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The Performing Observer
The Performing Observer is a collection of short critical writings on contemporary art performance and photography written over the course of the past two decades. These texts were originally published in a variety of settings including art magazines and exhibition catalogues online journals and websites.
A wide range of global practitioners are analysed from emerging to established artists. As the title suggests Patrick feels that he is simultaneously performing a role while observing and writing about the field. The intention is to present a well-informed but jargon free survey of many significant developments in contemporary art and culture. Among the artists discussed are: Francis Alÿs Laurie Anderson Chris Burden William Eggleston Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol.
The book examines an important series of interconnected contemporary art practices. Layering writings on performance-based work material forms and photography it positions performance within a larger context. The artists selected are genuinely international with a strong focus on the southern hemisphere and are grouped together in sections Patrick calls Performance Photography Publicness Video Books and Exhibitions.
It aims to make sense of a specific modality of art making with an interesting - and to a degree unspoken - interest in art writing itself. Both elements are compelling separately but especially so together.
Accessibly written and especially approachable for a range of interested readers. It offers scholarly and critical depth while retaining a writing style that will appeal beyond a strictly scholarly audience. It will appeal to readers closely involved in contemporary art theory and practice whether students artists academics or simply curious to know more.
Under the Counter
Prior to 2000 it was a criminal offence to sell hardcore pornography in Britain. Despite this there was a thriving alternative economy producing and distributing such material “under the counter” of Soho’s bookshops and via mail-order. British entrepreneurs circumvented obscenity laws to satisfy the demand for uncensored adult films and profit from their enterprise with the corrupt Obscene Publications Squad permitting them to trade.
By the late 1960s Britain had developed an international reputation for producing ‘rollers’ short films distributed on 8mm which were smuggled out of Britain for sale in Western Europe. Following an exposé by Britain’s tabloid press a crackdown on police corruption and several high-profile obscenity trials the trade was all but decimated with pornography smuggled in from Europe dominating the market.
Under the Counter is the first book of its kind to investigate Britain’s trade in illicit pornographic 8mm film. Drawing on extensive archival research including the use of legal records police files media reportage and interviews with those who were involved in the business Under the Counter tells the story of Britain’s trade in 8mm hardcore pornographic films and its regulation incorporating ideas from cultural studies political economy history and criminology.
Under the Counter is a scholarly monograph that will be of interest to researchers across a wide range of disciplines and will be of use to students at undergraduate Masters level and PhD.
The book will be of particular relevance to students and researchers interested in the study of pornography sexual cultures illicit media enterprise and entrepreneurship but also those with an interest in film production and distribution particularly within a British context. The theoretical frameworks that underpin the book mean that researchers with an interest in the creative industries will be able to make use of it and the book makes a contribution to media and cultural history.
It is suitable for use on university courses relating to these specific areas specifically media and communication film studies creative industries and potentially on criminology or socio-legal studies given the books attention to obscenity law and regulation of illicit practices.
Leaping into Dance Literacy through the Language of Dance®
The main aim of this book is to present the theory and purpose underpinning the approaches to dance literacy as explored by the Language of Dance® community in the USA and UK. Through their teacher training programs they are changing the face of dance-based dance literacy using motif notation.
Through their teacher training programs they are changing the face of dance-based dance literacy using motif notation. This book reveals how dance notation literacy has changed due to practices being focused on constructivist and constructionist pedagogy. Based on work by dance educator Ann Hutchinson Guest and expanded upon by her protégés this is the first book of its kind to bring together theory praxis original research outcomes taxonomies model lesson plans learning domain taxonomies of dance and voices of dance teachers who have explored using dance notation literacy. We are in a new era for educating with dance notation focusing on learners’ engagement by making connections between the learning domains using constructivist and constructionist learning approaches.
Arts-literate dancers can deepen their dance craft and transfer their arts knowledge capacities and skills to lifelong learning. Dance-based dance literacy practices using notation enhance learners’ flexibility adaptability self-direction initiative productivity responsibility leadership and cross-cultural skills.
The book will appeal to dance educators focusing on cognitive and metacognitive learning in dance using communication problem-solving and critical thinking.
Useful for preschool and primary teachers aiming to integrate dance into classroom experiences and for secondary teachers teaching dance and looking to upgrade their approach to dance literacy so students are able to achieve higher level cognitive learning problem solving and social skills in dance classrooms.
Choreographers and dance teachers will find new approaches to dance making and to expressing their craft using a system that is well codified and now augmented with examples to guide them with making their own projects and processes.
Anyone with an interest in the idea of dance literacy will find concrete examples of how to put their knowledge into practice to advance their teaching and dance making.
Performing Institutions
Performing Institutions: Contested Sites and Structures of Care builds upon scholarly work rooted in the social and cultural histories of education self-organization activist practices performance design and artistic research (at)tending to the ways that institutions are necessarily political and performed.
By evoking the idea of Performing Institutions it foregrounds all kinds of ‘actors’ that engage with (re)imagining creative practices - social artistic and pedagogical - that critically interact with institutional frameworks and the broader local and global society of which these institutions are part.
With case studies and critical reflections from Denmark Ireland Finland the UK Canada the USA Chile Asia and Australasia contributors show how they envision or pursue performing artistic cultural social and educational practices as caring engagements with contested sites addressing the following questions. How do current institutions perform – academically spatially custodially and structurally? How might we stay engaged with the ways that institutions are inherently contested sites and what role do care and counter-hegemonic practices play in rearticulating other ways of performing institutions and how they perform on us?
These are the questions central to this book as it stages a productive tension between two main themes: structures of care (instituting otherwise) and sites of contestations (desiring change).
Some of the texts in this collection stage a productive tension between ideas about caring contestations and contestation as a caring engagement in practice with a view towards institutional transformation. Other contributors investigate the idea of caring contestations as a critical concept that draws attention to questions of power and to the exclusions produced and reproduced in and through specific institutional practices. As such this collection of writing puts forward caring contestations as a critical mode for (re)enacting institutional engagements. This also brings forward questions of agency and how for those of us who perform within institutional structures we care to engage and/or contest those institutional engagements.
It is primarily aimed at scholars educators research-practitioners and postgraduate students in the fields of performance studies theory creation and design those working at art institutions and art schools Also relevant to researchers working across various fields of organizational as well as educational approaches to performance culture.
Fan Phenomena: Disney
Fan Phenomena: Disney collects essays on Disney fans spanning a variety of media (such as film television novels stage productions and theme parks) and different fannish approaches (cosplay fan art) as well as the company's reactions to them.
It is a timely intervention that deals with crucial issues such as race and racism within the Disney fandom and in Disney texts the role of queerness the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the advent of the streaming service Disney+.
The authors come from variety of disciplines such as cultural and media studies marketing and communications cultural history or theatre and performance studies and include both leading experts in fan and Disney studies as well as emerging voices in these fields plus interviews with fan practitioners.
It will be popular with scholars of cultural studies cultural history media studies fan studies; Disney fans and students at any level
Beijing Film Academy 2020
The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates discussions and research from the previous year as previously published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy. This volume brings together specially selected articles appearing for the first time in English to bridge the gap in cross-cultural research in cinema and media studies.
The book is the latest in the Intellect China Library series to produce work by Chinese scholars that have not previously been available to English language academia. Covering the subjects of film studies visual arts performing arts media and cultural studies the series aims to foster intellectual debate and to promote closer cross-cultural intellectual exchanges by introducing important works of Chinese scholarship to readers.
Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education
This book provides a manuscript-megaphone for a variety of perspectives on popular music education including those we do not usually hear from but who are doing far and away the coolest most relevant and most interesting things.
It includes rants manifestos and pieces that are pithy and punchy and poignant which have resulted in a wide tonal variety among chapters from more traditionally scholarly pieces replete with citations and references through descriptions of practice to straight-up polemics. It is more about beliefs experiences and motivation about frustrations aspirations and celebrations. The chapters are intended to whet appetites prime pumps open eyes and keep cogs turning. This book is organized into four parts: Beyond the Classroom Identity and Purpose Higher Education and Politics and Ideology. This book is intended for academics of all ages and stages but the writing is often deliberately non-academic in tone.
The book will appeal to those working in popular music studies communication studies education research and should be of interest to those involved in policy decisions at national and regional levels. It is also directly relevant to researchers looking music industry and music ecosystems nationally regionally and internationally as education and popular music industry DIY and community sectors continue to enmesh in complex and evolving ways.
Blank Canvas
Art school Britain in the 1960s and 1970s – a hotbed of experimental DIY creativity blurring the lines between art and music. In Blank Canvas multi-genre musician turned university lecturer Simon Strange paints a picture of the diverse range of people who broke down the barriers between art life and the creative self.
Tracing lines from the Bauhaus 'blank slate' through the white heat of the Velvet Underground and the cutting edge of the Slits Blank Canvas draws on interviews with giants of the genre across music gender and race spectrums from Brian Eno to Pauline Black Cabaret Voltaire to Gaye Advert. Illustrated is a picture of two decades erupting in a devastatingly diverse flow of outspoken originality as an eclectic range of musical styles and cultures fused.
Does modern day music education suffocate the soul and inhibit the impact of the bohemian artist?
This book asks questions of today's artists musicians and educators looking for the essence of creativity and suggests how lessons learnt in and around art school education show a path for the cultural evolution of both musicians and artists hoping to create the future.
Audience will include university students at all levels in popular music popular culture and creative arts education. Academics educators and researchers working in popular culture and creativity. May also appeal to a more general reader interested in popular culture and creativity.
With a Blank Canvas anything is possible…
Performance Generating Systems in Dance
Performance generating systems are systematic and task-based dramaturgies that generate performance for or with an audience. In dance such systems differ in ways that matter from more closed choreographed scores and more open forms of structured improvisation. Dancers performing within these systems draw on predefined and limited sources while working on specific tasks within constraining rules. The generating components of the systems provide boundaries that enable the performance to self-organize into iteratively shifting patterns instead of becoming repetitive or chaotic.
This book identifies the generating components and dynamics of these works and the kinds of dramaturgical agency they enable. It explains how the systems of these creations affect the perception cognition and learning of dancers and why that is a central part of how they work. It also examines how the combined dramaturgical and psychological effects of the systems performatively address individual and social conditions of trauma that otherwise tend to remain unchangeable and negatively impact the human capacity to learn relate and adapt. The book provides analytical frameworks and practical insights for those who wish to study or apply performance generating systems in dance within the fields of choreography and dance dramaturgy dance education community dance or dance psychology.
Featured cases offer unique insight into systems created by Deborah Hay and Christopher House William Forsythe Ame Henderson Karen Kaeja and Lee Su-Feh.
Re-Choreographing Cortical & Cartographic Maps
A transdisciplinary approach to practice-as-research complete with its own elaborate theory of practice and a set of four multi-year-performance research projects through which the theory plays out. Its methodology is at times ethnographic as Henry Daniel deftly inserts himself and his Caribbean West African ancestry into a series of complex cortical and geographic maps which become choreographic in every sense of the term.
The central argument in the book is based on a claim that human beings are cognitively embodied through their own lived experiences of movement through space and time; the spaces we inhabit and the practices we engage in are documented through cortical and cartographic maps. In short as we inhabit and move through spaces our brains organise our experiences into unique cortical and spatial maps which eventually determine how we see and deal with i.e. ‘become’ subjects in a world that we also help create. The argument is that through performance as a re-cognising and re-membering of these movements we can claim the knowledge that is in the body as well as in the spaces through which it travels.
To demonstrate how the brain organises our experiences of the world according to cartographic (graphically mapping procedures) and cortical (motor sensory and visual functions) mapping and exploring the impact of this mapping to choreographic practice considering how maps might be disrupted or altered by change of circumstances. This is illustrated through scientific creative and reflective approaches to exploring neurological process of embodied experiences as well as the analysis of projects that have utilized this practice thus far.
Audience will include Dance and Performance Studies Scholars; Dancers and Choreographers; Undergraduate and Advanced Students; Researchers
The Future of Humanity (Second Edition)
Additional Prefaces from Hazel Henderson Randeep Sudan and new additional original material has been added in each chapter.
New material has a particular focus on the impact of Covid-19 and its influence which has gone beyond the fields of health and hygiene deeply impacting the economic social and even geopolitical affairs worldwide subverting many aspects of the traditional market economy and disrupting social norms. This unexpected disaster is forcing human beings to rethink the axioms of what has long called “civilization.” find ways to coexist with other creatures who share the earth and change many of our long-established behaviour patterns including lifestyle working practices and diet.
The world ushered in explosive technology development giving human beings unlimited opportunities and reverie. At the same time mankind faces a deeper crisis - beyond the climate change ecological environment the gap between rich and poor regional conflicts and terrorist threats that people already recognize. That is the human evolution crisis science and technology crisis and human civilization crisis brought by the development and application of technology which makes us stand at the crossroads in the history of human civilization. This book calls on human beings to prepare for the future - to actively promote the transformation of Industrial Civilization to promote the progress of human civilization to meet Global Civilization and even Great Civilization.
Zhouying Jin contends that if human beings who share an earth cannot correctly grasp the direction of human evolution; if they cannot alter their destructive relationship with nature and abandon “people-centred” and ‘’self-centred” thinking everywhere; if they cannot alleviate the threat of war and terrorism “as soon as possible” through the sublimation and perfection of human nature and create a more advanced civilization; if they cannot deal with the planet’s common crises - climate change species extinction land and food shortages water pollution etc.; in short if they cannot correctly learn the lessons of the current global catastrophe caused by the COVID-19; if they cannot promote the real awakening of all mankind; and cooperate to establish a new world order and accelerate the pace of civilizational transformation then indeed the human race is doomed to move toward self-destruction long before the dangers posed by gene-enhanced Super-beings or robots endowed with artificial intelligence robots ever emerge.
Primary audience will be at university level across a broad range of subjects and disciplines wherever students are studying topics connected to the future of mankind and the world.
Applied Arts and Health
This collection documents diverse approaches in creative arts engagement building metaphoric bridges across the field with an emphasis on creativity and well-being in education and community development.
Focussing on applied arts and health practice research scholarship expressive arts therapy community and education the book advances integrative and multimodal art-based processes. This book aims to give prominence to art-based research and provides useful support to those working and researching across applied arts and health education and community contexts. The book brings together a collection of world-leading authors in the field spanning a range of cultures documenting projects and significantly adding to cohesive research in the field.
In continuing to advance applied arts and health whilst furthering a commitment to art-based research this new book places emphasis upon the artistic research methodology underlining that art (performing art and visual art) is the evidence. It offers the field an integral vision for the arts both theoretically and practically. Further the book breaks down the silos of practice that have been unhelpful in their development.
The audience for this book will include art-based researchers expressive arts practitioners and scholars arts educators and those interested in bridging the gap between arts and health practice. Masters and doctoral level students in art-based research participatory research and qualitative research with an arts-focus are another audience for the book. All applied arts and health practitioners and academics arts educators art therapists and university PaR programmes. Whilst of particular use to postgraduate students this text will also be useful to final year undergraduate students in assisting them with creative practice-based dissertations and projects. Also useful to researchers practitioners and a range of research degree programmes in applied arts and health education and community engagement.
Removing the Educational Silos
This collection was written by educators who are engaging in multi- and interdisciplinary education and are led by curiosities encompassing the collaborative nature of cognitive and kinesthetic engagement and awareness.
The chapters are designed as sources for inspiration replication and adaptation. They are a place to start or continue. Each chapter in varying modalities addresses interdisciplinary course development and implementation in institutions of higher education. The common themes that emerge in the collection include navigating administrative systems and solving the challenges encountered when crossing departments or colleges whether it be regarding listing of courses or the intricacies of course load on each professor.
Many chapters also provide detailed information on the nuts and bolts of the specific course or courses taught including syllabi lesson examples and both formal and informal assessments implemented. Multiple case studies are included in this collection with many chapters providing specific examples of students’ work.
Contributors candidly offer discussions of failures and successes of their interdisciplinary collaborations be it in course design lesson planning or complications brought in by unforeseen pandemics. Most chapters end with a section entitled ‘Lessons learned’ where experiences from the field provide opportunities for growth and continued exploration.
Readers can follow the book from cover to cover or dip in finding the chapters that serve a particular project or teaching endeavour. The varying writing styles and topics are in direct relationship with the exact nature of the inspiration for this text. The over-arching themes of collaboration (diverse backgrounds ideas and skill sets multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity) are the consistent touchstones that create a thematic self-guided journey of exploration through the book.
The chapters offer readers guidance and encouragement to implement some of the approaches described and inspiration to forge their own paths in the world of multi- and interdisciplinary teaching and research. The depth and breadth of collaborative possibilities are exciting and the editors’ goal is to spark further experimentation.
An excellent and practical resource for any educator hoping to teach his or her subject matter through an interdisciplinary approach and for all courses revolving around topics of pedagogy. The key audience will be graduate students and teachers in all stages of education from primary to higher education.
Theatre for Lifelong Learning
Theatre for Lifelong Learning is a step-by-step guide for anyone interested in teaching theatre courses and creating theatre with older adults.
This book provides instructors with syllabi discussion questions classroom management strategies resource lists and activities to teach courses from beginning to end. Special topics include Playwriting Play Development Storytelling Theatre Appreciation Theatre Criticism Theatre History and Theatre Theory.
This book helps readers become confident informed instructors of older adult learners. Theatre for Lifelong Learning is a tool for anyone who wants to build theatrical communities and support the emotional well-being of older adults through education practice and experimentation while also having fun.
Theatre for Lifelong Learning is a complete guide to navigate the theatre classroom from beginning to end. Anyone can become a theatre expert and educator with practice. If you already have a background in performing arts this book provides strategies that are useful for you as well. If you have experience as an educator this book will enrich your current skill set with interdisciplinary approaches. Tips and examples throughout assist you in creating and maintaining an accessible environment and making courses your own.
So how can teaching and learning about theatre help us live in the moment? When we are not engaged it’s easy to forget that we are capable curious creative people who can expand our knowledge and experiences every day. Theatre encourages finding meaning in small things chance encounters and the tapestry of life. All the material provided in this book will motivate instructors and students to get involved.
It will be most useful for arts practitioners participatory practitioners institutional educators and community outreach officers independent theatre instructors. Of potential interest to scholars and researchers in age studies or in teaching and learning. May also be useful for community arts organizations regional theatres and non-profit organizations working with older adults.
Making Sense of Medicine
Medical knowledge manifests in materials and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge. From the novice student to the expert practitioner those who study and work in and around medicine rely on material guidance in their everyday practice and as they seek to further their craft.
Students just as experts pore over textbooks photographs and films. They put up and copy down chalkboard illustrations manipulate plastic models and inspect organic specimens fixed in formalin. They pass through grand university libraries and try not to contaminate anything in cramped surgical theatres. Students just as experts learn within an expansive material culture of medicine they learn from explicitly educative materials from the workaday tools used for diagnosis and in treatment they learn in everyday spaces and as part of sprawling infrastructures. While the specific constellation of material varies across time and space many materials have remained constant key actors in the spread of medical practices and in the steady global expansion of biomedical frameworks of health and disease. This collection focuses on the materials objects tools and technologies which facilitate the reproduction of medical knowledge and often reify understandings of medical science.
The training of doctors is changing rapidly in response to technological development as well to the evolving needs and expectations of patients. Medical schools are beginning to respond to these challenges through curricula redesign and the purchase or endorsement of new teaching aids simulations and pedagogies. Often this means that medical schools are embracing the digital at the expense of older teaching materials. Medical education is at a critical juncture and there is momentum to radically rethink its approaches.
This collection offers a reflection on these challenges by presenting an innovative and expansive overview of the role of materiality in the training of doctors and in the social reproduction of medicine in general. Experimental in form and with ethnographic museological and historical cases and traces from around the world this edited volume is the first to fully explore the matter of medical education in the modern world. Supported by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
An academic text it will be most relevant to academics and graduate students in the fields of health and material culture but will also have a wider readership with those working on medical education and knowledge and medical history
Bergson and Durational Performance
Humans have always marked time whether by using the earth's natural rhythms or with the clock. Unlike pre- industrial people living in an age of social acceleration is dominated by clock-time and network time presenting many more options than can possibly be achieved in a human lifespan.
This book explores the possibility of an alternative experience of time one that is closer to the pure duration described by philosopher Henri Bergson. The discussions in this book contribute to contemporary performance analysis philosophy and Bergson studies as well as exploring aspects of immersive and participatory performance walking practices ritual and online performance.
Using durational performances as case studies the author demonstrates new insights into Bergson’s philosophy alongside key theorists in psychology and anthropology. Through a series of performance analyses Bergson's philosophy of duration is coupled with ideas from Maslow Csikszentmihalyi and Victor Turner to speculate on the possibilities available in challenging an experience of the world in which time is short but the possibility of experience is abundant.
The main audience is an academic and student market. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of theatre studies performance and the performing arts doctoral researchers researchers interested in time and performance the relationship between performance and philosophy those with an interest in philosophy sociology anthropology and psychology will all find much of interest.
Potential wider readership in those who are interested in the phenomenon of social acceleration in performance philosophy as well in Bergson’s philosophy.
Local Childhoods in Global Times
This book presents different perspectives of childhood. With contributors from across the globe there are examples of local childhoods from different national contexts including America Australia Finland Hong-Kong Indonesia Japan Norway and Sweden.
Each chapter presents a different focus on early childhood showing the diversity and complexity across multiple countries. Issues emerge around multi-language development nationalism and multiculturalism. Across the chapters concepts around cultural theories of every-day life also show the ways in which practices of and in relation to children function to produce childhood as an artefact fiction and instrument.
It helps readers to develop an understanding of how changing perspectives on children and childhood and identity are expressed among children families and educators in and outside educational environments. It brings together active researchers in the field of global childhoods to sustain and develop our community of research and scholarship promoting internationalization through global childhoods as a way of cultural diversity and acceptance.
The book reflects on early childhood before and leading up to Covid-19. The editors were able to create a historical snapshot of early childhood pre-Covid from several countries. The pandemic has demanded major changes around learning agency voice and lived experience for children around the world. In some countries there are children in lockdown without access to learning and who have ceased to be recognised as a child. In other countries life has continued with social distancing and masks in educational spaces.
It will be a useful resource for students and academics in early childhood education and education studies more generally as well as practitioners and educators.
An Affect of an Experience
Despite the contemporary trend of focusing on personal experience in art and writing there is very little critical analysis of the concept of experience within fine art. The overarching conceptual aim of this book is to examine the concept of experience as both content and as interpretative register in the context of fine art. It explores the reasons why experience when compared to other modes of consciousness – such as understanding knowing perceiving or recognizing – is more aligned with the notion of actuality and thus more likely to be viewed as authentic. It then discusses the idea of writing about experience as a practice in fine art – the idea that writing can be understood as a practice like painting sculpture video etc.– and explores a viable methodology for the art-writing practice.
The book seeks to provide a more fluid interpretation of experience. In so doing it explores the following questions: Why does the reading of experience as self-presence predominate? What is the status and value of experience as evidence? How is experience written and seen? In exploring these questions Kate Love creates a workable strategy for writing about experience.
Dance and Ethics
Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Culture is an introductory study of ethical issues as applied to the history and field of Western theatrical dance. It is the first sustained work of its kind inspired by the belief that there are serious issues to be illuminated by examining dance in relation to ethics and to the changing values in the dance world itself especially as faced by young dancers entering the profession.
Since the 1960s and gathering momentum with the #metoo movement scholars and practitioners especially from the fields of dance education somatics and the realms of postmodern dance and ballet have increasingly believed that attitudes and practices involving psychological physical and sexual mistreatment of students and dancers must be challenged. Dance and Ethics examines key ethical issues related to the dance field primarily within the United States and how those directly impact different aspects of the lives of dance artists over the span of their careers. The issues discussed include the basic ethical choices facing a dance artist in terms of whether to care about ethics or separate art from morality; ethical issues involved in student–teacher and dancer–choreographer relationships; how ethical concerns relate to the creation and reception of choreographic work; ethical aspects of the critical assessment of dance and dancers; and ethical issues related to presenting systems and institutional infrastructures within the dance field.
While there is a clear bias towards greater humanism within the dance field Naomi Jackson is sensitive to the variety of moral stances available in any given situation. Readers are invited to consider that ethical options exist other than those that are usually promoted that while sometimes there are no clear right and wrong answers there are better and worse positions to be explored and defended and that it is important for the dance field and broader culture to consciously address ethical issues in relation to dance in a sustained thoughtful and creative manner.
The book focuses on theatrical dance forms of ballet modern/postmodern dance and theatrical jazz but also extends to commercial dance dance for the camera/internet and social/vernacular/folk dance when relevant to the main argument.
Dance and Ethics will appeal primarily to educators and students as well as young professional dancers. It is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in dance studies American studies performance studies and cultural studies. It will be useful for undergraduate and graduate dance courses focused on pedagogy choreography criticism community engagement politics and aesthetics.
Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow
Through Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow established experts designers and newer scholars from the world of ‘Islamic architecture’ broadly conceived consider the field’s changing nature and continued relevance in our rapidly globalizing context. Reflective essays address the meaning of ‘Islamic’ in built environments as well as the geographical chronological and disciplinary diversity of a dynamic field of study that encompasses far more than mosques and tombs. Essays address the use and interpretation of historic structures and spaces in addition to contemporary design conservation and touristic experience as well as research publication and pedagogical practices.
It introduces scholars and practitioners to the state of Islamic architecture as a field of inquiry and provides a snapshot of the issues and challenges facing the field today. Looking forward it invites readers to consider built environments in Islamic contexts as integral to global systems from an interdisciplinary and inclusive perspective. While this volume offers nuanced perspectives on a host of pressing questions it ultimately aims to advance a necessarily on-going conversation.
The book will have wide appeal among architectural historians art historians and other scholars working on material in the traditional Islamic regions of the world (North Africa the Middle East and South Asia) and beyond as well as scholars of religion and society. Practicing architects landscape architects planners preservationists and heritage managers in the regions addressed may also be interested in the volume. Essays have been written with non-specialist and student readers in mind. Undergraduate graduate and design students may use selected essays or the entire collection in university or graduate school coursework in architecture and Middle Eastern or Islamic studies.