Transnational Theatre Histories – serie
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24 produkter
Transatlantic Broadway
The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance
Inbunden, 2015
850 kr
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Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine.
Transatlantic Broadway
The Infrastructural Politics of Global Performance
Häftad, 2015
850 kr
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Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine.
Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946
Sounding Modernities
Av meLê yamomo
Häftad, 2019
1018 kr
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This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the improvement of transcontinental …
Transnational Chinese Theatres
Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia
Inbunden, 2020
906 kr
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This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational …
Transnational Chinese Theatres
Intercultural Performance Networks in East Asia
Häftad, 2021
906 kr
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This is the first systematic study of networks of performance collaboration in the contemporary Chinese-speaking world and of their interactions with the artistic communities of the wider East Asian region. It investigates the aesthetics and politics of collaboration to propose a new transnational …
Touring Variety in the Asia Pacific Region, 1946–1975
Inbunden, 2020
962 kr
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Aviation extended the horizon of international touring across Asia and the Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s. Nightclubs in Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Taipei presented an international array of touring acts. This book investigates how this happened. It explores the …
Touring Variety in the Asia Pacific Region, 1946–1975
Häftad, 2021
962 kr
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Aviation extended the horizon of international touring across Asia and the Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s. Nightclubs in Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Taipei presented an international array of touring acts. This book investigates how this happened. It explores the …
History of East African Theatre, Volume 1
Horn of Africa
Av Jane Plastow
Inbunden, 2020
1243 kr
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This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region. Covering nine nations in two volumes, the project covers a hundred years of theatre making across Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. This volume focuses on the theatre of …
History of East African Theatre, Volume 1
Horn of Africa
Av Jane Plastow
Häftad, 2021
1000 kr
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This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region. Covering nine nations in two volumes, the project covers a hundred years of theatre making across Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. This volume focuses on the theatre of …
Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage
The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893)
Inbunden, 2021
1243 kr
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The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asia’s most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian cinema industry. By providing extensive, unpublished information on its first actors, audiences, …
Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage
The Making of the Theatre of Empire (1853-1893)
Häftad, 2022
1000 kr
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The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asia’s most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian cinema industry. By providing extensive, unpublished information on its first actors, audiences, …
Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716–1723
Inbunden, 2021
1467 kr
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How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian’s work? How do performers adapt? What gets lost (and found) in translation? Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716-1723 explores these questions in an early modern context. When a troupe of …
Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716–1723
Häftad, 2022
1467 kr
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How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian’s work? How do performers adapt? What gets lost (and found) in translation? Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716-1723 explores these questions in an early modern context. When a troupe of …
Theatre Across Oceans
Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange, 1890–1925
Inbunden, 2021
1580 kr
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Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural 'backstage area' of global cultural mobility during the years between 1890 and 1925. Located within the research fields of global history and theory, the geographical focus of …
Theatre Across Oceans
Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange, 1890–1925
Häftad, 2022
1580 kr
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Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural 'backstage area' of global cultural mobility during the years between 1890 and 1925. Located within the research fields of global history and theory, the geographical focus of …
History of East African Theatre, Volume 2
Central East Africa
Av Jane Plastow
Inbunden, 2021
1355 kr
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This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda alongside a focus on French language theatre …
History of East African Theatre, Volume 2
Central East Africa
Av Jane Plastow
Häftad, 2022
1355 kr
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This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda alongside a focus on French language theatre …
Uday Shankar and His Transcultural Experimentations
Dancing Modernity
Inbunden, 2022
1467 kr
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This monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer / choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b – 1977d). His popularity in Europe and America as an Oriental male dancer in the first half of the 20th century, …
Uday Shankar and His Transcultural Experimentations
Dancing Modernity
Häftad, 2023
1467 kr
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This monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer / choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b – 1977d). His popularity in Europe and America as an Oriental male dancer in the first half of the 20th century, …
Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War
Av Christopher B. Balme, Berenika Szymanski-Düll
Inbunden, 2017
1243 kr
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This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries. They represent in turn a variety of perspectives, methodologies and theatrical genres, including not only Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy …
Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946
Sounding Modernities
Av meLê yamomo
Inbunden, 2018
1128 kr
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This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the improvement of transcontinental …
Carnival and Power
Play and Politics in a Crown Colony
Inbunden, 2018
1355 kr
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This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power. Carnival is both a space of theatricality and a site of politics, where the playful, participatory aspects are appropriated by countervailing forces seeking to …
Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War
Av Christopher B. Balme, Berenika Szymanski-Düll
Häftad, 2018
906 kr
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This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries. They represent in turn a variety of perspectives, methodologies and theatrical genres, including not only Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy …
Carnival and Power
Play and Politics in a Crown Colony
Häftad, 2019
1355 kr
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This book shows how Carnival under British colonial rule became a locus of resistance as well as an exercise and affirmation of power. Carnival is both a space of theatricality and a site of politics, where the playful, participatory aspects are appropriated by countervailing forces seeking to …
