Bøger udgivet af Harwood-Academic Publishers

A collection of the verbal language of dance practitioners and researchers. This work presents people in dance, what they do, their movement, their sound and the space in which they work - from the standpoint of performers, choreographers, audiences and teachers.

This study is an attempt to locate the practice of consumption within more general strategies of social self-definition. The essays in this volume are addressed to the understanding of consumption in terms of a larger matrix of social identity and the cultural strategies connected with it.

Takes a wide-ranging look at the new developments in music-making and musical aesthetics made possible by the advent of the computer and digital information processing.

This work brings together the Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian approaches in theatre by relating to the Palestinian theme as it appears in the Jewish-Israeli theatre and by attempting to characterize the Palestinian theatre in general.

This account, analysis and critical evaluation of the work of Adolphe Appia (1862-1928) demonstrates how his far-sighted imagination embraced the fundamental reform of scenic design, the use of theatrical space, and an expanded conception of the nature and possibilities of theatrical art.

An analysis of eight of the largest US welfare programmes affecting children. Programmes discussed include: Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the Food Stamp Program, WIC and School Lunch, Head Start and the Earned Income Tax Credit.

This collection of essays covers the related areas of aesthetics and politics, both in the field of theatre and in everyday life. Each contributor seeks to illustrate how drama subverts the foundations of the accepted models of perception and how it mediates on its own conventions.

A collection of essays which discuss various aspects of the work of Merce Cunningham - creative artist and choreographer. Contributors include; Joan Acocella, Elliot Caplan, William Fetterman, John Holzaepfel, Gordon Mumma, Nelson Rivera, Thecla Schiphorst, David Vaughan and Marilyn Vaughan Drown.