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Author |
: Wendy Hilton |
Publisher |
: Pendragon Press |
Total Pages |
: 478 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 094519398X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780945193982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Dance and Music of Court and Theater by : Wendy Hilton
This collection of selected writings of Ms. Hilton includes a complete facsimile of her 1981 book Dance of Court & Theater (no longer available) as well as two significant articles, and a notated triple-meter danse � deux by LouisP�cour. Book One (the facsimile) provides in-depth analysis of primary sources on dance of the baroque period.The main body of the text is devoted to mastery of the Beauchamp-Feuillet notation system,which includes the relationships of steps to music in such dance types as the menuet,gavotte, bourr�e, sarabande, passacaille, loure, gigue, and entr�e grave. Instruction is also given on style, bows and courtesies, the use of the hat, and the ballroom menuet ordinaire as given by Pierre Rameau.Book Two adds theslow Seventeenth-Century French Courante; A survey of the 56 dances extant to music by J.B. Lully with their airs and some of the more virtuosic, theatrical step-units in notation; Louis P�cour's ballroom dance Aimable Vainqueur (1701 in six pages of dance notation with a five-part score of Andr� Campra's music from Hesione (1700)and an updated bibliography.
Author |
: Wendy Hilton-Morrow |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 441 |
Release |
: 2015-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136291340 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136291342 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sexual Identities and the Media by : Wendy Hilton-Morrow
Sexual Identities and the Media encourages students to examine media as a site of negotiation for how people make sense of their own and others’ sexual identities. Taking a critical/cultural approach, Wendy Hilton-Morrow and Kathleen Battles weave together theory, synthesis of existing research, and original analysis of contemporary media examples in order to explore key areas of debate, including: an historical context for contemporary GLBTQ representations; the advantages and limitations of media visibility, including a discussion of the strengths and limitations of stereotype research and the quest for "positive" representations; the role of consumer culture in constructing GLBTQ identities; strategies of mainstream media resistance by GLBTQ community members, including oppositional/queer reading strategies and the production of media products by and for the GLBTQ community; the complexities of comedy as a popular narrative device in GLBTQ portrayals; the closet as a structuring metaphor in both GLBTQ identities and engagement with media; media representations of GLBTQ bodies as sites of non-normative desires and gender identities. Featuring an enormous range of discussion questions and case studies—from celebrity coming-out narratives, transgender models, and slash fiction writers to Glee and Modern Family—this textbook offers a timely, informative, and demystifying introduction to this vital intersection in contemporary culture.
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Total Pages |
: 16 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: PURD:32754075468995 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Author |
: Lynn Brooks |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2008-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780299225339 |
ISBN-13 |
: 029922533X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women’s Work by : Lynn Brooks
Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women’s roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800. Through dance, women asserted power in spheres largely dominated by men: the court, the theater, and the church. As women’s dance worlds intersected with men’s, their lives and visions were supported or opposed, creating a complex politics of creative, spiritual, and political expression. From a women’s religious order in the thirteenth-century Low Countries that used dance as a spiritual rite of passage to the salon culture of eighteenth-century France where dance became an integral part of women’s cultural influence, the writers in this volume explore the meaning of these women’s stories, performances, and dancing bodies, demonstrating that dance is truly a field across which women have moved with finesse and power for many centuries past.
Author |
: Lauren Rosewarne |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2013-08-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780313399343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0313399344 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Taboo by : Lauren Rosewarne
America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies. Flatulence ... male nudity ... abortion ... masturbation: these are just a few of the taboo topics in the United States. What do culturally enforced silences about certain subjects say about our society—and our latent fears? This work provides a broad yet detailed overview of popular culture's most avoided topics to explain why they remain off-limits and examines how they are presented in contemporary media—or, in many cases, delicately explored using euphemism and innuendo. The author offers fascinating, in-depth analysis of the meaning behind these portrayals of a variety of both mundane and provocative taboos, and identifies how new television programs, films, and advertising campaigns intentionally violate longstanding cultural taboos to gain an edge in the marketplace.
Author |
: Georgia Cowart |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2008-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226116389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226116387 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Triumph of Pleasure by : Georgia Cowart
With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J. Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.
Author |
: Samuel A. Chambers |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2009-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857716002 |
ISBN-13 |
: 085771600X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Queer Politics of Television by : Samuel A. Chambers
"The Queer Politics of Television" is a radical book, which brings together the fields of political theory and television studies. In one of the first books to do so, Samuel A. Chambers exposes and explores the cultural politics of television by treating television shows - including "Six Feet Under", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Desperate Housewives", "The L Word", and "Big Love" - as serious, important texts and reading them in detail through the lens of queer theory. Chambers makes the case for the profound significance of 'the cultural politics of television': the way in which the text of a television show itself engages with the politics of its day. He argues for queer theory's essential contribution to any understanding of the political, and initiates a larger project of queer television studies, treading the same path as queer film studies. This book makes an important and fresh contribution to queer theory and to the understanding of television as politics.
Author |
: Judith Bennahum |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2005-07-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135878306 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135878307 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lure of Perfection by : Judith Bennahum
THE LURE OF PERFECTION: FASHION AND BALLET, 1780-1830 offers a unique look at how ballet influenced contemporary fashion and women's body image, and how street fashions in turn were reflected by the costumes worn by ballet dancers. Through years of research, the author has traced the interplay between fashion, social trends, and the development of dance. During the 18th century, women literally took up twice as much space as men; their billowing dresses ballooned out from their figures, sometimes a full 55 inches, to display costly jewelry and fine brocade work; similar costumes appeared on stage. But clothing also limited her movement; it literally disabled them, making the dances themselves little more than tableaux. Movement was further inhibited by high shoes and tight corsets; thus the image of the rigidly straight, long-lined dancer is as much a product of clothing as aesthetics. However, with changing times came new trends. An increased interest in natural movement and the common folk led to less-restrictive clothing. As viewers demanded more virtuosic dancers, women literally danced their way to freedom. THE LURE OF PERFECTION will interest students of dance and cultural history, and women's studies. It is a fascinating, well-researched look at the interplay of fashion, dance, and culture-still very much a part of our world today.
Author |
: Susanne Franco |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134947195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134947194 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dance Discourses by : Susanne Franco
Focusing on politics, gender, and identities, a group of international dance scholars provide a broad overview of new methodological approaches – with specific case studies – and how they can be applied to the study of ballet and modern dance. With an introduction exploring the history of dance studies and the development of central themes and areas of concerns in the field, the book is then divided into three parts: politics explores 'Ausdruckstanz' – an expressive dance tradition first formulated in the 1920s by dancer Mary Wigman and carried forward in the work of Pina Bausch and others gender examines eighteenth century theatrical dance – a time when elaborate sets, costumes, and plots examined racial and sexual stereotypes identity is concerned with modern dance. Exploring contemporary analytical approaches to understanding performance traditions, Dance Discourses' pedagogical structure makes it ideal for courses in performing arts and humanities.
Author |
: Meredith Little |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2009-01-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253013729 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253013720 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dance and the Music of J. S. Bach by : Meredith Little
A unique study of dance forms and rhythms in the Baroque composer’s repertoire. Stylized dance music and music based on dance rhythms pervade Bach’s compositions. Although the music of this very special genre has long been a part of every serious musician’s repertoire, little has been written about it. The original edition of this book addressed works that bore the names of dances—a considerable corpus. In this expanded version of their practical and insightful study, Meredith Little and Natalie Jenne apply the same principles to the study of a great number of Bach’s works that use identifiable dance rhythms but do not bear dance-specific titles. Part I describes French dance practices in the cities and courts most familiar to Bach. The terminology and analytical tools necessary for discussing dance music of Bach’s time are laid out. Part II presents the dance forms that Bach used, annotating all of his named dances. Little and Jenne draw on choreographies, harmony, theorists’ writings, and the music of many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century composers in order to arrive at a model for each dance type. Additionally, in Appendix A all of Bach’s named dances are listed in convenient tabular form; included are the BWV number for each piece, the date of composition, the larger work in which it appears, the instrumentation, and the meter. Appendix B supplies the same data for pieces recognizable as dance types but not named as such. More than ever, this book will stimulate both the musical scholar and the performer with a new perspective at the rhythmic workings of Bach’s remarkable repertoire of dance-based music.