ISBN: 4894448467 Binding: Paperback Edition: Bilingual Author(s): Mutsuo Takahashi Publisher: PIE Books Number of Pages: 280
Noh plays invite us to witness and experience the salvation of souls The Japanese-born performing art Noh combines dance drama music and poetry influenced by Zen philosophy With a 600-year history it is the worlds oldest performing art and designated an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO Beautifully photographed with thirty Noh stories selected from among the few hundred stories still performed throughout Japan today this volume pursues the subtle profound aesthetics and visionary qualities of Noh
ISBN: 1556523246 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1st Author(s): Lisa Bany-Winters Publisher: Chicago Review Press Number of Pages: 171
Kids learn about theater with games and activities that cover basic theater vocabulary puppetry and pantomime sound effects costumes props makeup and more
Career Opportunities in Theater and the Performing Arts
ISBN: 0816062897 Binding: Paperback Edition: 3 Author(s): Shelly Field Publisher: Checkmark Books Number of Pages: 304
Outlines career opportunities in theater and the performing arts discussing such aspects as salaries skill requirements advancement prospects and how to get started in the business
ISBN: 0739058010 Binding: Sheet music Edition: Author(s): Dream Theater, Rudess, Jordan Publisher: Alfred Publishing Number of Pages: 212
Not just a songbook but a total experience Note-for-note keyboard transcriptions of nine keyboard-intense Dream Theater songs from 1992-2007 plus amazing full-color concert and behind-the-'boards photos and a personal Q&A conversation with Jordan Rudess in which he reveals details of his playing style and the experience of jamming and writing with rock virtuoso bandmates Dream Theater What's more Rudess wrote special ""exercise"" pieces to precede each song each focusing on a challenging playing technique unique to the corresponding Dream Theater songs that follows A must-own collectible for all fans
Titles: Blind Faith (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence) Home (Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes from a Memory) Honor Thy Father (Train of Thought) In the Presence of Enemies Pt 1 (Systematic Chaos) In the Presence of Enemies Pt 2 (Systematic Chaos) Lines in the Sand (Falling into Infinity) Octavarium (Octavarium) Space-Dye Vest (Awake) Take the Time (Images and Words) The Ministry of Lost Souls (Systematic Chaos)
Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the African-American in the Performing Arts
ISBN: 0306804069 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): Langston Hughes, Milton Meltzer Publisher: Da Capo Press Number of Pages: 384
Black Magic Langston Hughes's last book presents the vast sweeping story of African-American entertainers--the artists and the musicians the singers and the dancers the obscure and the illustrious--from the tragic beginnings in slavery to he triumphant artistic achievements of the late 1960s Long considered the most comprehensive history of African-Americans in the performing arts this milestone in black history features hundreds of rare and beautiful illustrations Covering both the obstacles to achievement that these artists faced and their eventual triumph Black Magiclong out-of-printis an essential book of American history
ISBN: 0073386170 Binding: Paperback Edition: 8 Author(s): Dennis Petrie, Joe Boggs Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Number of Pages: 528
With an emphasis on the narrative film The Art of Watching Films challenges students to take their film experience further by sharpening their powers of observation developing the skills and habits of perceptive watching and discovering complex aspects of film art that they might otherwise overlook The Art of Watching Films introduces the formal elements and production process of films and helps students analytically view and understand films within their historical cultural and social contexts The text presents an analytical framework that can be applied to all movies as distinctly different as Avatar The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Vertigo Iron-Man Man on Wire and The Hurt Locker
Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
ISBN: Binding: Hardcover Edition: 1 Author(s): Alan Goldsher, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Publisher: Hal Leonard Number of Pages: 216
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers was one of the most enduring popular reliable and vital small bands in modern jazz history Blakey was not only a distinguished inventive and powerful drummer but along with Duke Ellington and Miles Davis he was one of jazz's foremost talent scouts The musicians who flowed seamlessly in and out of this constantly evolving collective during its 36-year run were among the most important artists not just of their eras but of any era Though their respective innovations were vital to the evolution of bebop hard bop and neo bop the recorded work of the Messengers sidemen has never been properly analyzed Until now Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers critically examines the multitude of gifted artists who populated the many editions of the Jazz Messengers In addition to dissecting the sidemen's most consequential work with Blakey's band jazz musician and acclaimed novelist Alan Goldsher offers up engaging profiles of everyone from Wynton Marsalis to Terence Blanchard to Hank Mobley to Wayne Shorter to Horace Silver to Keith Jarrett to Curtis Fuller to Steve Davis And that's only the beginning Goldsher conducted over 30 interviews with surviving graduates of Blakey's Hard Bop Academy many of whom spoke at length of their tenure with the legendary "Buhaina" for the first time Alan Goldsher is a bassist who has recorded with Janet Jackson Digable Planets Cypress Hill and Naughty By Nature His writing has been published in Bass Player Tower Pulse Sport and BasketBull: Chicago Bulls Magazine Goldsher's debut novel Jam was published in 2002 by Permanent Press He lives in Chicago Hardcover
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image
ISBN: 0252074122 Binding: Paperback Edition: 1 Author(s): Bennetta Jules-Rosette Publisher: University of Illinois Press Number of Pages: 368
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer singer actress author politician militant and philanthropist whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction nor simple biography Josephine Baker in Art and Life presents a critical cultural study of the life and art of the Franco-American performer whose appearances as the savage dancer Fatou shocked the world
Although the study remains firmly anchored in Josephine Bakers life and times presenting and challenging carefully researched biographical facts it also offers in-depth analyses of the images that she constructed and advanced Bennetta Jules-Rosette explores Bakers far-ranging and dynamic career from a sociological and cultural perspective using the tools of sociosemiotics to excavate the narratives images and representations that trace the story of her life and fit together as a cultural production
New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater
ISBN: 1403978018 Binding: Hardcover Edition: First Edition Author(s): Ilka Saal Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Number of Pages: 244
New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticismWhile considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting cultural critique In this regard it offers a vital alternative to the dominant modernist paradigm developed in Europe Rather than radicalizing content and form New Deal theater insisted that the political had to be made commensurable with the language of a mass audience steeped in consumer cultureThe resulting vernacular praxis emphasized empathy over alienation verisimilitude over abstraction By examining the cultural vectors that shaped this theater Saal shows why it was more successful on the American stage than its European counterpart and develops a theory of vernacular political theater which can help us think of the political in art in other than modernist terms
Staging Philosophy: Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
ISBN: 0472069500 Binding: Paperback Edition: Author(s): N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Number of Pages: 344
The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater Each of the contributorsleading scholars in the fields of performance and philosophybreaks new ground presents new arguments and offers new theories that will pave the way for future scholarship
Staging Philosophy raises issues of critical importance by providing case studies of various philosophical movements and schools of thought including aesthetics analytic philosophy phenomenology deconstruction critical realism and cognitive science The essays which are organized into three sectionshistory and method presence and receptiontake up fundamental issues such as spectatorship empathy ethics theater as literature and the essence of live performance While some essays challenge assertions made by critics and historians of theater and performance others analyze the assumptions of manifestos that prescribe how practitioners should go about creating texts and performances The first book to bridge the disciplines of theater and philosophy Staging Philosophy will provoke stimulate engage and ultimately bring theater to the foreground of intellectual inquiry while it inspires further philosophical investigation into theater and performance
David Krasner is Associate Professor of Theater Studies African American Studies and English at Yale University His books include A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre Drama and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance 1910-1920 and Renaissance Parody and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre 1895-1910 He is co-editor of the series Theater: TheoryTextPerformance
David Z Saltz is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia He is coeditor of Theater Journal and is the principal investigator of the innovative Virtual Vaudeville project at the University of Georgia
