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Author : Gunnel Bergström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Affektlära
ISBN : 9186434225
Author : Maria Grazia Sindoni,Janina Wildfeuer,Kay O'Halloran
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317219194
This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective. It collects original research on traditional performing arts (theatre, dance, opera), live (durational performance) and mediated/recorded performances (films, television shows), as well as performative discursive practices on social media by adopting several theories and methodologies all dealing with the notion of multimodality. As a mostly dynamic and also interactive environment for various text types and genres, the context of performance studies provides many opportunities to produce meaning verbally and non-verbally. All chapters in this book develop frameworks for the analysis of performance-related events and activities and explore empirical case studies in a range of different ages and cultures. A further focus lies on the communicative strategies deployed by different communities of practice, taking into account processes of production, distribution, and consumption of such texts in diverse spatial and temporal contexts.
Author : Alejandro L. Madrid
Publisher : Currents in Latin American and
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190215781
In the 1920s, Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system he metaphorically called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound). Although his pioneering role as one of the first proponents of microtonality gave him a cult figure status among European avant-garde circles in the 1960s and 1970s, his music and legacy have remained largely ignored by scholars and critics. This book explores his ideas not only in relation to the historical moments of their inception but also in relation to the various cultural projects that kept them alive and resignified them into the 21st century.
Author : Giovanna Castellano,Anna Maria Fanelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642027949
At first sight, the concept of web personalization looks deceivingly simple. A web personalization system is a software component that collects information on visitors to a web site and leverages this knowledge to deliver them the right content, tailoring presentation to the user's needs. All over the world, web designers and web content managers rely on web personalization solutions to improve the effectiveness and - ability of their web-based applications. Still, the scientific foundation of web personalization remains a controversial issue. Practitioners know very well that when properly implemented, personalization del- ers a much better user experience; but when it is poorly implemented, personalization may backfire and even distract the user's attention away from some useful (and co- ly-to-develop) enriched content. In other words, tailoring content, and varying it routinely, may make a site more attractive; but an unstable site look can have a negative impact on the overall m- sage. Everybody seems to agree that this is a real danger; but there are specific qu- tions that are much harder to answer convincingly.
Author : Anastasia Belina-Johnson,Derek B. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317039549
The study of the business of opera has taken on new importance in the present harsh economic climate for the arts. This book presents research that sheds new light on a range of aspects concerning marketing, audience development, promotion, arts administration and economic issues that beset professionals working in the opera world. The editors' aim has been to assemble a coherent collection of essays that engage with a single theme (business), but differ in topic and critical perspective. The collection is distinguished by its concern with the business of opera here and now in a globalized market. This includes newly commissioned operas, sponsorship, state funding, and production and marketing of historic operas in the twenty-first century.
Author : Helen M. Greenwald
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195335538
Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators.
Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : Music
ISBN : PSU:000046187284
A Song of Love and Death examines the art of opera with the same creative insight that Susan Sontag's On Photography brought to its medium. It is an eloquent inquiry into the meaning of our boldest art, its expression of human irrationality and its power to disturb and excite us.
Author : Dr Jeongwon Joe
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781472411327
Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the intersection of opera and cinema began to emerge. Jeongwon Joe focusses primarily on the role of opera as soundtrack by exploring the distinct effects opera produces in film, effects which differ from other types of soundtrack music, such as jazz or symphony. These effects are examined from three perspectives: peculiar qualities of the operatic voice; various properties commonly associated with opera, such as excess, otherness or death; and multifaceted tensions between opera and cinema - for instance, opera as live, embodied, high art and cinema as technologically mediated, popular entertainment. Joe argues that when opera excerpts are employed on soundtracks they tend to appear at critical moments of the film, usually associated with the protagonists, and the author explores why it is opera, not symphony or jazz, that accompanies poignant scenes like these. Joe's film analysis focuses on the time period of the post-1970s, which is distinguished by an increase of opera excerpts on soundtracks to blockbuster titles, the commercial recognition of which promoted the production of numerous opera soundtrack CDs in the following years. Joe incorporates an empirical methodology by examining primary sources such as production files, cue-sheets and unpublished interviews with film directors and composers to enhance the traditional hermeneutic approach. The films analysed in her book include Woody Allen’s Match Point, David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, and Wong Kar-wai’s 2046.
Author : Yasushi Kiyoki,T. Tokuda
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781586039578
Focuses on theoretical disciplines including cognitive science, artificial intelligence, logic, linguistics and analytical philosophy.
Author : Jane Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429939402
Eugenio Barba is recognized as one of the most important theatre practitioners working today. Along with the company he founded over fifty years ago, the world-acclaimed Odin Teatret, he continues to produce extraordinary theatre performances that tour the world, and his International School of Theatre Anthropology has greatly developed research into the craft of the actor. Now revised and updated, this volume reveals the background to and work of a major influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century performance. Eugenio Barba is the first book to combine: an overview of Barba’s work and that of his company, Odin Teatret exploration of his writings and ideas on theatre anthropology, and his unique contribution to contemporary performance research in-depth analysis of the 2000 production of Ego Faust, performed at the International School of Theatre Anthropology a practical guide to training exercises developed by Barba and the actors in the company. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s student.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Austria
ISBN : MINN:31951P00635927A
Author : Aleksandar Saša Dundjerović
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773576988
Since the 1980s, multimedia and new technologies have had a great impact on theatre, allowing performance to establish its own language of communication with the audience independent of the written text. Robert Lepage is one of the pioneers and main exponents of mixed-media performance, internationally renowned for a notoriously distinct aesthetic. Aleksandar Dundjerovic, in the first book to explore Lepage's practical work, offers a comprehensive analysis of his creative process, his "transformative mise-en-scene."
Author : Anna Omery,Christine E. Kasper,Gayle Page
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0803950942
After examining traditional empiricist views of science, the contributors focus on the schools of thought that challenge them. Next, they introduce postmodern schools of thought including feminism, phenomenology, critical theory and poststructuralism.
Author : Ruth HaCohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300177992
This deeply imaginative and wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical libel"--a variation on the Passion story that recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his "harmonious musicality." In paying close attention to how and where this libel surfaces, HaCohen covers a wide swath of western cultural history, showing how entrenched aesthetic-theological assumptions have persistently defined European culture and its internal moral and political orientations.Ruth HaCohen combines in her comprehensive analysis the perspectives of musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, tracing the tensions between Jewish "noise" and idealized Christian "harmony" and their artistic manifestations from the high Middle Ages through Nazi Germany and beyond. She concludes her book with a passionate and moving argument for humanizing contemporary soundspaces.
Author : Stephen Loy,Julie Rickwood,Samantha Bennett
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781760462130
A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty‑first century, reaches into almost every facet of public life. The pervasive nature of stardom in modern society demands study from the perspectives of a range of distinct but thematically connected disciplines. The exploration of intersections between broader considerations of stardom and the discourses of popular music studies is the genesis for this volume. The chapters collected here demonstrate the variety of work currently being undertaken in stardom studies by scholars in Australia. The contributions range from biographical considerations of the stars of popular music, contributions to critical discourses of stardom in the industry more broadly, and the various ways in which the use of astronomical metaphors, in both cultural commentary and academic discourse, demonstrate notions of stardom firmly embedded in popular music thought. Not only do these chapters represent a range of perspectives on popular music, stars and stardom, they provide eloquent and innovative contributions to the developing discourse on stardom in popular music.