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Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist follows the life of a young man by the name of Carwin as he realizes his biloquial, ventriloquist, talents. Carwin develops this ability to perfection, being able to manipulate his own voice to sound like any person he wants. Carwin is the sequel to Brown's previous work, Wieland; or the Transformation, because Brown wrote it five years afterwards; however, the events in Carwin occur prior to the plot established in Wieland.
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The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by emphasizing the social history, artistic practices, and symbolic meanings of female performers in popular music of Asia.Women surfaced as popular icons in different guises in different Asian countries through different routes of circulation. Often, these women established prominent careers within colonial conditions, which saw Asian societies in rapid transition and the vernacular and familiar articulated with the novel and the foreign. These female performers were not merely symbols of times that were rapidly changing. Nor were they simply the personification of global historical changes. Female entertainers, positioned at the margins of intersecting fields of activities, created something hitherto unknown: they were artistic pioneers of new music, new cinema, new forms of dance and theater, and new behavior, lifestyles, and morals. They were active agents in the creation of local performance cultures, of a newly emerging mass culture, and the rise of a region-wide and globally oriented entertainment industry.Vamping the Stage is the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia, showcasing cutting-edge research conducted by scholars whose methods and perspectives draw from such diverse fields as anthropology, Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and film studies. Led by an impressive introduction written by Weintraub and Barendregt, fourteen contributors analyze the many ways that women performers supported, challenged, and transgressed representations of existing gendered norms in the entertainment industries of China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Placing women's voices in social and historical contexts, the essays explore salient discourses, representations, meanings, and politics of "voice" in Asian popular music.Historicizing the artistic sounds, lyrical texts, and visual images of female performers, the essays reveal how women used popular music to shape the ideas, practices, and meanings of modernity in various Asian contexts and time frames. The ascendency of women as performers paralleled, and in some cases generated, developments in wider society such as suffrage, social and sexual liberation, women as business entrepreneurs and independent income earners, and particularly as models for new life styles. Women's voices, mediated through new technologies of film and the phonograph, changed the soundscape of global popular music and resonate today in all spheres of modern life.
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Les célébrités font partie de notre quotidien : elles imposent leurs propres systèmes de valeurs. Sport, politique, cinéma, musique, télévision sont aujourd'hui les sphères principales du vedettariat. Elles font des vedettes de véritables modèles culturels, sociaux, politiques et économiques. Intimement liée à l'imaginaire de la culture populaire, la célébrité est loin d'être l'apanage du champ artistique, et relève davantage aujourd'hui des espaces médiatiques de masse. Et des arts vivants comme le théâtre et la danse sont aujourd'hui moins représentatifs du star-system. Pourtant, ces pratiques culturelles constituent le fondement archéologique du vedettariat, puisqu'elles sont conditionnées par une performance mais aussi par l'intérêt symbolique qu'elles suscitent auprès du public. Notre ouvrage s'attarde sur cette période d'émergence du vedettariat théâtral, entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle, en observant les discours sur la célébrité, celle des auteurs dramatiques, des directeurs de théâtre, des peintres et décorateurs, mais surtout celle des interprètes (acteurs, chanteurs et danseurs), qui représentent les plus exemplaires témoins de cette forme si singulière de reconnaissance publique. Ont contribué à cet ouvrage : G. Forestier, A. Sanjuan, A. Pellois, D. Chardonnet- Darmaillacq, V. de Santis, S. Bastemeyer, M. Poirson, P. Bourdin, M.-A. Rauch, S. Loncle, C. Giron-Panel, S. Serre, C. Triolaire, F. Naugrette, R. Markovits, S. Olivesi, C. Frigau Manning, R. Jobez, S. Ledda, M. Fazio, A. Picault. Avec une préface d'Éric Ruf, administrateur général de la Comédie-Française et les images cédées gracieusement par la Comédie-Française.
Theater and society. --- Actors. --- Entertainers. --- Fame --- Theater --- Social aspects. --- History.
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"Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist--Josephine Baker was defined by the various public roles that made her 50-year career an exemplar of postmodern identity. Her legacy continues to influence modern culture more than 40 years after her death"--
Dancers --- African American dancers --- African American entertainers --- Political activists --- Baker, Josephine,
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Con questo volume dedicato al teatro ebraico dalle origini al 1948 si viene a colmare una grave lacuna della pubblicistica non solo italiana. Secondo un luogo comune assai diffuso, l’antropologia e la cultura ebraiche sarebbero caratterizzate da un interdetto assoluto nei confronti del teatro. Qui si dimostra ampiamente che un’attenzione nei confronti del teatro – o per meglio dire dell’espressione performativa – tanto intensa quanto peculiare abbia caratterizzato tutta la storia dell’ebraismo. Dall’episodio biblico di Ester alle rappresentazioni carnevalesche del Purim e poi, a partire dalla metà dell’Ottocento, al teatro yiddish, la cultura ebraica è stata costantemente in dialogo con le varie forme della teatralità, sia adattando ai propri scopi modelli delle culture nazionali sia elaborandone di propri. L’excursus di questo volume si ferma all’altezza del 1948, spartiacque di una storia diversa, quella del nuovo Stato d’Israele, uno dei più importanti “esperimenti di modernità” del XX e XXI secolo. Verso la fine di questa prima parte il teatro ebraico incrocia il proprio destino con quello del teatro yiddish. Qui si dà il caso singolare di una civiltà che si è espressa, al momento dell’ingresso nella modernità, in due sistemi teatrali molto differenti, a partire dalla lingua, e spesso in contrasto tra loro. Ed è proprio in questo momento che – nell’intreccio tra impresa sionista, recupero dell’antica lingua e costruzione identitaria dell’Ebreo Nuovo – prende vita il teatro nazionale di Israele.
Jewish theater --- Theater, Yiddish --- History. --- Yiddish theater --- Theater --- Theater, Hebrew --- Theater, Jewish --- Jewish entertainers --- Jews --- jüdisches theater --- Israel --- jiddisch
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There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.
Magic --- Magicians. --- Conjurers --- Conjurors --- Enchanters --- Illusionists (Magicians) --- Legerdemainists --- Sorcerers --- Entertainers --- Tricksters --- Wizards --- History. --- Esoteric sciences --- History of civilization --- Magic.
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Theater --- Blackface entertainers --- Mumming --- Racism and the arts --- Parades --- History. --- History. --- History. --- History. --- History. --- Philadelphia Mummers (Organization) --- History.
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And then I found me is the triumphant story of Noel Tovey's stellar career in London as an actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, director and curator. For more than 30 years, his acclaimed stage productions reached audiences across Europe, South Africa and Australia.
Choreographers --- Dancers --- Theatrical producers and directors --- Aboriginal Australians --- Directors, Theatrical --- Producers, Theatrical --- Stage directors --- Theater directors --- Theatrical directors and producers --- Persons --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Tovey, Noel.
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This book addresses the notion posed by Thomas Kilroy in his definition of a playwright’s creative process: ‘We write plays, I feel, in order to populate the stage’. It gathers eclectic reflections on contemporary Irish theatre from both Irish theatre practitioners and international academics. The eighteen contributions offer innovative perspectives on Irish theatre since the early 1990s up to the present, testifying to the development of themes explored by emerging and established playwrights as well as to the (r)evolutions in practices and approaches to the stage that have taken place in the last thirty years. This cross-disciplinary collection devotes as much attention to contextual questions and approaches to the stage in practice as it does to the play text in its traditional and revised forms. The essays and interviews encourage dialectic exchange between analytical studies on contemporary Irish theatre and contributions by theatre practitioners.v>.
Theater --- History. --- Theater. --- Actors. --- Contemporary Theatre. --- Performers and Practitioners. --- National/Regional Theatre and Performance. --- Theatre Industry. --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors
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A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either.Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it...Read more at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56513/swing-time/#AjB1eTU5u7rDMBxM.99
Women, Black --- Female friendship --- Dancers --- Artists --- Entertainers --- London (England) --- Africa, West --- Engels --- Romans --- Identiteit --- Vriendschap --- Vrouwen --- Dans --- Muziek --- Zwarten --- Verenigde Staten --- Roman --- Vrouw --- Zwarte mensen --- Afrika --- Compositie (muziek) --- Kunst --- Ondernemerschap --- Poëzie
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