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Emerald Street
A History of Hip Hop in Seattle
From the first rap battles in Seattle’s Central District to the Grammy stage, hip hop has shaped urban life and the music scene of the Pacific Northwest for more than four decades. In the early...
ISBN: 9780295747569
more detailsSailor Song
The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas
Passed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard labor, battling the elements, pining for distant loves and far-away homes....
ISBN: 9780295747286
more detailsAmerican 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 musical contributions...
ISBN: 9780295742625
more detailsClassical 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 their work and that...
ISBN: 9780295742779
more detailsOnnagata
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 aspect of kabuki since its...
ISBN: 9780295742755
more detailsTheatre 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 trusses, rigging, and automated lights and their...
ISBN: 9780295977171
more detailsOnnagata
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 aspect of kabuki since its...
ISBN: 9780295995106
more detailsWomen 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 Shanghai and morphed from its traditional all-male...
ISBN: 9780295988443
more detailsHow 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 here presenting new...
ISBN: 9780295953380
more detailsHeroines 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 selection of Chinese folk literature...
ISBN: 9780295988429
more detailsAmelia
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 the...
ISBN: 9780295989396
more detailsThe 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 of literature, music, and the...
ISBN: 9780295990064
more detailsJoel-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 colleague, music...
ISBN: 9780295985756
more detailsSeeing 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 the kututeng,...
ISBN: 9780295975252
more detailsLuk 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 in examining this seminal genre. In this pioneering...
ISBN: 9786162151064
more detailsTheatre 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 and libretti—have been selected...
ISBN: 9781741741063
more detailsThe 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 the first half of the 20th century, have been...
ISBN: 9780895511485
more detailsMultiple 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 this long-established art form in recent years. It includes works by such...
ISBN: 9781930561144
more detailsComposing Voices
A Cycle of Dramatic Monologues
Robert Pack's new volume of poetry, Composing Voices: A Cycle of Dramatic Monologues, is a fabulously expanded version of his 1984 book, Faces in a Single Tree. In each of the poems a single person...
ISBN: 9780976211402
more detailsWilling to Choose
Volition & Storytelling in Shakespeare's Major Plays
"And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain to tell my story." - William Shakespeare
"This book is intended for the reader and theater-goer who loves Shakespeare's plays and enjoys contemplating them in their...
ISBN: 9780976211440
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