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Performing Arts

Dance Claimed Me A Biography of Pearl Primus

Schwartz Peggy, Schwartz Murray M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187939, ISBN: HB: 9780300155341, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In "The Dance Claimed Me", Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an...

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Literary Criticism

Eloquent Shakespeare A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Dramatic Works with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue

Logan Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226006314, ISBN: HB: 9780226491158, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm

An actor's deepest desire is to be understood. But when asked to pronounce such words as "chanson", "phantasime", or "quaestor", many otherwise unflappable actors can be rendered speechless. "The Eloquent Shakespeare" aims to untie those tongues a...

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Culture Studies

Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life

Gross Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226005508, ISBN: HB: 9780226309583, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 22x14 cm, 24 halftones, 4 colour illus.

The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gestu...

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Performing Arts

New Light Shine

Murdoch Shannon, Guare John

ISBN: PB: 9780300184853, Yale University Press, September 2012
88 pp., 22.9x14 cm

When he was twelve, Joe snuck into the field on the edge of town and saw the Town Mayor with his sister Peregrine. This one moment has overwhelmed and transformed his life, becoming the only thing that holds any importance to him. Years later, in jai...

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Performing Arts

American Circus

Weber Soros Susan, Ames Kenneth, Wittmann Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300185393, Yale University Press, August 2012
432 pp., 27.3x20.4 cm, 327 colour illus.

The circus is a source of nostalgia for Americans of all ages, either from memories of attending P. T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth", or through the colourful evocations in many movies, television programmes, and books. Interest in the circus phe...

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In Performance

Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays

Miyagawa Chiori

ISBN: PB: 9780857420206, Seagull Books, May 2012
264 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa's "Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays" explore themes of memory and identity. Her plays combine poetic language with harsh reality, and time and space are fluid in the worlds she creates – they conver...

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Fashion

Performing Arts

Staging Fashion, 1880-1920 Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke

Majer Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780300181135, Yale University Press, February 2012
176 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 220 colour illus.

Although Jane Hading (1859-1940), Lily Elsie (1886-1962), and Billie Burke (1884-1970) gained fame as stage actresses, their popular appeal also rested on their ability to cultivate a glamorous appearance. Their careers illustrate the early transform...

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Contemporary Art

Performing Arts

Avant-Garde Race, Religion, War

Sell Mike

ISBN: PB: 9781906497996, Seagull Books, February 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones

In "The Avant-Garde", Mike Sell rejects the common idea that the avant-garde is only about art and insists that it is much more than a European phenomenon. In doing so, he redefines the historical, geographical, ideological, disciplinary, and theoret...

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