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Urban Music Governance
What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities
What happens when precarious urban cultural labourers take data collection laws and policymaking into their own hands? Buskers have been part of our cities for hundreds of years but they remain invisible to governments and in datasets. From nuisance to public art this cultural practice can help us understand the politics of data collection archives regulatory frameworks and urban planning. Busking also responds to underlying questions on the boundaries of the right to the city – and who has a voice in shaping how our cities are planned and governed.
A transnational exploration of street performance Urban Music Governance examines the intricate limits of legality data visibility and resistance from the perspective of those working at the social and regulatory margins of society. Based on a decade of fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and Montreal this book puts forward a lively account on why such an often-overlooked practice mattes today.
By investigating the role of busking in contemporary society Urban Music Governance presents an original interdisciplinary study that exposes how power dynamics in policymaking decide issues of access – and exclusion – around us above and below ground.

The Intellect Handbook of Documentary
The Handbook of Documentary is an important go-to resource for practitioners scholars and students in this burgeoning field. It tackles key topics and debates – from the role of documentary in post-truth culture to the rise of streaming giants (and the implications for national documentary cultures) and the shifting (increasingly hybrid) practices of documentary activism and the professionalization of impact. Featuring work by key figures in international documentary scholarship and talented emerging scholars the Handbook is a landmark publication for documentary studies in the twenty-first century.
The Handbook is broad in its scope incorporating historical theoretical empirical and practical scholarship. It is organized around ten key themes/debates: What and where is documentary (studies)?; Documentary in an Age of epistemic uncertainty; Documentary histories; Documentary and the Archive; Audio/Visualities; Documentary Relationalities; Beyond the Anthropocene?; Digital/documentary practices; Documentary and (new) politics?; A golden age? Documentary distribution and funding. Importantly the Handbook challenges the dominance of Western voices in documentary scholarship incorporating the voices and practices of practitioners from the Global South.

Flesh and Text
Devising Performance by Bodies in Flight
BODIES IN FLIGHT make performance where flesh utters and words move challenging and re-energizing the relationship between audiences and performers and audiences and place.
Emerging from rigorous interdisciplinary and collaborative methods often with new technologies in cutting-edge venues we insist on the buzz of ideas on philosophy and poetry using words and images movement and stillness voices and bodies through which they aim to move audiences emotionally and spiritually. Organized in a highly visual design this volume is both a history and a workbook with selections of scripts and archival material from 30 years of making devised theatre and performance in the UK and internationally plus texts by collaborators arts professionals and scholars exploring the company’s collaborative working method contextualizing it in the wider performance ecology and culture.
Intended as an inspiration to emerging artists the volume covers key questions for any maker of contemporary performance: the relationship of choreography and spoken word the use of new technologies and multi-media the role of original music and soundscapes the differences between work presented in a theatre or gallery or sited in non-theatrical places the persistence of theatre as an art-form in an increasingly digital culture.

Shock Factory
The Visual Culture of Industrial Music
Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon it quickly spawned a coherent visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage mail art installation film performance sound video) and initiated a close inspection of the legacy of modernity and the growing pervasive influence of technology.
Originally British the movement soon outgrew Europe extending into the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments conducted by industrial bands – designing synthesizers manipulating and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes either recycled or laid down by the artists – were backed up by a rich array of radical visual productions deriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. Such saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images manipulated through the détournement of reprographic techniques (Xerox art) that investigated polemical themes: mind control criminality occultism pornography psychiatry and totalitarianism among others.
This book aims to introduce the visual and aesthetic elements of 1970a and 1980s industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analysing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement who perceptively anticipated the current discourse concerning the media and their collective coercive power.

Schechner Plays
A collection of performance texts ranging from orthodox plays to group-devised texts. The book traces from most recent to earliest Schechner's work as a "writer" and a "wrighter" -- the author of plays and the conceptualizer and leader of teams of artists. The book includes several never before published early texts as well as updated versions of well-known productions such as "Dionysus in 69" "YokastaS" "Makbeth" and "Imagining O." The earliest texts are from the 1950s the most recent from 2014.
This book brings together for the first time Richard’s original plays and adaptations: YokastaS Redux Dionysus 69 Commune Oresteia Prometheus Project Makbeth Richard’s Leer Imagining O Faust/gastronome Blessing of the Fleet Briseis and the Sergeant Lot's Daughters and The Last Day of FK. The scripts engage with perennial canonic themes such as Oedipus and Faust and topical issues of our times. They embody Richard’s world-famous performance approach. The introduction sets the scripts in intellectual and production context. The book complements Schechner’s other works Performance Studies (now in its 3rd ed.) Performance Theory The Grotowski Sourcebook The Future of Ritual and his new A New Third World of Performance.

artmaking as embodied enquiry
entering the fold
What can a fold be? Virtually anything and everything.
For centuries folds and folding have captured the world’s imagination. Folds readily appear in revivals of the ancient craft of origami amid the simplest acts of pedestrian life within the philosophical turnings of the mind and in art design architecture performing arts and linguistics around the world. What awaits our understanding is how deeply the fold figures into embodiment into our very impulse to create.
This book is about folding as a vibrant stimulus for inter/trans/postdisciplinary artistic research whether for the performative for product realization or simply to enliven body mind and spirit. Destined for artmaking—for making any art—the f/old practice etches into the very fabric of embodiment. As such the f/old reaches outside the constraints of disciplinary silos into nice areas that embrace the unknown with all its underlying tensions and ambiguities. In conceiving of art made differently two seasoned facilitators Susan Sentler and Glenna Batson share the abundance of their decade-long collaboration in developing their approach to practice research in the fold. In addition to their insights they invite eight of their collaborators to contribute each a veteran artist of a diverse genre.
Featuring a wide variety of practice samples and images this book reflects on a current and unique somatic-oriented arts research practice and pedagogy with an intriguing blend of interdisciplinary concern and practice.

The Films of Aleksandr Rou
Father of Soviet Fairy-Tale Cinema
Fifty years after his death the Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Rou remains a cinematic icon in Russia and many other countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Dubbed ‘King of the Fairy Tales’ and ‘The Main Storyteller of the Country’ he transformed the landscape of Soviet fantasy and fairy-tale cinema during a directorial career that stretched from 1938 to 1972.
From the heights of Stalinist propaganda cinema through Khrushchev’s Thaw and into the Brezhnev Stagnation era Rou’s films celebrated and perpetuated the nation’s folkloric traditions while constantly refreshing them for new generations of young audiences.
In English-speaking countries Rou’s work remains relatively little known having received only limited theatrical distribution in the West. With home entertainment now offering wider opportunities to discover his unique and exhilarating oeuvre this book provides a timely introduction to the work of one of the world’s great masters of fairy-tale cinema.
The book traces the developments of Rou’s work on fairy-tale film providing cultural and technical contexts of production and analysing in a competent manner the features that mark Rou’s personal style whilst highlighting variations on narratives actors and special effects. It is a joyful read and an impeccably organised text which is well structured and brings out much more clearly the various phases in the development of Rou’s films. The chapters provide excellent introductions that serve to contextualise and connect the narrative.

The Social Object
Apprehending Materiality for Industrial Design Practice
The Social Object uses the methods of design history material culture studies and the social construction of technology to analyse the domestic spaces and objects in the homes of the middle class in India. The book describes how people make meaning of the objects they buy own and gift.
This is a book about the biography of projects and objects. The projects in the book serve as book ends to a detailed and affectionate account of the biographies of objects within the homes of the not so rich.
The aim of the author has been to silence the voice of the designer to allow the accounts of objects to emerge as periodic irruptions that reveal a hidden maelstrom of passion ideas and failed projects. The book opens with the biography of a project dealing with waste leading the reader to a very particular kind of object the bads. This object is illicit handled by criminals and in the writing by the author serves to invert the dominant discourse of objects as commodities. This book makes the case that the program of design is better seen as a democratic community where the householders the zietgiest technology and all manner of hidden agents collide to allow unforseen periodic objects to emerge.
Varadarajan argues against a simplistic universal account off the way we think about how objects are designed. As an enterprise the book was a journey to assemble the evidence - of places and objects - and observe the enactment of practices with the objects. It was also a project of speculation upon the possible ways in which objects come to be as local collaborations of action.

Last Artist Standing
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life over 50
Last Artist Standing shares the essays of the lives of 31 artists over the age of 50 how they have sustained their creative lives what paths they have led showing who contemporary artists are today.
They are mentors to other artists having learned how to thrive and be creative through decades of life's travails. Sharon Louden wants to share these stories with the public so that their models can be replicated by all age groups both within and beyond the art world.
This collection addresses the ability of these artists to remain contemporary as they adapt through generational shifts the physical financial and professional challenges they have overcome to remain vibrant and sustaining artists and their role as inspirational models to others who may be turning to art late in their lives.

Artists as Writers
Part of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series Artists as Writers joins the tradition of writing books designed or intended to inspire would-be writers to write but distinguishes itself by offering succinct first-person narratives by writers of varied genres about the day-to-day life of writing for a living.
Artists as Writers offers accounts of the journeys that thirty two writers have taken to becoming a real writer what decisions were made which paths were taken rejected charted and why. It answers the question: What magic keeps a writer writing?
Writers from Ethiopia Guatemala Nigeria Palestine Poland and Sweden as well as several who live throughout the United States: California Colorado Georgia Louisiana Pennsylvania Texas and Washington contribute their stories. They each provide vividly detailed accounts of the circuitous roads that each individual took to earn the title “writer.” These are richly descriptive stories from writers who write consistently relating how they came to the writing life who helped them get there and what sustains them as writers.

Wild Renaissance
New Paradigms in Art, Ecology, and Philosophy
A Renaissance is underway. It can be seen as a response to environmental societal and ethical issues so acute that human survival is in question. Artistic philosophical and political it builds on the scientific revolutions of the last decades and positions itself in relation to technoscientific and transhumanist promises. Within this Wild Renaissance man no longer positions himself as master and owner imposing his will on a passive and purposeless nature. He makes ready to listen to a new partner: the world around him. He discovers the potential of its forces which he both harnesses and engages with joining them with his own. A new era is taking shape restoring man to his “wild” dignity and giving his existence meaning joy and ambition. An art is emerging that is redefining the paradigms of creation. Its work is in the vanguard of this societal project.
There is a major tendency in contemporary art and design and perhaps the most innovative one that is putting in place new ways of working and producing works which represent a significant break with the principles that have guided modernity up to the present. We are witnessing the beginnings of a renaissance that can be described as “wild.” Powerfully ambitious it stands as a response to the acute environmental societal and ethical questions raised in today’s world and at their heart the very survival of the human species as we enter the Anthropocene era. It bears witness to massive shifts in consciousness and echoes a call for a change that is becoming increasingly audible. Nature or more precisely a new way of being “wild” – that is to say of thinking and acting on the Earth is the key reference around which the contents of an alternative common destiny are being articulated. The “Wild Renaissance” is supplanting both the modernity that placed man at the center of the world assigning him the vocation of becoming the master and owner of nature and postmodernity which put an end to the great narratives and left only an absolute relativism incapable of supporting new sustainable models.
The word “renaissance” is not used lightly. It stems from a philosophical and ecological analysis of the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy. This upheaval did not come out of nowhere. Today as back then a period of some hundred and fifty yeas paved the way for its emergence. The proto-Wild Renaissance goes from the mid-19th century to the early 21st century. The evolution and convergence of art philosophy and the sciences of the environment can be observed there in relation to key historical and political moments that have repeatedly raised the question of the continuing habitability of the Earth.
The Wild Renaissance is articulated around a renewed vision of humankind and nature. Humankind no longer aspires to impose its will on a passive purposeless nature. Instead it is beginning to listen to a new partner: the world around it. Humanity is discovering the potential of these forces and entering into a relation with them allying them with its own. Humanity is going from from master to collaborator assuming an ecological responsibility that goes hand in hand with a revived dignity and an existence that is all the more exciting for all that. Already-established figures in contemporary art and design together with emerging creators are at the forefront of this new movement. The works and practices analyzed here are shown in a new light with a fresh understanding of their historical grounding conceptual underpinnings and significance for the present.
Previously published in French by Presses Universitaires de France (PUF).

Popular Music Ethnographies
Practices, Places and Identities
This edited collection offers evocative ways into a range of fascinating worlds of popular music from the Ecuadorian indie scene to Chinese rock. In exploring the experiences of musicians fans industry professionals and academics the rich complexity of popular music is brought to life through ethnography as an immersive approach to undertaking and communicating research.
Experimenting with ethnography through the joys and tribulations of musical production fandom and scholarship these collated studies critically consider what it means to be a popular music ethnographer and to take an ethnographic approach to studying popular music.
Alongside these chapters musicians venue owners music writers live music photographers and fans add their voices and experience in the form of shorter vignettes ordering the content into three overlapping themes: practices; places; and identities.

The Capitalist Imaginaries of Popular Music
Traditionally popular music has long been said to intrinsically contest resist and defy the powers that be. This new book challenges this long-standing orthodoxy arguing that popular music more often participates in the social reproduction of the biggest power there is: neoliberal capitalism. This is done mainly through the widespread mediation of a very particular and remarkably cohesive ideology of greatness and value. This ideology is drawn from principles and prescriptions that have long been constitutive of neoliberal capitalism. We have been told this story over and over again for decades.
The music is real. The music is powerful. The music is defiant.
It is a story that has gradually spread to encompass everything from classic rock to contemporary pop to hip hop to dance music. This suite of ideas came to dominance since the mid-1980s and persist to the present an era in which the vast majority of people have been disempowered impoverished and marginalised at home at work and in politics. This book explains why such a robust pervasive and persistent set of ideas about popular music has taken such a tenacious hold in a historical era which has repeatedly and thoroughly demonstrated the utter falseness of those same ideas nearly everywhere they have been experienced.

Youth, Power, Performance
Applied Theatre with Systemically Marginalized Youth
This book draws on over twenty years scholarship from Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theatre research with systemically marginalized youth. It draws on applied theatre research conducted with youth in three specific contexts: in alternative high schools in a youth jail and with street-involved youth.
By drawing on examples from several projects highlighting youths’ voices and youths’ creations the book offers an introduction to the researcher and theoretical considerations for the research suggests practical strategies for engaging with this youth population describes the applied theatre process developed. It addresses specific considerations for working with incarcerated youth and with Indigenous youth and explores the potential demonstrated for youth empowerment through applied theatre some ethical considerations in conducting such work and the role of applied theatre in social change. The book may be of interest to applied theatre researchers instructors practitioners and students and to drama teachers and youth workers.

New Queer Television
From Marginalization to Mainstreamification
Though queer critics and queer theory tend to frame queer identities as marginal this edited volume draws attention to a dynamic field in which a wide variety of queer identities can be put on display and consumed by audiences. Cementing a foundational understanding of queerness that is at odds with current shifts in media production contributors present a broad variety of queer identities from across a range of televisual shows and genres to reconsider the marginalization of queerness in the twenty-first century. Doing so challenges preexisting notions that such “mainstreamification” necessitates being subsumed by the cisheteropatriarchy. This project argues the opposite showing that heteronormative assumptions are outdated and that new queer representations lay the groundwork for filling gaps that queer criticism has left open.
Thomas Brassington is a researcher whose work explores intersections of queerness and the Gothic in contemporary popular culture. Debra Ferreday is a feminist cultural theorist whose research concerns gender feminist theory sexuality critical race theory queer theory and embodiment. Dany Girard is a queer researcher whose work primarily explores representations of gender asexualities and queer theory in television and film.

Product Design, Technology, and Social Change
A Short Cultural History
This cultural history critically examines product design and its development from pre-industrial times to the present day considering major milestones in the mass production of goods and services aiming to incorporate a more inclusive worldview than traditional surveys of the topic.
The breadth and versatility of product design through history has been profound. Products have long supported the integration and interpretation of emerging technologies into our lives. These objects include everything from tools accessories furniture and clothing to types of transportation websites and mobile apps. Products provide singular or multiple functions are tangible and intangible and in many instances have impacted the quality of our lives by saving time or money or by increasing feelings of personal satisfaction. At the same time many products have negatively impacted people and the environment. For nearly every product that makes it into the hands of a consumer there is also a designer who created it and someone who laboured to make it.
Examines the relationship between products consumption sustainability politics and social movements. This "pocket history" surveys product design from the agricultural revolution and the birth of cities through industrialisation and a digital design revolution.

Product Design, Technology, and Social Change
A Short Cultural History
This cultural history critically examines product design and its development from pre-industrial times to the present day considering major milestones in the mass production of goods and services aiming to incorporate a more inclusive worldview than traditional surveys of the topic.
The breadth and versatility of product design through history has been profound. Products have long supported the integration and interpretation of emerging technologies into our lives. These objects include everything from tools accessories furniture and clothing to types of transportation websites and mobile apps. Products provide singular or multiple functions are tangible and intangible and in many instances have impacted the quality of our lives by saving time or money or by increasing feelings of personal satisfaction. At the same time many products have negatively impacted people and the environment. For nearly every product that makes it into the hands of a consumer there is also a designer who created it and someone who laboured to make it.
Examines the relationship between products consumption sustainability politics and social movements. This "pocket history" surveys product design from the agricultural revolution and the birth of cities through industrialisation and a digital design revolution.

Global Culture after Gombrich
Art, Mind, World
Ernst Gombrich can be considered the most influential art historian of the 20th-century. Until now however the global impact of his work has been under-appreciated. Global Culture after Gombrich: Art Mind World presents essays by historians of art and culture - themselves students of Gombrich or associated with his scholarly home the Warburg Institute - from Asia the USA and Europe.
Subjects range from picture-making’s place in human evolution to the visual marginalia of the Renaissance and from nineteenth-century modernism to the implications of the latest neuroscience for cultural history. Other chapters treat fundamental issues such as the notion of connoisseurship the fate of the idea of ‘culture’ or the cultural specificity of modernism. They range from theoretical broadsides – notably a defence of the ‘intelligence’ of art - to intricate reflections – for example on caricature as a style.
In showing how Gombrich initiated enquiries that have spread in numerous – and global – directions Global Culture after Gombrich: Art Mind World makes a vital contribution to contemporary debates around the languages of art history and showcases the range of approaches and methods by which art history is and has yet to be written.

The Human Shutter
Photographs, Stereoscopic Depth, and Moving Images
This transdisciplinary study offers a fresh perspective on the intersections of photography cinema and visual perception making it an essential addition to collections in art history film studies and photography.
Robert L. Bowen delves into the complex relationship between art binocular vision space and time across both early and modern histories of photography. Central to Bowen’s analysis is the concept of "the human shutter" a metaphor for binocular rivalry which he interprets as a form of proto-cinema—linking early photographic processes with the evolution of cinematic temporality.
The book provides a rich examination of the near-simultaneous emergence of still moving and stereoscopic depth media while challenging the gradualist view of visual technologies. Through a preliminary taxonomy of rare stereoviews Bowen draws connections between experimental film painting philosophy and perception theory opening new avenues for understanding the history of visual media.
Additionally Bowen traces the fascinating journey of early pioneers like Antoine Claudet and Giorgio Sommer whose work in motion and binocular vision plays a pivotal role in rethinking the origins of photographic cinema. Bowen bridges this history with contemporary innovations including the dissolution of time in photography with the advent of generative AI.
The volume also highlights the work of modern and contemporary artists and filmmakers such as Marcel Duchamp Robert Smithson Lucy Raven Ken Jacobs and OpenEndedGroup who have explored stereoscopic spaces and perceptions in innovative ways.
Key for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying art art history film photography and new media. It is also relevant to photographers photo historians experimental filmmakers video artists digital media artists painters and sculptors seeking fresh insights into their respective fields. Will resonate with readers interested in the history of 19th-century photography and the development of stereoscopic media.

Encountering the Plague
Humanities Takes on the Pandemic
This edited collection features fourteen newly commissioned articles each of which responds to the theme of plague from different disciplinary perspectives. Contributors focus on the effects of COVID-19 on everyday life drawing also on insights from different historical experiences of plague as a way of exploring human responses to epidemics past and present.
Each chapter opens with a different illustration that serves as a source for subsequent discussion enabling readers to make connections between everyday objects experiences and broader critical debates about plague and its impact on humanity. Thought-provoking commentaries stem from a variety of humanities disciplines including archaeology electronic literature history linguistics media and cultural studies and musicology.
Encountering the Plague explores ways in which humanities research can play a meaningful role in key social and political debates and provides compelling examples of how the past can inform our understanding of the present.