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Chapter 4 Theatre for Influence : American Cultural and Philanthropic Mission…
Emerging from the superpowers’ covert attempts to counter their political and ideological influence without direct military confrontations, the Cold War was also enacted in the cultural sphere of many third world countries, especially Africa, which became a ‘site of encounter’ for the staging of US-Soviet theatre of influence. In West Africa, Ghana and Nigeria were strategically adopted a…
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Chapter 4 Localizing Aboriginal and Pacific performance on internationalized …
In 1967 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people successfully campaigned for a referendum for constitutional change, releasing them from policies restricting movement outside of their home states and territories of residence. This chapter interrogates the contested space for representation of Aboriginal performance in the years following the referendum. New companies for Aboriginal music an…
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After the Miners’ Strike
In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39’s creation, operation, and artistic practice during a period of convulsive political and social change. The reader is plunged into the national miners’ strike and the colla…
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- 9781800649132
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- A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher’s Britain: Volume 1
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Staging Interspaces in Contemporary British Theatre
The research project “Performing Interspaces: Social Fluidities in Contemporary Theatre”, whose primary output is this monograph, began as an imperative to account for spaces that are awkward, evade attention, or, when they receive it, rarely do so because they produce feelings of desirability, warmth, or contentment. These spaces are sometimes fixed and others mobile, but always,…
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- 9783031548925
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- XIV, 304
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European Theatre Migrants in the Age of Empire: Personal Experiences, Transna…
This open access volume explores the crucial yet insufficiently addressed phenomenon of European theatre migration in the long nineteenth century. It argues that theatre migration went far beyond the popular phenomenon of touring, significantly shaping the historical discourse on theatre and mobility. The hidden and multifaceted histories of European theatre migration that this book seeks to ex…
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The Exhibitor as Producer = Stage Prologues in American Movie Theatres, 1917-…
This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues emerge out of prior practices? Who were the exhibitors most involved? What characteristics would come to define prologues? How widespread did they become not only in metropolitan …
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Aussprachenormen für das Sprechen und Singen auf der Bühne im 19. Jahrhundert
Ulrich Thilo Hoffmann hat Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik in Halle/S. studiert. In den Kunst- und Forschungsprojekten Wagner-Lesarten und The Wagner Cycles berät er Künstler während der Probenprozesse zur Gesangsaussprache in den Werken Richard Wagners. Bis 2023 war er an der Entwicklung der Deutschen Aussprachedatenbank der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg beteiligt. Als freibe…
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- 978-3-7329-8902-7
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- Schriften zur Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik
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Performing Citizenship
This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investi…
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- 978-3-319-97502-3
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- Performance Philosophy
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- XII, 318
Cultural Convergence : The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions in the comparative contexts of avant-garde theatre, Hollywood cinema, popular culture, and the development of Irish-language theatre, respectively. The overarching objecti…
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Stage women, 1900–50: Female theatre workers and professional practice
Stage women, 1900–50 explores the many ways in which women conceptualised, constructed and participated in networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950. A timely volume full of original research, the book explores women’s complex negotiations of their agency over both their labour and public representation, and their use of personal and p…
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