Tag: Staging

Yiddish Paris Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France


Free Download Nick Underwood, "Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France "
English | ISBN: 0253059798 | 2022 | 266 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Yiddish Paris explores how Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s created a Yiddish diaspora nation in Western Europe and how they presented that nation to themselves and to others in France.

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The Passions of Peter Sellars Staging the Music


Free Download Susan McClary, "The Passions of Peter Sellars: Staging the Music"
English | ISBN: 0472131222 | 2019 | 226 pages | EPUB, PDF | 846 KB + 1067 KB
Recognized as one of the most innovative and influential directors of our time, Peter Sellars has produced acclaimed-and often controversial-versions of many beloved operas and oratorios. He has also collaborated with several composers, including John C. Adams and Kaija Saariaho, to create challenging new operas. The Passions of Peter Sellars follows the development of his style, beginning with his interpretations of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas, proceeding to works for which he assembled the libretti and even the music, and concluding with his celebrated stagings of Bach’s passions with the Berlin Philharmonic.

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Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948


Shoshana Sitton, Yaacov Shavit, Chaya Naor, "Staging and Stagers in Modern Jewish Palestine: The Creation of Festive Lore in a New Culture, 1882-1948"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0814328458 | PDF | pages: 224 | 5.5 mb
This fascinating case study describes the work of the people responsible for creating festive lore and its system of ceremonies and festivities-an inseparable part of every culture. In the case of the new modern Hebrew culture of Eretz Israel (modern Jewish Palestine)-a society of immigrants that left behind most of their traditional folkways-the creation of festival lore was a conscious and organized process guided by a national ideology and aesthetic values. This creative effort in a secular national society served as an alternative to the traditional religious system, adapted the ceremonies and festivals to a new historical reality, and created a new festival cycle that would give expression and joy to the values and symbols of the new Jewish society.

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Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe


Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe By Andrew D. McCarthy (editor), Verena Theile (editor)
2013 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 1409440087 | PDF | 4 MB
Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early modern European superstitions and English stage literature. Contributors analyze the cultural mechanisms that shape, preserve, and transmit beliefs. They investigate where superstitions come from and how they are sustained and communicated within early modern European society. It has been proposed by scholars that once enacted on stage and thus brought into contact with the literary-dramatic perspective, belief systems that had been preserved and reinforced by historical-literary texts underwent a drastic change. By highlighting the connection between historical-literary and literary-dramatic culture, this volume tests and explores the theory that performance of superstitions opened the way to disbelief.

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Staging Citizenship Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania


Staging Citizenship: Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania By Ioana Szeman
2017 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 1785337300 | PDF | 4 MB
Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union’s most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on "performance" broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter’s settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances, media representations, activism, and interactions with both non-governmental organizations and state agencies, author Ioana Szeman grounds broad themes of political economy, citizenship, resistance, and neoliberalism in her subjects’ remarkably varied lives and experiences.

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The Sensible Stage Staging and the Moving Image


The Sensible Stage: Staging and the Moving Image By Bridget Crone (editor)
2017 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 1783207698 | PDF | 37 MB
Exploring the use of live performance and the moving image in contemporary art practice, The Sensible Stage brings together essays that examine how elements from theater and cinema are integrated into art, often in order to question the boundaries and mediations between the body and the image. Opening with a discussion between prominent philosopher Alain Badiou and Elie During, this book offers a unique mixture of theoretical, creative, and discursive reflections on the meeting of stage and screen. This revised and expanded edition includes two new chapters that offer an updated look at how these ideas continue to develop in contemporary art practice.

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