E-book Reconstructing the Future : Cities as Carbon Sinks

A challenge is that transforming these sectors must have a focus on equity because large parts of the world population depend on these two sectors and have their livelihoods connected to them. More than 500 million small farms form part of the world food systems, many of these farm families live in inadequate housing, and many are among the approximately 830 million undernourish…

E-book Ethical Musicality

Ethical problems, dilemmas, and unpleasant experiences arise in real-life settings. There may be a friend calling for advice in a difficult situation or when waiting at a bus stop seeing a person losing balance and hitting their head when collapsing. What is sensible advice, and what is the right thing to do in the specific setting? Ethics unfolds as lived experiences in our daily…

E-book Can Music Make You Sick? : Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition

‘The music industry’ is commonly understood as a singular entity that is often portrayed as a place of shared concerns and goals. However, as many observers and academics have pointed out, this singular term is misleading and the very idea of a united place belies the reality which is ridden with tension and full of competing interests and industries (see Sterne, 2014). It is withi…

E-book YouTube and Music : Online Culture and Everyday Life

‘All right, so here we are in front of the elephants.’ This is the opening sentence of the first video ever uploaded to YouTube.1 What started in 2005 as an online platform for the upload of ‘homemade videos’ and the sharing of ‘ordinary people’s lives’ quickly became the nucleus of an intricate web of audiovisual interactions that reached through and beyond cyberspace. The year 2…

E-book Princess Mononoke : Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess

When it came out in 1997, Hayao Miyazaki’s Mononokehime ( Princess Mononoke ) was a new kind of anime fi lm. It broke long- standing Japanese box offi ce records that had been set by Hollywood fi lms, and in becoming a blockbuster- sized hit Mononokehime demonstrated the commercial power of anime in Japan. 1 F u r t h e r , Mononokehime became the fi rst…

E-book China and the West : Reconsidering Chinese Reverse Glass Painting

Most of the following contributions are based on a two-day workshop held in February 2020 at the Vitromusée Romont, the Swiss Museum of Stained Glass and Glass Art, to commemorate the exhibition Reflets de Chine: Trois siècles de peinture sous verre chinoise, one of the first exhibitions in the West that presented a major survey dedicat-ed to Chinese reverse glass painting, tracing its long h…

E-book SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy: Soaking Up Secrets Under the Sea!

SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy introduces fans of SpongeBob SquarePants to some of the great thinkers and questions in philosophy. The essays can be shared by young and old alike, kindling new interest in philosophy and life’s big questions. What keeps SpongeBob “reeling in” major audiences on a daily basis is that underneath the lighthearted and whimsical exterior are the seeds of …

E-book Comedy: A Very Short Introduction

To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage irony?

E-book Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction

The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the ide…

E-book Film: A Very Short Introduction

Film is arguably the dominant art form of the twentieth century. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Wood offers a wealth of insight into the nature of film, considering its role and impact on society as well as its future in the digital age. As Wood notes, film is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often quite fal…

E-book Architecture: A Very Short Introduction

This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach and instead gives us an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires mea…

E-book Gillian Armstrong : Popular, Sensual & Ethical Cinema

Four minutes into Gillian Armstrong’s last major fi lm, Women He’s Undressed (2015), costume designer Orry-Kelly delivers an unin-terrupted monologue describing the early days in his friendship with Archie Leach/Cary Grant in the years when they fi rst arrived in New York City, before either became famous. Kelly delivers the monologue while seated in a red rowboat on the …

E-book Small Cities with Big Dreams : Creative Placemaking and Branding Strat…

Cities have been profoundly affected by the challenges of economic restructuring and positioning in a globalizing world. They have strug-gled to reshape themselves physically to create new opportunities, or to rebrand themselves to create distinction and attract attention. Their strategies often draw on a limited range of “models”, taken from large industrial cities un…

E-book Fonthill Recovered : A Cultural History

Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is usually associated with the writer and collector William Beckford, who built his Gothic fantasy house Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eight-eenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for over- arching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story …

E-book Between Air and Electricity : Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical …

Are microphones and loudspeakers musical instruments?This question is the starting point for my book Between Air and Electricity which tells the story of how microphones and loudspeakers have changed music over the past 100 years through artistic experiments and innovation. It is very common nowadays to have microphones and loudspeakers used on stage next to musicians and conventional musical i…

E-book Arts, Religion, and the Environment : Exploring Nature's Texture

Now that we are on the threshold of the Anthropocene epoch, how should humans envision and understand their place in the world? Do humans possess the necessary cultural tools to imagine new possibilities and relationships with the natural environment at a time when our material surroundings (the very system that supports us physically and spiritually) is under siege? To answer questions like th…

E-book The cinema of Oliver Stone : Art, authorship and activism

In fact, Oliver Stone’s career was never as outrageously conten-tious as this when it started, neither was it even at the putative height of his artistic and commercial powers in the decade that spanned the late 1980s and early 1990s. From unlikely writ-ing credits for The Hand (1981), which he also directed, Conan the Barbarian (John Milius, 198…

E-book The Race of Sound : Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African America…

Whether the vocalizer is heard over the radio or the phone, as part of a movie soundtrack or in person—positioned far away and therefore hard to see or speaking right in front of the listener—the foundational question asked in the act of listening to a human voice is Who is this? Who is speaking? Regardless of whether the vocalizer is visible or invisible to the l…

E-book The Persistence of Dance : Choreography as Concept and Material in Con…

Among what some have described as a domination of dance and chore-ography within the recent performative turn in the museal sector, defini-tions, specificities, and careful framing have often been lacking.5 Various iterations of dance in the gallery have included adaptations of stage-based works for the new context, works made for proscenium theaters located in multi-arts centers (such as t…

E-book Jamaica Making : The Theresa Roberts Art Collection

his exhibition at the historic Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool, comprises almost entirely of art works in the collection of Theresa Roberts, who is founder and owner of the Jamaica Patty Co. restaurant, based in Covent Garden, London.Theresa Roberts was born in Jamaica to parents who emigrated to the United Kingdom as part of the ‘Windrush Generation’: those who were invited by Briti…

E-book 27 Stars, 27 Gods: The Astrological Mythology of Ancient India

Over a decade of dedicated research! Over a year of writing and editing! With the blessings and guidance of a swami , a babaji, and a Sanskrit scholar, Vic DiCara presents you the world's most definitive, simple and completely awesome explanation of the mythology and meaning within the 27 stars of ancient Indian astrology!

E-book Revolutionary Bodies : Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy

Through their emphasis on innovation, Chinese dance practitioners interpret their research to create new forms. The removal of singing or speech in Shao’s sleeve dance choreography represents her obvious departure from xiqu, in which song and speech are usually considered essential to a complete performance. The rhythmical mapping of Shao’s classroom choreography onto e…

E-book Versification : Metrics in Practice

Emic approaches oen run counter to the tendency to abstract poetic forms and how they “work” as strict ideal systems. Instead, emic approaches attend to variation as symptomatic of the potential for exibility that may also have functions or meanings in performance (Foley 2002: 33; see also Kallio, this volume). Emic terms are oen brought into focus for …

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E-book Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt

A fascinating chronicle of an extraordinary epoch—from the first Stone Age settlements through the reign of Cleopatra and the Roman invasions—Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs brings ancient Egypt to life as never before. Lavishly illustrated with pictures, maps, photographs, and charts, it offers tantalizing glimpses into Egyptian society and everyday life; amazing stories of the pharaohs an…

E-book How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop : Radio, Rap, and Race

In July 1992, Seattle rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot topped the Billboard “Hot 100” chart with his insatiably catchy hit “Baby Got Back.” His ode to ladies who “look like those rap guys’ girlfriends” wasn’t anywhere near the only rap song that year to do well on the “Hot 100,” which recorded the most popular songs in the United …

E-book Java: Guide to The Temples of Borobudur & Prambanan

Java is home to two of the most impressive temples in all of southeast Asia: Buddhist Borobudur and Hindu Prambanan. Borobudur (built 760-830) rises gradually in a series of majestic tiers, a testament to its stupa-mound inspiration; while Prambanan (built 850-856) soars vertically, drawing on south Indian temple prototypes. Both inspire with their innovative architectural designs, world-class …

E-book The Watlington Hoard : Coinage, Kings and the Viking Great Army in Oxf…

The hoard that forms the focus for this book was discovered on farmland in the vicinity of the small Oxfordshire town of Watlington in October 2015. It consists of 203 coins, most of which were issued by the early-medieval kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia in the late 870s, and silver ingots and metalwork — some in the form of fragmented hack-silver and a single piece of hack-gold. The metalwork …

E-book Thomas Annan of Glasgow : Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph

Victorian Scotland was the site of an astonishing florescence of photography, and Thomas Annan was one of an impressive cohort of Scottish masters of the young medium. Born in 1829 into a farming and flax-spinning family in Dairsie, Fife, in the East of Scotland, he left home at the age of fifteen to join the staff of the local Fife Herald newspaper, based in the nearby county capital of Cupar,…

E-book Contact Zones : Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the…

Histories of migration to the United States are also a history of American photogra-phy. Yet, the relationship between these histories are rarely discussed in surveys of the history of photography in America. Neither are immigrants’ uses and circula-tion of photographs discussed in the historiographies of the European immigration to the United States.1 However, US migration history and the hi…

E-book Comics of the New Europe : Reflections and Intersections

Despite claiming to offer surveys of “world comics,” global histories of graphic narrative replicate some of the aporias present in the relatively impossible category of “world” or “global” literature.2 Even more narrowly defined surveys of European comics focus primarily on the “Franco-Belgian” tradition, thus swiftly setting aside …

E-book Make It New : Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century

Organizing this book into chapters that read like magazine profiles makes it more digestible for readers and allows them to read the chapters in whichever order they prefer. Goldberg’s book was structured that way, as was series editor Martin Williams’s similarly readable Jazz Masters of New Orleans (1967). More challenging was deciding which artists to include. I made a…

E-book Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America

ver the past two decades Latin America has seen an expansion in the publication and consumption of comics. This renaissance is benefiting from transnational dialogues and exchanges: in 2017, for example, the publishing house :e(m)r;, based in Rosario, Argentina, produced a groundbreaking compilation of comics by artists from over 10 Latin American …

E-book More and More: A Guide to a Harmonized System

If you have an ability to sell, and an air of diplomacy, import /export is a great way to build up a successful business from nothing and have fun doing it. Not only does it require little financial investment to start, but it offers the prestige of working with clients from all over the world. You don’t need previous experience in the field, but you should have a good head for organizing. Fu…

E-book Art, Research, Philosophy

What is‘artistic research’? I say‘artistic research’. I could have used a number ofalternative names:‘art as research’,‘arts-based research’,‘creative research’,‘fine artresearch’,‘practice-based research’,‘practice-led research’and‘visual arts research’.It is by no means clear whether they all refer to exactly the same thing. I don’tpropose to identify how…

E-book Drawing Futures

The Albertian paradigm of architecture as an allographic1practice implies that architectural design comprises forms of notation and representation. It would seem that mediums2 are all that architects engage with. Architecture is primarily a cultural, visual practice that operates through design, understood as composition and the arrangement of relations. While architects work with drawings and …

E-book Games and Bereavement : How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss and…

Videogames are the medium of loss and death. Videogame characters frequently fall from cliffs (Super Mario Bros.), get shot (Space Inva-ders), and go bankrupt (Theme Hospital). Sometimes they die in swimming pools (The Sims), are butchered by rotating blades (Super Meat Boy), impaled (Tomb Raider), or flattened by rolling boulders (Crash Bandicoot)…

E-book Theatre and War : Notes from the Field

The auto-ethnographic components and analyses in this book are shaped by projects that I have used a variety of terms to name: Community Theatre, Theatre for Social Change, Applied Theatre, Social Theatre, and Political Theatre. While I acknowledge that each of these terms comes with its own histories and complications, the issue of nomenclature is not one that I enga…

E-book Chronicles from Kashmir : An Annotated, Multimedia Script

Exploring the legitimate scope and space for theatre in a conflict zone like Kashmir is an extremely uphill task. It involves many social, cultural, religious, political and economic challenges, and above all, the risk to one’s life, property and reputation. Jammu and Kashmir have been a bone of contention since 1947, when this Subcontinent was divided…

E-book Mind Museums : Former Asylums and the Heritage of Mental Health

This book is grounded in the belief that there is a need to talk more about mental health from the perspective of both historical and current issues and practices. This is what Catharine Coleborne, internationally renowned scholar in the field of mad studies and histories of mental health and psychiatry, also maintains in her most recent book Why Talk About Madness (2020). Here, Coleborn…

E-book Chandragupta Maurya : The creation of a national hero in India

We take it for granted that some ancient figures become heroes, and others do not. When we consider the question at all, it is usually assumed that such transformations are largely a matter of chance. And while there may be cases in which sheer luck is involved, this book shows that heroes can also be shaped by the tide and pull of historical forces and determined personalities. He…

E-book Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989

Barry Unsworth, the British Booker Prize- winning author, was, in a sense, the creative catalyst for this volume. While researching the late- twentieth- century revival of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis on international stages, Edith Hall was led from drama to fi ction by reading Unsworth’s 2002 novel, Th e Songs of the Kings . 1Unsworth’s novel pinpointed on…

E-book Sounds of War and Peace : Soundscapes of European Cities in 1945

World War II radically altered the image of many European cities. Some, like Warsaw and Dresden, were almost completely destroyed, and became symbols both of war-time barbarism and of the recuperative power of their respective nations. Others, like Wroc?aw (previously Breslau) and Lviv (previously Lwów-Lvov), were assigned by the signatories of international treaties to a different st…

E-book Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us

The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America, showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire, race, and coalition.

E-book Drawing Portraits: Faces and Figures (The Art of Drawing)

A practical easy-to-follow guide, which shows how to observe and draw portraits of children and adults - and how to capture a likeness.

E-book Music of a Thousand Years : A New History of Persian Musical Traditions

In the fall of 2000, I was sitting in one of my classes at UCLA, eagerly awaiting an announced guest speaker. He was coming to teach us about traditional Persian music, one of Iran’s great music traditions. I was excited because I already had some knowledge of Arabic and Turkish music, but at the time I knew much less about Persian music. Arabic and Turkish music had…

E-book Music : Arts Education

The arts are organised expressions of ideas, feelings and experiences in images, in music, in language, in gesture and in movement. They provide for sensory, emotional, intellectual and creative enrichment and contribute to the child’s holistic development. Much of what is finest in society is developed through a variety of art forms which contribute to cultural ethos and to a sense of well-b…

E-book A Stage of Emancipation : Change and Progress at the Dublin Gate Theatre

In his introduction to Irish Drama and Theatre since 1950 (2019), Patrick Lonergan outlines the genealogy of the #WakingTheFeminists movement, which began as a contestation of how the Abbey’s 2016 Waking the Nation programme marginalised female playwrights and directors, but quickly expanded to raise awareness about the precarious position of women in …

E-book Postdramatic Dramaturgies : Resonances between Asia and Europe

4|Kai Tuchmannartists are represented by a transcription of their opening lecture (together with a video link) and a script of a performance piece that is representative of their approach. It is essential to be aware that the latter are not classical drama texts and that they thus only acquire their actual function when performed. By making these lectures public, I wish to provide…