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""Explores connections between storytelling and design, [examining] the psychology of visual communication from...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume examine musical instrument collectors and their reasons and means for collecting:...  Read More >>

A concise survey of the evolution of Latinidad in musical theatre over the past century published in the Topics...  Read More >>

Drawing on new research, this wide-ranging book includes chapters by both scholars and performers. It gives proper...  Read More >>

Through the frame of Zoom, this collection of essays examines the rapid emergence of videoconferencing in everyday...  Read More >>

The first study of the translations of Andy Warhol's writing and ideas, Translating Warhol reveals how translation...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of South African composer and choral director, Mzilikazi Khumalo, and his role within...  Read More >>

This book brings to life the efforts of Mura Dehn to record, analyse and champion the development of jazz dance...  Read More >>

An invaluable resource for readers seeking to understand the history and practice of folk music and song across...  Read More >>

Mohri makes noise from the invisible, drawing sound out of nothingness through her carefully constructed and recorded...  Read More >>

This volume explores the notion of a heteroglobal approach to understand global circulation of performance. This...  Read More >>

A history of the formation of modern film studies in Britain, revealing how the collaborative work of Paddy Whannel...  Read More >>

This book argues that the first step towards adaptive and resilient futures is making a fuller spectrum of the complexity...  Read More >>

Reflects on the dark rise and fall of an ambitious rock music collective in the upper Midwest. Matthew Pitt's...  Read More >>

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential...  Read More >>

Ibsen in Context identifies thirty different contexts for understanding Ibsen's life and career at home, and considers...  Read More >>

Introducing readers to the broad socio-cultural contexts that shaped Chekhov's works and legacy, this insightful...  Read More >>

This monograph traces the first century of Gothic ivory sculpture (1230–1330) through a panoply of new sources,...  Read More >>

Teller's new photographic diary offers an inside look into his artistic renewal, which he credits to his wife and...  Read More >>

Like Eliot's ""hollow men"" of the poem, Cenci's sculptures are helplessly and hopelessly unmoored from both time...  Read More >>

On Uzbekistan's solar furnace, a beacon of modernist infrastructure, and its potential role in shaping the country's...  Read More >>

Recounting the genesis and production of the 2nd Art Quadriennale in Mussolini's Rome, with works by Marino Marini,...  Read More >>

In celebration of 50 up-and-coming Italian artists of the 21st century The theme of Rome's 18th Art Quadriennale,...  Read More >>

Explores the impact of portable video recording technology on the development of activism produced by different...  Read More >>