E-book Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation : Another Way of K…

Growing up in Boston, in the late 1970s, we saw Black motherhood as insepa-rable from Black Glamour. Our mother, Volora, a young R&B and jazz singer, and model had two types of photographs in our apartment, professional photographs of herself stored in a black leather portfolio with riveted han-dles and color polaroid images taken by our father, which lived in our family a…

E-book Black Dragon : Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination

In August 1969, a group of local Japanese martial arts masters in New York invited Ronald Duncan, a burgeoning Black1 American practitioner of the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu, commonly translated as the “art of stealth,” to exhibit his techniques as part of the second International Convention of Martial Arts hosted by Black Belt mag…

E-book Futures and Beyond : Creativity and 4IR Conference 2022

The Futures and Beyond: Creativity and 4IR virtual conference was hosted online by UJ Arts & Culture on 30 and 31 August 2022. The University of Johannesburg has positioned the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) as its visionary focus in research and higher education, and UJ Arts & Culture, as a division of the Faculty of Art, Design and …

E-book Turkish Drama Serials : The Importance and Influence of a Globally Pop…

n little more than a decade, Turkish serials have grown from being simply a popular television format in Türkiye, to solidifying their place within international popular culture, having won the hearts of audiences across the globe.1This book explores a significant development in television that started with Turkish dramas taking Arab screens by storm, and later expanding …

E-book The Hybrid Practitioner : Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture

Are architects who write a dying race?”1 asked Belgian architectural theorist and historian Hilde Heynen in 2017, reflecting on the position of the practis-ing architect as a writing scholar in the academic field. In her article, Heynen compares Joan Ockman’s Architecture Culture 1943–1968: A Documentary Anthology with Michael Hays’s selection in Architecture Theory s…

E-book Brokers of Modernity : East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist A…

In 1925 a rare type of building made its appearance in the literary world: a house entirely constructed of glass, prefabricated yet individualized, light but stable, flat-roofed but with walls which changed colour according to the surrounding land-scape. The cavity walls allowed for the movement of water – warm in winter-time and cold in summer-time – which generated a co…

E-book Sports and Human Rights

Historically, SGBs have been given significant autonomy when organizing sporting competitions as well as regarding their internal structure and regulations. One explanation for this is the idea that (international) sports should not be subject to the political influence of specific states, and that athletes should be free to organize their activitie…

E-book Cricket Lesson Plans

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) has partnered with Cricket Australia to develop 8 curriculum-aligned lesson plans for primary school teachers. These lessons are appropriate for students in Years 3 and 4. Some games may require teacher modification to ensure they are accessible for all students. The lesson plans aim to build students’ confidence and competence to participate in cri…

E-book Peraturan Resmi Bola Voli 2021-2024

Bolavoli adalah olahraga yang dimainkan oleh dua tim di dalam lapangan permainan yang dipisahkan oleh net. Ada versi yang berbeda untuk kondisi tertentu dan itu bertujuan agar bentuk permainan ini dikenal oleh semua orang. Tujuan permainan itu sendiri adalah melewatkan bola di atas net untuk tujuan mendaratkan bola di lapangan lawan dan mencegah agar lawan tidak bisa melakukan hal tersebut. Seb…

E-book The Inner Game of Tennis

Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game, and an inner game. The outer game is played against an external opponent to overcome external obstacles and to reach an external goal. Mas- - taring this game is the subject of many books offering instructions: on how to swing a racket, club or bat, and how to position arms, legs or torso to achieve the best results. But for some reason, …

E-book The Weapons And Fighting Arts Of Indonesia

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E-book The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas at the Dallas Mus…

In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and ritual objects, artwork from Southeast Asia, and decorative arts from India’s Mughal period. Artworks in the collection have origins from the former…

E-book Drumming in Bhaktapur : Music of the Newar People of Nepal

The Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley and beyond are an ethnic group of Nepal that absorbed many cultural influences from South Asia over the past two thousand years. Their Newari language belongs to the Tibeto-Burmese language group. Their admirable musical culture saw its heyday during the rule of the later Malla kings of Bhaktapur, Patan and Kathmandu (13th to 18th centu…

E-book Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe: Visual Culture and the Reconstru…

After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings. Seen today, documentaries and newsreels, as well as the amateur production, show the kaleidoscopic portrait of a changing Europe. How did these cinematic images contribute to shaping the new societies emerging from the ashes of war, both in the Western…

E-book FIM World Championship Grand Prix Regulations 2022

The FIM, through the Grand Prix Commission and the Grand Prix Permanent Bureau, may at any time amend any or all provisions of the Regulations. Any subsequent changes that take place after the printed versions are completed will be made electronically, and the on-line versions will be the prevailing versions. Which shall meet on a regular basis to discuss and decide on all issues of the FIM Gra…

E-book The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer

In today’s hypercompetitive world, contact sports bring about fierce rivalries between fans, between players, and even between countries. From the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Michigan Wolverines in grid iron football, to the Australian Wallabies and the New Zealand All Blacks in rugby, to Real Madrid and Barcelona in association football (soccer), contact sports incite a passion few other gam…

E-book Structure as Architecture: A Source Book for Architects and Structural…

Structure As Architecture provides readers with an accessible insight into the relationship between structure and architecture, focusing on the design principles that relate to both fields. Over one hundred case studies of contemporary buildings from countries across the globe including the UK, the US, France, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia are interspersed throughout the book. The aut…

E-book Interior Color by Design: A Design Tool for Architects, Interior Desig…

Effective color selection can be a powerful element in any design. "Interior Color By Design" takes the mystery out of the color application process by: Providing over 250 color samples to experiment with different combinations Featuring over 100 full-color images that illustrate key concepts like adjacent colors and overall design Exploring the interactive effects of color combinations on inte…

E-book Japan Style: Architecture Interiors Design

Japan Style introduces 20 special residences. With more than 200 color photographs, this book showcases Japanese design in the stunning beauty of old homes and reveals how they are cared for by their owners. Traditional Japanese homes, with superbly crafted fine wood, great workmanship and seasonal interior arrangements, have an aesthetic of infinite simplicity. Unlike Japanese inns and hist…

E-book Paradise by Design: Tropical Residences and Resorts by Bensley Design …

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E-book The Sustainable Asian House: Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia,…

The Sustainable Asian House celebrates modern architecture as an expression of environmental, social and cultural sustainability, as seen in some of the most breathtaking luxury homes in Southeast Asia. Gorgeous residences in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines beautifully exemplify the trend towards sustainable architecture that engages with the natural world. The 2…

E-book 2023 Formula One Impact Report

Over its 73-year history, the sport of F1® has pioneered numerous technologies and innovations that have positively contributed to society. Our engineering excellence is now driving our sustainability strategy and delivery, as we focus on how we can improve our own impact as well as positively influencing the wider global transportation network. To deliver our sustainability strategy, stakehol…

E-book Belonging, Detachment and the Representation of Musical Identities in …

Belonging, Detachment and the Representation of Musical Identities in Visual Culture is a volume of 28 essays exploring aspects of identity/ies in the field of music in visual culture. It is dedicated to the memory of Dorothea Baumann (1946–2022), an energetic champion of music iconographic research. Organised in six sections, the book explores theory and methodology; notation, intertextualit…

E-book Love and Intrigue

Friedrich Schiller wrote Love and Intrigue (Kabale und Liebe) in 1782 after having fled from his native Württemberg, and completed it in early 1784. It was ready for the first stage performance in Mannheim on 13 April 1784. Duke Karl August, the ruler of Württemberg, had not appreciated Schiller’s talent and was more interested in his services as …

E-book Telling Sounds: Tracing Music History in Digital Media Archives

How are music and sound involved in the creation of audiovisual documents? What kind of quantitative and qualitative research permits the examination of music and, more generally, sound for Austrian (music) history on the basis of digitized audiovisual sources? These questions were approached in the interdisciplinary Digital Humanities project “Telling Sounds” at the Universität für Musik…

E-book Gaspar van Weerbeke: Perspektives on his Life and Music

The known facts of Gaspar van Weerbeke’s life point to a composer who was one of the most successful and important of his lifetime. Born in the mid-fifteenth century in the city of Oudenaarde in the Burgundian Netherlands, now in the province of East Flanders, he occupied positions of prestige in the best-known musical institutions of the time: the Sforza court in Milan, the Burgundian court …

E-book The Pop Theology of Videogames : Producing and Playing with Religion

During f ieldwork at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, I spent most of the week explaining my research to game designers. With over 28,000 of them attending GDC that year, there was a lot of explaining to do. The most common question was not, “Why do you study what we make?” Most game developers are acutely aware that their industry is the largest and most interesting c…

E-book Dancing Youth : Hip Hop and Gender in Late Socialist Vietnam

Hip hop is from the United States. So, in Vietnam they copy from gangsterrap videos, right?” “Hip hop is violent and misogynistic. So, why should it bea good thing for young Vietnamese people to engage with hip hop?” These aresome of the many concerned questions that I am often confronted with whentellingpeopleaboutmyresearchonyouthandhiphopinVietnam.Whatthesequestions imply, among many o…

E-book Screen Space Reconfigured

Immersed in digital 3D stereoscopic vision, we f loat in a low orbit above Earth’s atmospheric threshold, which glows blue against an otherwise black screen. A velvety, thick silence fortif ies the authenticity of this senso-rial encounter made possible by way of seamless integration between cinematographic excellence and high-performance computation. In this visually immense opening sequence…

E-book Digital Embodiment and the Arts : Exploring Hybrid Spaces through Emer…

This book is more than fifteen years in the making, although its origins go back much further than that, most likely pointing to a darkened almost empty local cinema more than 30 years ago in 1991. I had convinced two of my loyal friends to attend the screening of a new film entitled Prospero’s Books directed by artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway. I sat there mesmerised by its innovative us…

E-book Eyewitness: Arms & Armor

Full-color photos. "An eye grabber: large, clear photographic layouts of weapons share pages with explanatory text and definitive illustrations. Each double spread covers a subject, from primitive weapons to the 'Guns That Won the West'; it's easy to forget their function in the beauty of the pieces and their clever designs. The weapons from the Middle Ages are breathtaking simply as art. A plu…

E-book Eyewitness Companions : Film

History, genres, world cinemas, A-Z of directors, top 100 movies.

Ebook Eyewitness Books: Da Vinci and His Times

An overview of the philosophy, inventions, art, government, religion, and daily life of the Renaissance.

E-book Tracks from the Crypt

Is film a medium of communication? This is a basic question of film studies. It is about as old as the field itself, and the discursive frameworks and underlying assumptions that make the question relevant are about as old as the medium, or the art form, of cinema itself. As John Durham Peters argues, “only since the late nineteenth century have we defined ourselves in terms our ability to co…

E-book Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of …

When the Immediations book series at Open Humanities Press was launched, it was done with Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the intercessor1 in mind. We were looking for a way to give voice to a kind of collaboration that would work from within the weave of research and writing, a collaboration that would give texture to a voice (or a multiplicity of voice) toward a conversation to come. A conversa…

E-book Theatre in Towns

While we were researching theatre in towns for this book, a perfor-mance was taking place across Europe. Little Amal, a giant child- refugee puppet, began a walk from Gazientep in Turkey, close to the Syrian border, a city that had become home to half a million refu-gees during the ten-year-long war. Little Amal travelled more than 8000 kilometres be…

E-book Ibsen at the Theatrical Crossroads of Europe : A Performance History o…

The aim of this book is to investigate the performance history of Henrik Ibsen in the Ro-manian theatre from the end of the 19thcentury to the first half of the 20thcentury.On the one hand, the quantitative analysis of data on the early Romanian produc-tionsofIbsen’splaysbetween1894and1947revealsthathewasnotperformedwithgreatfrequency in either the major state or independent theatres. Yet, it…

E-book Arts of The Samurai

The legends of the Japanese warrior-statesmen, referred to as the samurai, are renowned for accounts of military valor and political intrigue—epic conflicts between powerful lords, samurai vassals, and the imperial court—as well as accounts of profound self-sacrifice and loyalty. The term samurai is derived from the word saburau, or “one who serves.” The evolution of the samurai from mo…

E-book Pynchon’s Sound of Music

When Penguin announced the upcoming release of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice in 2009, they heightened the suspense with two marketing gimmicks. One was a series of short movie trailers with Pynchon providing Doc Sportello’s slurred voice. The other one was a playlist of songs that would be mentioned in the novel. The choice of media was fitting since film…

E-book The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

When Carl Maria von Weber conducted Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Dresden in the 1820s, one of the people sitting in the auditorium was the Italian singer Luigi Bassi who had created the title role back in 1787. And he was not pleased with what he saw. ‘Bassi generally passed the judgement on all Don Giovannis whom he and I saw performing’, his friend Count Hohenthal recalled a few years afte…

E-book Under Construction : Performing Critical Identity

At the turn of the 2020s, identity seems to remain an omnipresent and somewhatunseizable term, serving different views in and outside academia, in politics,in everyday talk, in intellectual and popular jargon, as well as in the arts. While,currently, identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend tosimplify and reduce life experience to simple factors globally …

E-book Verdi in Victorian London

Giuseppe Verdi’s first success was Nabucco, given in Milan on 9 March 1842. Although this was Verdi’s third opera,1 the composer referred to it as the first milestone in what would become a life-long, successful career. “With Nabucco,” he declared to Count Opprandino Arrivabeneyears later, “my career can be said to have begun.”2 However, when Verdi made his f…

E-book The Management of Opera (1861-1918) : Theatres of the Eastern Adriatic

The present research intends to trace the presence of opera and reconstruct the organisa-tional system in the theatres situated along the coastline of present-day Croatia in the period immediately following the constitution of the first Diet of Dalmatia (1861) until the end of the First World War. The period is sufficiently broad to permit us to understand and define the workings of both the im…

E-book Nordic Knitting Traditions: Knit 25 Scandinavian, Icelandic and Fair I…

Traditional Scandinavian and Icelandic designs are given new life in the projects found in Nordic Knitting Traditions. 25 projects feature original floral, star, feather and geometric motifs, all knit in fresh and modern colors. With a diverse collection of hats, tams, mittens, gloves, socks, knee-highs and legwarmers, you'll find plenty of jaw-dropping, colorful accessories to knit for yoursel…

E-book When Music Takes Over in Film

A cold and grey day in an urban environment, monotony reigns and dictates the mundane lives of the city’s inhabitants. A boy wants to express his love for the girl next door. Timidly at first he starts to sing and an orchestral accompaniment slowly rises as the girl joins him in song and they begin to dance. Here the environment changes,…

E-book Sirens of Modernity : World Cinema via Bombay

Can true love materialize from a transactional affair? Let me turn to a certain Akira Kurosawa in order to broach my preoccupation with this capacious question, one that preoccupied a set of commercial Hindi films in a postwar, post-independence period of the long 1960s. By “Akira Kurosawa,” I am referring to a song sequence (clip 1) from the unassuming…

E-book Here for the Hearing : Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater

Twenty years ago, very few music scholars examined Broadway musicals. If musicologists were a bit slow to approach the musical theater reper-toire (and they were), theorists and analysts arrived—and are only now arriving—more than fashionably late to the party. We hope that this vol-ume loudly announces that we are here.Music theorists care about musical theater. We kn…

E-book Performance Spaces and Stage Technologies : A Comparative Perspective …

This article aims to analyze the composition and structure of street theatersin Chang’an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty in the early 9th century, mainlybased on the novelThe Tale of Li Wa(???).The Tale of Li Wais a love storywritten by Bai Xingjian, a scholar-official; however, it was adapted from astreet play performed by wandering entertainers in Chang’an (Seo 1987b: 476-505).The Tale o…

E-book Performing by the Book?: Musical Negotiations between Text and Act

The challenges and limits for musicians dealing with texts. To perform a musical score implies the transformation of a symbolically coded text into vibrant sound. In Performing by the Book? a carefully selected cadre of artist-researchers dissects this delicate act in critical ways. Offering first-hand insights into the notational, structural and interpretative challenges faced by musicians in …

E-book From Grain to Pixel : The Archival Life of Film in Transition

This book was originally published in 2009 as an attempt to lay the foundations for a new approach to film archival theory and practice. While addressing the ques-tions “what is film?” and, by analogy, “what is film heritage?” in the technological and cultural shift to digital, I moved away from the unproductive opposition analog versus digital and proposed to …