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King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land
The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae
When Jackie Mittoo and Leroy Sibbles migrated from Jamaica to Toronto in the early 1970s, the musicians brought reggae with them, sparking the flames of one of Canada’s most vibrant music scenes....
ISBN: 9780774862288
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American Sabor
Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music / Latinos y latinas en la musica popular estadounidense
Evoking the pleasures of music as well as food, the word sabor signifies a rich essence that makes our mouths water or makes our bodies want to move. American Sabor traces the substantial...
ISBN: 9780295742625
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Classical Seattle
Maestros, Impresarios, Virtuosi, and Other Music Makers
The past 50 years have seen a tremendous arts boom in Seattle, which has given the city not only internationally recognized classical music institutions but also great performance halls to showcase...
ISBN: 9780295742779
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Onnagata
A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater
Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important...
ISBN: 9780295742755
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Live at The Cellar
Vancouver's Iconic Jazz Club and the Canadian Co-operative Jazz Scene in the 1950s and '60s
In the 1950s and ’60s, co‐operative jazz clubs opened in response to new forms of jazz expression emerging after the war and a lack of performance spaces outside major urban centres. Operated...
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Going Public
The Art of Participatory Practice
Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create and to actively involve the public in research activities. Drawing on conversations with over...
ISBN: 9780774836630
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Onnagata
A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater
Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important...
ISBN: 9780295995106
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Theatre Backstage from A to Z
Revised and Expanded
This invaluable guide to theatrical production includes up-to-date definitions of all technical aspects of stagecraft, including the many advances in the past decade, particularly in the areas of...
ISBN: 9780295977171
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Women Playing Men
Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai
This ground-breaking volume documents women's influence on popular culture in twentieth-century China by examining Yue opera. A subgenre of Chinese opera, it migrated from the countryside to urban...
ISBN: 9780295988443
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How Musical Is Man?
This important study in ethnomusicology is an attempt by the author -- a musician who has become a social anthropologist -- to compare his experiences of music-making in different cultures. He is...
ISBN: 9780295953380
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Heroines of Jiangyong
Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women’s Script
Heroines of Jiangyong is the first English translation of a set of verse narratives recorded in the unique women's script (nushu) of rural Jiangyong County, Hunan, in southern China. This...
ISBN: 9780295988429
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Amelia
The Libretto
In the new opera Amelia, a first time mother-to-be, whose psyche has been scarred by the loss of her pilot father in Vietnam, must break free from anxiety to embrace healing and renewal for...
ISBN: 9780295989396
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The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul
Essays on Music and Poetry
The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Brown’s new and previously published writings on literature and music. These essays engage questions that are central to the development...
ISBN: 9780295990064
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Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land
The second part of this volume comprises four essays on Durand’s music, contributed by three of his former composition students -- Christian Asplund, Eric Flesher, and Ryan M. Hare -- and by his...
ISBN: 9780295985756
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Seeing with Music
The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians
In the course of his ongoing study of the aesthetic world of the Limba of Sierra Leone, anthropologist Simon Ottenberg met three men from Wara Wara Bafodea chiefdom who played an instrument called...
ISBN: 9780295975252
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Luk Thung
The Culture and Politics of Thailand's Most Popular Music
Since the 1960s, the hybrid popular music called luk thung has embodied the aspirations, frustrations, and sorrows of Thailand’s working class. Global scholarship, however, has been slow...
ISBN: 9786162151064
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Theatre of Dreams, Theatre of Play
No and Kyogen in Japan
Dating from the 15th to early 20th century, 160 works from the rich material culture of Japanese no and kyogen theatre (nogaku)—including masks and costumes as well as paintings, musical instruments...
ISBN: 9781741741063
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The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
The Strachwitz Frontera Collection is the largest repository of commercially produced Mexican and Mexican American vernacular recordings in existence. More than 40,000 recordings, all produced during...
ISBN: 9780895511485
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Hollywood North
The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia
British Columbia’s billion-dollar film industry trails behind only those of California and New York. This book recounts the story of British Columbia’s rapid rise from relative obscurity in the...
ISBN: 9780774809689
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Multiple Impressions
Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints
Multiple Impressions examines works by 40 leading printmakers from contemporary China, highlighting the extraordinary innovations, in both technique and conception, which have transformed...
ISBN: 9781930561144
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