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The Solo Video Journalist Doing It All and Doing It Well in TV Multimedia Journalism

The Solo Video Journalist Doing It All and Doing It Well in TV Multimedia Journalism

The Solo Video Journalist now in its second edition offers a comprehensive overview of the solo video reporting process from start to finish. Drawing from years of professional experience in the field the author covers all aspects of multimedia journalism from planning for a segment to dressing appropriately for multiple roles to conducting interviews and editing. The book contains interviews with more than a dozen top storytellers from around the United States and offers practical advice for how to succeed in a growing media field. New to this edition are Career Chronicles – chapters that detail the career paths possible for modern journalists – and a fully updated chapter on the importance of building a digital and social media presence. This book is an excellent resource for students learning skills in broadcast multimedia backpack and television journalism as well as for early-career professionals looking for a back-pocket resource in solo video journalism. | The Solo Video Journalist Doing It All and Doing It Well in TV Multimedia Journalism

GBP 26.99
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How to Find a Needle in a Haystack From the Insider Threat to Solo Perpetrators

How to Find a Needle in a Haystack From the Insider Threat to Solo Perpetrators

Searching for a needle in a haystack is an important task in several contexts of data analysis and decision-making. Examples include identifying the insider threat within an organization the prediction of failure in industrial production or pinpointing the unique signature of a solo perpetrator such as a school shooter or a lone wolf terrorist. It is a challenge different from that of identifying a rare event (e. g. a tsunami) or detecting anomalies because the needle is not easily distinguished from the haystack. This challenging context is imbued with particular difficulties from the lack of sufficient data to train a machine learning model through the identification of the relevant features and up to the painful price of false alarms which might cause us to question the relevance of machine learning solutions even if they perform well according to common performance criteria. In this book Prof. Neuman approaches the problem of finding the needle by specifically focusing on the human factor from solo perpetrators to insider threats. Providing for the first time a deep critical multidimensional and methodological analysis of the challenge the book offers data scientists and decision makers a deep scientific foundational approach combined with a pragmatic practical approach that may guide them in searching for a needle in a haystack. | How to Find a Needle in a Haystack From the Insider Threat to Solo Perpetrators

GBP 48.99
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The Music of George Harrison

The Music of George Harrison

George Harrison was one of the most prolific popular music composers of the late 20th century. During his tenure with the Beatles he caught the wave of 1960s pop culture and began channeling its pervasive influence through his music. Often described as The Invisible Singer his solo recordings reveal him to be an elusive yet essential element in the Beatles’ sound. The discussion of George Harrison’s Beatle tracks featured in the text employs a Songscape approach that blends accessible music analysis with an exploration of the virtual space created on the sound recording. This approach is then used to explore Harrison’s extensive catalog of solo works which due to their varied cultural sources seem increasingly like early examples of Global Pop. In that sense the music of George Harrison may ultimately be viewed as an important locus for pan-cultural influence in the 20th century making this book essential reading for those interested in the history of songwriting and recording as well as the cultural study of popular music.

GBP 24.99
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Lennon and McCartney Painting with Sound

Lennon and McCartney Painting with Sound

Lennon and McCartney: Painting with Sound explores the work of two of the most influential composers of the twentieth century. Five decades after the breakup of the Beatles the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney continues to fascinate and inspire. Evidence suggests that their uniquely eclectic approach can be traced back to the Liverpool College of Art. Following on that idea this book explores the creative dialogue between John Lennon and Paul McCartney both with the Beatles and on their own that grew out of that early influence. The book is presented in three sections: I. Stretching the Canvas considers the Liverpool College of Art as the backdrop for John and Paul’s early collaborations with painter and musician Stuart Sutcliffe. This is followed by discussions of select works created by the Beatles between 1962-69. II. Extending the Space focuses on the long-distance creative dialogue between Lennon and McCartney as demonstrated in their respective solo recordings of the 1970s. III. New Colours considers the final works of the Lennon and McCartney creative dialogue as well as various McCartney solo projects released in the years that followed Lennon’s death in 1980. Here the focus is on Paul’s development as a painter its effect on his creativity and his subsequent efforts to establish the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts as a world-class arts conservatory. | Lennon and McCartney Painting with Sound

GBP 35.99
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Creative Jazz Improvisation

Creative Jazz Improvisation

The leading textbook in jazz improvisation Creative Jazz Improvisation Fifth Edition represents a compendium of knowledge and practice resources for the university classroom suitable for all musicians looking to develop and sharpen their soloing skills. Logically organized and guided by a philosophy that encourages creativity this book presents practical advice beyond the theoretical featuring exercises in twelve keys ear training and keyboard drills a comprehensive catalog of relevant songs to learn and a wide range of solo transcriptions each transposed for C Bb Eb and bass clef instruments. Chapters highlight discussions of jazz theory - covering topics such as major scale modes forms chord substitutions melodic minor modes diminished and whole-tone modes pentatonic scales intervallic improvisation free improvisation and more - while featuring updated content throughout on the nuts and bolts of learning to improvise. New to the Fifth Edition: Co-author Tom Walsh Additional solo transcriptions featuring the work of female and Latino jazz artists A new chapter “Odd Meters” A robust companion website featuring additional exercises ear training play-along tracks tunes call and response tracks keyboard voicings and transcriptions alongside Spotify and YouTube links to many of the featured solos Rooted in an understanding that there is no one right way to learn jazz Creative Jazz Improvisation Fifth Edition explores the means and methods for developing one’s jazz vocabulary and improvisational techniques.

GBP 59.99
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Classical Recording A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition

Classical Recording A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition

Classical Recording: A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition is the authoritative guide to all aspects of recording acoustic classical music. Offering detailed descriptions diagrams and photographs of fundamental recording techniques such as the Decca tree this book offers a comprehensive overview of the essential skills involved in successfully producing a classical recording. Written by engineers with years of experience working for Decca and Abbey Road Studios and as freelancers Classical Recording equips the student the interested amateur and the practising professional with the required knowledge and confidence to tackle everything from solo piano to opera. | Classical Recording A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition

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Death and (Re) Birth of J.S. Bach Reconsidering Musical Authorship and the Work-Concept

Death and (Re) Birth of J.S. Bach Reconsidering Musical Authorship and the Work-Concept

While the study and redefinition of the notion of authorship and its relationship to the idea of the literary work have played a central role in recent research on literature semiotics and related disciplines its impact on contemporary musicology is still limited. Why? What implications would a reconsideration of the author- and work-concepts have on our understanding of the creative musical processes? Why would such a re-examination of these regulative concepts be necessary? Could it emerge from a post-structuralist revision of the notion of musical textuality? In this book Trillo takes the …Bach… project a collection of new music based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Partita No. 1 for solo violin BWV 1002 as a point of departure to sketch some critical answers to these fundamental questions raise new ones and explore their musicological implications. | Death and (Re) Birth of J. S. Bach Reconsidering Musical Authorship and the Work-Concept

GBP 18.99
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Bahlabelelelani – Why Do They Sing? Gender and Power in Contemporary Women’s Songs

Bahlabelelelani – Why Do They Sing? Gender and Power in Contemporary Women’s Songs

Indigenous societies steeped in patriarchy have various channels through which they deal with abusive characteristics of relations in some of these communities. One such route is through songs which sanction women to voice that which bound by societal expectations they would not commonly be able to say. This book focuses on the nature of women’s contemporary songs in the rural community of Zwelibomvu near Pinetown in KwaZulu-Natal. It aims to answer the question ‘Bahlabelelelani – Why do they sing?’ drawing on several discourses of gender and power to examine the content and purposes of the songs. Restricted by custom women resort to allusive languages such as found in ukushoza a song genre that includes poetic elements and solo dance songs. The songs when read in conjunction with the interviews and focus group discussions present a complex picture of women’s lives in contemporary rural KwaZulu-Natal and they offer their commentary on what it means to be a woman in this society. | Bahlabelelelani – Why Do They Sing? Gender and Power in Contemporary Women’s Songs

GBP 130.00
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Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine

Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine

Originally published in 1986 Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine was the first book to look at abortion from the perspective of physicians in private practice. Jonathan B. Imber spent two years observing and interviewing all twenty-six of the obstetrician-gynecologists in “Daleton ” a city that did not have an abortion clinic. The decision as to whether when and how to perform abortions was therefore essentially up to the individual doctor. Imber begins the volume with a historical survey of medical views on abortion and the medical profession’s response to the legalization of abortion in the United States. Quoting extensively from his interviews he looks at various characteristics of doctors that may affect their professional opinion on abortion: their age gender religious background and length of residence in the community; the nature of their training and prior experience; and the setting of the practice (whether group or solo). Imber found that the physicians’ reasons for agreeing or refusing to perform abortions revealed considerable differences of opinion about how they construe their responsibilities.

GBP 42.99
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Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

British cartoonists and caricaturists are renowned worldwide. Originally published in 2000 this indispensable handbook offers a unique ‘who’s who’ of all the major artists working in Britain in the twentieth century and contains nearly 500 entries. Extensively illustrated the book provides information on the work of artists such as Steve Bell Gerald Scarfe Posy Simmonds Ronald Searle Trog mac and Larry as well as such past masters as David Low Vicky H. M. Bateman Illingworth Heath Robinson and more. The dictionary concentrates primarily on political cartoonists caricaturists and joke or ‘gag’ cartoonists actively working for the main Fleet Street national dailies and weeklies from 1900 to 1995. Each entry is cross-referenced and provides a concise biographical outline with an account of the artist’s style influences and preferred medium. Where relevant the entry includes suggestions for further reading and notes solo exhibitions books illustrated and works held in public collections. The Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists offers an insight into the lives of satirical artists working during a century that provoked cartoonists and caricaturists to a pitch of comic and artistic invention that has rarely been matched.

GBP 99.99
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Exhibiting Outside the Academy Salon and Biennial 1775-1999 Alternative Venues for Display

Exhibiting Outside the Academy Salon and Biennial 1775-1999 Alternative Venues for Display

In recent years there has been increasing scholarly interest in the history of museums academies and major exhibitions. There has been however little to no sustained interest in the histories of alternative exhibitions (single artwork solo artist artist-mounted entrepreneurial privately funded ephemeral etc. ) with the notable exception of those publications that deal with situations involving major artists or those who would become so - for example J. L. David’s exhibition of Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799) and The First Impressionist Exhibition of 1874 - despite the fact that these sorts of exhibitions and critical scholarship about them have become commonplace (and no less important) in the contemporary art world. The present volume uses and contextualizes eleven case studies to advance some overarching themes and commonalities among alternative exhibitions in the long modern period from the late-eighteenth to the late-twentieth centuries and beyond. These include the issue of control in the interrelation and elision of the roles of artist and curator and the relationship of such alternative exhibitions to the dominant modes structures of display and cultural ideology. | Exhibiting Outside the Academy Salon and Biennial 1775-1999 Alternative Venues for Display

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Lighting Dance A Study of Technical Philosophical and Psychological Shadows

Lighting Dance A Study of Technical Philosophical and Psychological Shadows

Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances. Through a series of experiments integrating light shadow and improvised dance movement it highlights and analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance as an alternative to more conventional approaches to lighting design. Different art forms such as painting film and dance pieces from Loie Fuller the Russell Maliphant Dance Company Elevenplay Pilobolus and the Tao Dance Theater served to inspire and contextualise the study. From lighting to psychology from reviews to academic books shadows are examined as a symbolic and manipulative entity. The book also presents the dance solo Sombreiro which was created to echo the experiments with light shadow and movement aligned to an interpretation of cultural shadow (Jung 1954 in Samuels Shorter and Plaut 1986; Casement 2006; Ramos 2004; Stein 2004; and others). The historical development of lighting within dance practices is also outlined providing a valuable resource for lighting designers dance practitioners and theatre goers interested in the visuality of dance performances. | Lighting Dance A Study of Technical Philosophical and Psychological Shadows

GBP 36.99
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The Integrated Guide to Treating Penetration Disorders in Women Transforming Sexual Relationships from Fear to Confidence

The Integrated Guide to Treating Penetration Disorders in Women Transforming Sexual Relationships from Fear to Confidence

Maha Nasrallah-Babenko presents a culturally sensitive and uniquely accessible guide that equips clinicians student sex therapists and female clients with the tools to confidently treat genito-pelvic pain and penetration disorders (GPPPD). Addressing the issue from an integrated approach the book provides evidence-based information and sensate solo and partner practical exercises derived from the author’s experience to help clinicians support women in redefining their relationship with sex their bodies and their partners. With a special focus on those from conservative and religious backgrounds this beautifully illustrated text emphasizes the psychological emotional and relational factors that may increase shame and fear surrounding sex. The book defines GPPPD before outlining the author’s ABCs approach awareness body control and safety where she examines topics such as sexual abuse how to communicate with you partner sexual beliefs and messages the importance of arousal vulnerability and assertiveness and shifting the significance of penetration for an enjoyable sex life. This book is essential reading for training and established sex therapists family therapists and couple therapists looking to support those struggling with sexual intimacy as well as the couples seeking their help. | The Integrated Guide to Treating Penetration Disorders in Women Transforming Sexual Relationships from Fear to Confidence

GBP 28.99
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Mythic Imagination and the Actor Exercises Inspiration and Guidance for the 21st Century Actor

Mythic Imagination and the Actor Exercises Inspiration and Guidance for the 21st Century Actor

In Mythic Imagination and the Actor Marissa Chibás draws on over three decades of experience as a Latinx actor writer filmmaker and teacher to offer an approach to acting that embraces collective imagination archetypal work and the mythic. The book begins with a comparative analysis between method acting and mythic acting encouraging actors to push past the limits of singular life experience and move to a realm where imagination and metaphor thrive. In the context of mythic acting the book explores awareness work solo performance creation the power of archetypes character building exercises creating a body/text connection and how to be the detective of your own process. Through this inclusive guide for a new age of diverse performers traversing gender ability culture and race readers are able to move beyond their limits to a deep engagement with the infinite possibilities of rich imagination. The final chapter empowers and motivates artists to live healthfully within the practice and create a personal artistic vision plan. Written for actors and students of acting American Drama and film and theatre studies Mythic Imagination and the Actor provides practical exercises and prompts to unlock and interpret an actor’s deepest creative sources. | Mythic Imagination and the Actor Exercises Inspiration and Guidance for the 21st Century Actor

GBP 31.99
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The Listening Book How to Create a World of Rich Connections and Surprising Growth by Actually Hearing Each Other

The Listening Book How to Create a World of Rich Connections and Surprising Growth by Actually Hearing Each Other

Satisfying secure connection with others depends heavily on how well we listen to each other and respond to what we’ve heard. The Listening Book lays bare the key elements of both deeply attuned and badly misattuned listening in vivid scenes of real-life interactions that capture the emotional impact and give the reader an illuminating aha experience. Added to that is a mind-opening account of psychological processes and principles that normally operate from outside of awareness showing how skillful listening can reveal those dynamics. Beyond even that such listening can produce interactions that unlock lifelong emotional conditioning to yield liberating change through one of the brain’s most remarkable processes which neuroscientists call memory reconsolidation. Whether read solo with a partner or in a reading group The Listening Book is for everyone who yearns for deeper emotional connection and closeness everyone who is at a loss to understand what is interfering and everyone who is fascinated by the subtle and manifold factors involved in interpersonal communication. Free extra: Couple Rescue Skill-Builder ebook – click on Support Material button on book's routledge. com page. | The Listening Book How to Create a World of Rich Connections and Surprising Growth by Actually Hearing Each Other

GBP 22.99
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Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s Femininity Celebrity and Glamour

Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s Femininity Celebrity and Glamour

Female solo aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s were internationally popular performers in the largest live performance mass entertainment of the period in the UK and USA. Yet these aerialists and this period in circus history have been largely forgotten despite the iconic image of ‘the’ female aerialist still flaring in the popular imagination. Kate Holmes uses insights gained as a practitioner to reconstruct in detail the British and American performances and public personae of key stars such as Lillian Leitzel Luisita Leers and the Flying Codonas revealing what is performed and implicit in today’s practice. Using a wealth of original sources this book considers the forgotten stars whose legacy of the cultural image of the female aerialist echoes. Locating performers within wider cultural histories of sport glamour and gender this book asks important questions about their stardom including: Why were female aerialists so alluring when their muscularity challenged conservative ideals of femininity and how did they participate in change? What was it about their movements and the spaces they performed in that activated such strong audience responses? This book is vital reading for students and practitioners of aerial performance circus gender popular performance and performance studies. | Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s Femininity Celebrity and Glamour

GBP 38.99
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Acting in Musical Theatre A Comprehensive Course

Acting in Musical Theatre A Comprehensive Course

Acting in Musical Theatre remains the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical. It covers fundamental skills for novice actors practical insights for professionals and even tips to help veteran musical performers refine their craft. Educators will find the clear structure ideal for use with multiple courses and programs. Updates in this expanded and revised third edition include: A comprehensive revision of the book’s companion website into a fully online Resource Guide that includes abundant teaching materials and syllabi for a range of short- and long-form courses PowerPoint slide decks and printable handouts for every chapter. Updated examples illustrations and exercises from more recent musical styles and productions such as Hamilton Waitress and Dear Evan Hansen. Revision of rehearsal and performance guidelines to help students and teachers at all levels thrive. Updated and expanded reading/listening/viewing lists for specific-subject areas to guide readers through their own studies and enhance the classroom experience. New notes in the The Profession chapters to reflect the latest trends in casting self-promotion and audition practice. Acting in Musical Theatre’s chapters divide into easy-to-reference units each containing group and solo exercises making it the definitive textbook for students and practitioners alike. | Acting in Musical Theatre A Comprehensive Course

GBP 44.99
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The Places of Van Morrison’s Songwriting Venturing in the Slipstream

The Places of Van Morrison’s Songwriting Venturing in the Slipstream

What can we learn about Van Morrison’s life and work as a songwriter through his songs? This book looks closely at the lyrics and music from a selection of his songs. Some are very well-known - ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ ‘Cleaning Windows’ and ‘The Healing Game’. Others are less familiar. Through these songs the book offers insights into some of the most important ideas that the songwriter has explored across his five-decade plus career starting from the Them period and extending through his solo albums. These readings show how thinking about Morrison’s use of place provides a specific lens that contributes to a greater understanding of his art. The songs are organized into chapters that reflect many of the important places in Morrison’s work as he ventured professionally and imaginatively away from the places of his upbringing towards a wider musical world. These places are in city streetscapes and country landscapes – in home places of streets and ditches in the enclosed spaces of rooms in the expansive reaches of the natural world in indeterminate and specific foreign lands. A picture emerges of the journey that Van Morrison details through his songs one that sees him first wandering as a boy through his East Belfast haunts and then venturing out to a wider world away from this local place. | The Places of Van Morrison’s Songwriting Venturing in the Slipstream

GBP 120.00
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Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician

Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician

Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician provides undergraduate music majors in class piano courses with the techniques and fundamentals they need to flourish into independent versatile musicians who play with confidence and sensitivity. Organized by skill (rather than level) the topics sequenced in this textbook offer endless flexibility for instructors while guiding students in a step-by-step approach through the development of essential keyboard skills—such as reading harmonization improvisation and accompaniment—supporting concepts learned in music theory ear training private lessons methods classes and ensemble courses. One can draw from many sections of the book in any given class or semester covering a wide range of piano skills that foster abilities frequently used in a myriad of musical professions. Features: Over 400 sightreading transposition and score reading examples along with 125 harmonization Melodies Project assignments that promote independent learning expose students to new musical styles and encourage collaboration A concluding Repertoire section with lists of solo and duet music 10 ensemble arrangements 6 duets and additional pieces from the Baroque Classical Romantic and Post-Romantic eras Music examples include numerous works by composers from marginalized backgrounds and from global folk music No prior piano background knowledge needed Explaining the core elements of keyboard learning in an accessible and responsive format while accentuating the importance of learning how to learn Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician offers an essential resource for all class piano students and instructors.

GBP 48.99
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Innovation and Impact of Sex as Leisure in Research and Practice

Innovation and Impact of Sex as Leisure in Research and Practice

This book responds to the need to investigate the complex links between sex and leisure and their implications for research and practice. Understanding sex as leisure aligns with sex-positive culture that focuses on affirming pleasure in the contemporary sexual discourse and advocating for sexual diversity freedom empowerment and fulfilling sex lives. The focus of this book is on analyzing the complexity of sex as leisure in various socio-cultural and geographical contexts with particular reference to vulnerable populations and pressing sexual issues including sexual pleasure and expression biomedicalization of sexuality and social justice and sexuality. Specific chapters offer diverse international coverage and address the links between a positive sexuality framework and leisure research. The chapters cover sexual play and sex toys based on consumer experience perspectives; using the leisure lens to analyze sex and pornography addiction; quadriplegic sexuality and leisure; rejection and resilience on a gay cruise; relational dynamics of aging exploitation and deceit in sex tourism; sexual harassment of solo female travelers; and the complexity of consent in the sexualized leisure space of a pornography expo. This book will be of great value to those interested in transdisciplinary scholarship as it critically broadens the bio-psycho-socio-cultural perspective of sex as leisure. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Leisure Sciences. | Innovation and Impact of Sex as Leisure in Research and Practice

GBP 130.00
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Towards Good Lighting for the Stage Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design

Towards Good Lighting for the Stage Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design

Towards Good Lighting for the Stage: Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design explores the theoretical underpinnings of effective lighting design from conceptualization to live performance. Through an investigation of the author’s own aesthetic point of view—grounded in a broad investigation of art and design that blends pop culture and fine art theory and practice—this book documents the author’s thinking on the design process to fill the unexplored gap between an aesthetic philosophy and its expression in composition. Redefinitions of the artist artwork and spectator link beauty and artistic efficacy to arrive at a set of principles for assessment that demand that contemporary lighting design surpass utilitarian visibility to become a vital part of the total artwork that is a theatrical production. Inspired by the movements of the broader art and design worlds of the mid-19th century through present day—citing influences as diverse as Jennifer Tipton Lois Tyson Dieter Rams and Dave Hickey—this book charts a course from the artistic team’s dramaturgical work to a solo studio concept to the tech table. Engaging and wide-ranging Towards Good Lighting for the Stage synthesizes years of cross-disciplinary research and case studies of the author’s own work into provocative reading for practitioners of lighting design advanced students and academics as well as those interested in connecting theatrical practice aesthetic theory and visual art. | Towards Good Lighting for the Stage Aesthetic Theory for Theatrical Lighting Design

GBP 29.99
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Women and Travel Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Women and Travel Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Women and Travel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives is a fascinating look at the behavior motivations experiences and needs of women as tourists and travellers drawing on both historic and contemporary eras. Surprisingly little research has explored key issues experiences and opportunities in the context of women’s travel. This revealing volume fills this gap exploring the discourses debates and discussions about women travel and tourism. With an international roster of contributors from diverse regions of the world the book celebrates a variety of women’s voices. Khoo-Lattimore and Wilson deliberately sought to include nontraditional and non-Western perspectives on women’s travel with inclusions of Asian solo female travelers; Islamic women travellers and the constraints placed on them; and women who cannot travel (or choose for whatever reason a ‘home holiday’). This enlightening volume brings together scholars from the broad areas of tourism hospitality geography and leisure studies to examine how and why women travel. The chapters bring light to perspectives from different countries cultures backgrounds and religions and utilize different methods approaches and styles of presentation. Women and Travel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives will be of interest to academics and graduate students from a range of disciplines including tourism leisure studies sociology cultural geography anthropology feminist and gender studies business economics and management; as well as professionals working in the tourism industry particularly those with an interest in niche markets and segmentation. | Women and Travel Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

GBP 82.99
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The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz

The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz

The violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) is considered among the most influential performers in history and still maintains a strong following among violinists around the world. Dario Sarlo contributes significantly to the growing field of analytical research into recordings and the history of performance style. Focussing on Heifetz and his under-acknowledged but extensive performing relationship with the Bach solo violin works (BWV 1001-1006) Sarlo examines one of the most successful performing musicians of the twentieth century along with some of the most frequently performed works of the violin literature. The book proposes a comprehensive method for analysing and interpreting the legacies of prominent historical performers in the wider context of their particular performance traditions. The study outlines this research framework and addresses how it can be transferred to related studies of other performers. By building up a comprehensive understanding of multiple individual performance styles it will become possible to gain deeper insight into how performance style develops over time. The investigation is based upon eighteen months of archival research in the Library of Congress’s extensive Jascha Heifetz Collection. It draws on numerous methods to examine what and how Heifetz played why he played that way and how that way of playing compares to other performers. The book offers much insight into the ’music industry’ between 1915 and 1975 including touring programming audiences popular and professional reception and recording. The study concludes with a discussion of Heifetz’s unique performer profile in the context of violin performance history. | The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz

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Relational Leadership Theory Practice and Development

Relational Leadership Theory Practice and Development

The traditional idea of leadership as being about the solo heroic leader has now run its course. A new way of thinking about leadership is now needed to address major challenges such as achieving greater social responsibility enhancing leadership capacity and recognising the importance of context as affecting how leadership occurs. Relational leadership offers a new perspective of leadership that addresses these challenges. At its core relational leadership recognises leadership as centred in the relationships that form between both formal and informal leaders and those that follow them far more so than the personality or behaviours of individual leaders. This book introduces readers to the most up-to-date research in this area and the differing theoretical perspectives that can help us better understand leadership as a relational phenomenon. Important characteristics of effective leadership relationships such as trust respect and mutuality are discussed focusing on how they develop and how they bring about leadership effects. Specific forms of relational leadership such as shared leadership responsible leadership global team leadership and complexity leadership are addressed in subsequent chapters. The book is the first to examine recent ideas about how these new forms of relational leadership are put into practice as well as techniques tools and strategies available to organisations to help do so. The inclusion of three detailed case studies is specifically designed to help readers understand many of the key concepts covered in the book with key learning points emphasised. The book offers an excellent summary of the state-of-the-art topics in this new and exciting field of relational leadership. | Relational Leadership Theory Practice and Development

GBP 36.99
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Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs

Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs

After Robert Armin joined the Chamberlain's Men singing in Shakespeare's dramas catapulted from 1. 25 songs and 9. 95 lines of singing per play to 3. 44 songs and 29. 75 lines of singing a virtually unnoticed phenomenon. In addition many of the songs became seemingly improvisatory—similar to Armin's personal style as an author and solo comedian. In order to study Armin's collaborative impact this interdisciplinary book investigates the songs that have Renaissance music that could have been heard on Shakespeare's stage. They occur in some of Shakespeare's most famous plays including Much Ado About Nothing Twelfth Night Hamlet and The Tempest. In fact Shakespeare's plays as we have them are not complete. They are missing the music that could have accompanied the plays’ songs. Significantly Renaissance vocal music far beyond just providing entertainment was believed to alter the bodies and souls of both performers and auditors to agree with its characteristics directly inciting passions from love to melancholy. By collaborating with early modern music editor and performing artist Lawrence Lipnik Catherine Henze is able to provide new performance editions of seventeen songs including spoken interruptions and cuts and rearrangement of the music to accommodate the dramatist's words. Next Henze analyzes the complete songs words and music according to Renaissance literary and music primary sources and applies the new information to interpretations of characters and scenes frequently challenging commonly held literary assessments. The book is organized according to Armin's involvement with the plays before during and after the comic actor joined Shakespeare's company. It offers readers the tools to interpret not only these songs but also vocal music in dramas by other Renaissance playwrights. Moreover Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs written with non-specialized terminology provides a

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