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By Tricia Austin

This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial theory and design theory. Examples of narrative…

Hardback – 2020-06-01 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Design Studies

Edited by Gianmario Borio, Giovanni Giuriati, Alessandro Cecchi, Marco Lutzu

Investigating Musical Performance considers the wide range of perspectives on musical performance made tangible by the cross-disciplinary studies of the last decades and encourages a comparison and revision of theoretical and analytical paradigms. The chapters present different approaches to this…

Hardback – 2020-05-31 
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Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century

By Simeon Alev

Blending the insights of musicians and psychologists from D.W. Winnicott to Gregory Bateson to Ornette Coleman, Jazz and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking exploration of improvisation that reveals its potential to transform our experience of ourselves and the challenges we face as a species. What…

Hardback – 2020-05-31 
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SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music

By Martin Curda

The Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899–1944) is commonly positioned in the history of twentieth-century music as a representative of Leoš Janáček’s compositional school and as one of the Jewish composers imprisoned by the Nazis in the concentration camp of Terezín (Theresienstadt). However, the nature…

Hardback – 2020-05-15 
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Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music After 1900

By Stein Helge Solstad

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation is an examination of musical interplay and the ways implicit (sub-conscious) and explicit (conscious) knowledge appear during improvisation. The practice-based research inquiry includes: interviews and interplay with five world-class jazz guitarists, Lage Lund…

Hardback – 2020-05-07 
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SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music

By Mark Westgarth

Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815-1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects illuminates the less-studied roles played by dealers in the nineteenth-century antique and curiosity markets.…

Hardback – 2020-04-29 
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The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950

By Ken McLeod

Driving Identities examines long-standing connections between popular music and the automotive industry and how this relationship has helped to construct and reflect various socio-cultural identities. It also challenges common assumptions regarding the divergences between industry and art and…

Hardback – 2020-04-29 
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Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

Edited by Andrea Olsen Lam, Rossitza Schroeder

For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs no introduction. His publications transformed the way art historians approach medieval art through his insightful integration of rhetoric, poetry and non-canonical objects into the study of Byzantine art…

Hardback – 2020-04-22 
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Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

By Albert Alhadeff

This book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Géricault’s depiction of black people, his…

Hardback – 2020-04-22 
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Routledge Research in Art and Race

By Nikos Papastergiadis

Museums of the Commons examines L’Internationale, an ongoing confederation between six museums and contemporary art institutions in Europe. Drawing on extensive interviews with the directors, curators, public programs officers in all the museums, as well as artists, critics and members associated…

Hardback – 2020-04-21 
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Edited by Kim D Weinert, Karen Crawley, Kieran Tranter

This book engages with the place of law and legality within Australia’s distinctive contribution to global televisual culture. Australian popular culture has created a lasting legacy – for good or bad – of representations of law, lawyers and justice ‘down-under.’ Within films and television of…

Hardback – 2020-04-20 
Routledge

By Alexander Sanchez-Behar

John Adams: A Research and Information Guide offers the first comprehensive guide to the musical works and literature on one of the leading American composers of our time. The research guide catalogs and summarizes materials relating to Adams’s work, providing detailed annotated bibliographic…

Hardback – 2020-04-16 
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Routledge Music Bibliographies