Egypt to the 1830s and Historical Wig Styling: Victorian to the Present be your guides to creating beautiful, historically accurate hairstyles for your theatrical productions. Each chapter begins with artwork of historic figures that influenced the...

    Published April 2nd 2013 by Focal Press

  3. Politics and the Art of Commemoration

    Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

    By Katherine Hite

    Series: Interventions

    Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between...

    Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject

    Edited by Fintan Walsh, Matthew Causey

    Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

    This book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledges the important close relationship between the discourses and practices historically while maintaining that theatre and performance can enlighten ways of being with...

    Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Preserving Dance Across Time and Space

    Edited by Lynn Brooks, Joellen Meglin

    Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping dances, performances, and choreographers’...

    Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge

  6. The Music Documentary

    Acid Rock to Electropop

    Edited by Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs

    Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

    The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural...

    Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Honoring the Code

    Conversations with Great Game Designers

    By Matt Barton

    If you want to be successful in any area of game development—game design, programming, graphics, sound, or publishing—you should know how standouts in the industry approach their work and address problems. In Honoring the Code: Conversations with Great Game Designers, 16 groundbreaking game...

    Published March 25th 2013 by A K Peters/CRC Press

  8. International Who's Who in Classical Music 2013

    29th Edition

    Edited by Europa Publications

    Series: Biographical Reference Series

    The International Who’s Who in Classical Music 2013 is a vast source of biographical and contact information for singers, instrumentalists, composers, conductors, managers and more. Each entrant has been given the opportunity to update his or her information for the new improved...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge

  9. International Who's Who in Popular Music 2013

    15th Edition

    Edited by Europa Publications

    Series: Biographical Reference Series

    International Who's Who in Popular Music 2013 gives biographical information and contact details for some of the most talented and influential artists and individuals from the world of popular music. Now in its fifteenth edition, there are over 7,000 biographies charting...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Indian Folk Theatres

    By Julia Hollander

    Series: Theatres of the World

    Indian Folk Theatres is theatre anthropology as a lived experience, containing detailed accounts of recent folk theatre shows as well as historical and cultural context. It looks at folk theatre forms from three corners of the Indian subcontinent: Tamasha, song and dance entertainments from...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge