Evening Performance

Author : George Garrett
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780804151054

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Evening Performance by George Garrett Pdf

There is a special joy in seeing a virtuoso at work, achieving the fulfillment of his art. In a prodigious literary career, demonstrating a virtually limitless range, George Garrett’s dazzling versatility has won high esteem and critical acclaim for his novels, plays, poetry, biography, and short fiction. Now, as testimony to George Garrett’s vivid storytelling powers, An Evening’s Performance: New and Selected Short Stories encompasses some of his best work of the past thirty years. Widely admired for his masterworks of Elizabethan times, Garrett’s stories here are contemporary, colloquial, humorous, bittersweet, deeply felt without sentimentality. Garrett’s gift for language, his forthright and compelling style touch the heart and ignite the senses, as he gives us stories of war and uneasy peace; of soldiers and movie-makers; of families, ghosts, preachers, teachers, and religious conmen. Stories that create a vision quintessentially American, yet universal in spirit.

Author : Nagle Jackson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Comedy
ISBN : 0822200740

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At this Evening's Performance by Nagle Jackson Pdf

THE STORY: On tour in rural Dunsk (recently annexed by the hated socialist state of Strevia) a theatrical troupe is obliged to present corny melodramas and creaky verse plays as modern drama has been banned by their new masters. Led by a hammy egom

Author : Adam Ainsworth,Oliver Double,Louise Peacock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474247351

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Popular Performance by Adam Ainsworth,Oliver Double,Louise Peacock Pdf

There is no fourth wall in popular performance. The show is firmly rooted in the here and now, and the performers address the audience directly, while the audience answer back with laughter, applause or heckling. Performer and role are interlaced, so that we are left uncertain about just how the persona we see onstage might relate to the private person who presents it to us. Popular Performance defines and surveys varieties of performance where the main purpose is to entertain, and where there is no shame in being trivial, frivolous or nonsensical as long as people go home happy at the end of the show. Contributions by new and established scholars focus particularly on how it is made, explaining the techniques of performance and production that make it so appealing to audiences. With sections examining how popular performance works in a range of historical and contemporary examples, readers will gain insights into: * performance forms associated with the variety tradition: music hall, vaudeville, cabaret, variety * performance forms associated with circus: wild west shows, clowning * issues relating to the identity of the performer in relation to magic, burlesque, pantomime in contemporary performance * issues relating to venue and audience in relation to contemporary street theatre, stand-up, and live sketch comedy.

Author : Jeannine Murray-Román
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813938493

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Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature by Jeannine Murray-Román Pdf

Focusing on the literary representation of performance practices in anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean literature, Jeannine Murray-Román shows how a shared regional aesthetic emerges from the descriptions of music, dance, and oral storytelling events. Because the historical circumstances that led to the development of performance traditions supersede the geopolitical and linguistic divisions of colonialism, the literary uses of these traditions resonate across the linguistic boundaries of the region. The author thus identifies the aesthetic that emerges from the act of writing about live arts and moving bodies as a practice that is grounded in the historically, geographically, and culturally specific features of the Caribbean itself. Working with twentieth- and twenty-first-century sources ranging from theatrical works and novels to blogs, Murray-Román examines the ways in which writers such as Jacques Stephen Alexis, Zoé Valdés, Rosario Ferré, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Marlon James experiment with textually compensating for the loss of the corporeality of live relationship in performance traditions. Through their exploration of the interaction of literature and performance, she argues, Caribbean writers themselves offer a mode of bridging the disjunction between cultural and philosophical approaches within Caribbean studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Arts
ISBN : OSU:32435024898470

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The Athenaeum by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1334 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3000889

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : New York (State) Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Labor
ISBN : UOM:39015011424408

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Annual Report by New York (State) Bureau of Labor Statistics Pdf

Author : Kevin Curran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317100232

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Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court by Kevin Curran Pdf

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance, a hitherto unexplored branch of early modern theater consisting of masques and entertainments performed for high-profile weddings. Scripted by such writers as Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Francis Beaumont, these entertainments were mounted for some of the most significant political events of James's English reign. Here Kevin Curran analyzes all six of the elite weddings celebrated at the Jacobean court, reading the masques and entertainments that headlined these events alongside contemporaneously produced panegyrics, festival books, sermons, parliamentary speeches, and other sources. The study shows how, collectively, wedding entertainments turned the idea of union into a politically versatile category of national representation and offered new ways of imagining a specifically Jacobean form of national identity by doing so.

Author : Martin Andrew
Publisher : House of Hebyzie Publishing, Canada
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798989870417

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The Road to the Manor by Martin Andrew Pdf

A career in the entertainment industry is often colorful but seldom as fulfilling as we are led to believe by the media moguls who glorify the highs and lows of celebrities as they live out their lives in the public eye. Only a tiny percentage of those entering this industry attain the dizzy heights they dream of, and many fall by the wayside without causing a ripple in this vast ocean we call showbiz. Martin Andrew's story tells a tale of one man's journey from a small town in rural England to the bright lights of Las Vegas and beyond. It is not a story of success or failure but rather one of passion, determination and survival as he embarks on The Road to the Manor.

Author : Walter Lawry Buller
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368196172

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A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Walter Lawry Buller Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author : Max Katz
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819577603

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Lineage of Loss by Max Katz Pdf

In the middle of the nineteenth century a new family of hereditary musicians emerged in the royal court of Lucknow and subsequently rose to the heights of renown throughout North India. Today this musical lineage, or ghar n, lives on in the music and memories of only a small handful of descendants and players of the family instrument, the sarod. Drawing on six years of ethnographic and archival research, and fifteen years of musical apprenticeship, Max Katz explores the oral history and written record of the Lucknow ghar n ,tracing its displacement, loss of prestige, and erasure from the collective memory. In doing so he illuminates a hidden history of ideological and social struggle in North Indian music culture, intervenes in ongoing debates over the anti-Muslim agenda of Hindustani music's reform movement, and reanimates a lost vision in which Muslim scholar-artists defined the music of the nation. An interdisciplinary, postmodern counter-history, Lineage of Loss offers a new and unsettling narrative of Hindustani music's encounter with modernity.

Author : United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : American newspapers
ISBN : UCAL:C2858754

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Annals of Cleveland--1818-1935 by United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Humanities
ISBN : OSU:32435061400503

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Humanities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alison Tokita,Hugh de Ferranti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317091639

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Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan: Osaka and Beyond by Alison Tokita,Hugh de Ferranti Pdf

This anthology addresses the modern musical culture of interwar Osaka and its surrounding Hanshin region. Modernity as experienced in this locale, with its particular historical, geographic and demographic character, and its established traditions of music and performance, gave rise to configurations of the new, the traditional and the hybrid that were distinct from their Tokyo counterparts. The Taisho and early Showa periods, from 1912 to the early 1940s, saw profound changes in Japanese musical life. Consumption of both traditional Japanese and Western music was transformed as public concert performances, music journalism, and music marketing permeated daily life. The new bourgeoisie saw Western music, particularly the piano and its repertoire, as the symbol of a desirable and increasingly affordable modernity. Orchestras and opera troupes were established, which in turn created a need for professional conductors, and both jazz and a range of hybrid popular music styles became viable bases for musical livelihood. Recording technology proliferated; by the early 1930s, record players and SP discs were no longer luxury commodities, radio broadcasts reached all levels of society, and ’talkies’ with music soundtracks were avidly consumed. With the perceived need for music that suited 'modern life', the seeds for the pre-eminent position of Euro-American music in post-Second-World war Japan were sown. At the same time many indigenous musical genres continued to thrive, but were hardly immune to the effects of modernization; in exploring new musical media and techniques drawn from Western music, performer-composers initiated profound changes in composition and performance practice within traditional genres. This volume is the first to draw together research on the interwar musical culture of the Osaka region and addresses comprehensively both Western and non-Western musical practices and genres, questions the common perception of their being wholly separate domains

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433082187992

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The Monthly Musical Record by Anonim Pdf