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Paperback. This new study ofBritishpopular music shows how it engages with class in mythical ways that allow audiences to perform class-based identities.Case studies on folk rock, punk and indie rock show how this performance works and explore the implications for listeners and audiences." Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; AV; HBJD1; JFC; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349304950
ISBN
9781349304950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.39

Paperback. Asking whether a genuinely shared European memory is possible while addressing the dangers of a single, homogenized European memory, Gluhovic examines the contradictions, specificities, continuities and discontinuities in the European shared and unshared pasts as represented in the works of Pinter, Tadeusz Kantor, Heiner Muller and Artur Zmijewski. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DS; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334308
ISBN
9781349334308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.21

paperback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AS; HBAH; HBTB; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2014
SKU
V9781349463381
ISBN
9781349463381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349529933
ISBN
9781349529933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Hardcover. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG; DSK; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 483.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403967190
ISBN
9781403967190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.49

paperback. "Performing Magic on the Western Stage" examines magic as a performing art and meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality. Editor(s): Hass, Lawrence; Coppa, Francesca; Peck, James. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 253 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; DS; HBJK; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349374649
ISBN
9781349374649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.43

hardcover. The first full-length, interdisciplinary study of the Greek performing arts - theatre, rhetoric and ritual - between antiquity and the Renaissance. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 b/w illus. 4 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1QDAZ; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC8; HRCR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 616.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107073852
ISBN
9781107073852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.41

Paperback. A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism's encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through nationalism became a means of intercultural communication and cultural diplomacy." Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASD; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349309597
ISBN
9781349309597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 112.33

Hardback. Building on the eighteenth-century commonplace that the theater could be a school for public virtue, this book illustrates the connections between the popularity of theatrical performances in eighteenth-century British North America and the British and American national identities that colonial and Revolutionary Americans espoused. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; AN; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812240245
ISBN
9780812240245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.79

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 286 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 1KJH; 3JJ; AN; HBJK; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137592101
ISBN
9781137592101
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.02

Paperback. Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of voices investigates the publics hailed by religious performances and the challenges they offer to theories of the democratic public sphere. Editor(s): Chambers, Claire; Du Toit, Simon; Edelman, Joshua. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASD; HBTB; HRAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 389.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349464067
ISBN
9781349464067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.69

Paperback. This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe are enacted. Editor(s): Fricker, Karen; Gluhovic, Milija. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AV; DS; HBJD; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349335596
ISBN
9781349335596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 143.24

Hardcover. EPUB Editor(s): Fricker, Karen; Gluhovic, Milija. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVGP; HBJD; JFCA; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230299924
ISBN
9780230299924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.10

Paperback. How can court testimony be used to rebuild a cohesive national identity for the Hutus and Tutsis? And how is it that dance and theater help to move forward the cause of justice and reconciliation? This title provides a satisfying analysis of the interplay between justice, performance, narrative, and memorialization. Num Pages: 264 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; AN; HBTZ; LNAA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 231 x 11. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857421081
ISBN
9780857421081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.79

Hardback. Performing the Nation in Interwar Germany argues that political aesthetics and mass spectacles were no invention of the Nazis but characterized the period from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. In so doing, it re-examines the role of state representation and propaganda in the Weimar Republic and the Nazi dictatorship. Num Pages: 239 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230217935
ISBN
9780230217935
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

Paperback. Special EURO 10,- discount for our ABG readers: now EURO 24,50 instead of EURO 34,50 Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in op Num Pages: 368 pages, 49 black and white 19 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 630.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9789089642059
ISBN
9789089642059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.87

Paperback. This book is about the role of the Easter rituals in the Yaqui way of life in both Arizona and Sonora. It contains detailed ethnographic descriptions of these ceremonies. Num Pages: 624 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; 1KLCM; HBTB; HRCR; HRKT; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 33. Weight in Grams: 821.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761805793
ISBN
9780761805793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 131.90

Hardback. Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will take an interest in this provocative work. Series: Early America: History, Context, Culture. Num Pages: 328 pages, 22, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421413389
ISBN
9781421413389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.01
€ 50.93

Hardback. This book provides an insightful new study, drawn from the largely unpublished Buddhist paintings at Dunhuang, of medieval Chinese wall painting, workshop production, and artistic performance in theory and practice. Num Pages: 400 pages, 4 tables, 155 illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FC; 1FPC; AFC; AGR; HBT; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 29. Weight in Grams: 975.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804745338
ISBN
9780804745338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.87

hardcover. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521116459
ISBN
9780521116459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.37

Paperback. Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. This work presents accounts of those close to Pericles, including Thucydides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Protagoras, Sophocles, Lysias, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBLA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 282. A Sourcebook and Reader. 248 pages, illustrations. Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. This work presents accounts of those close to Pericles, including Thucydides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Protagoras, Sophocles, Lysias, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBLA; JPA. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 15. Weight: 282.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520256040
ISBN
9780520256040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.68

Hardcover. 176pp. Index. Keywords: US history, economics, policy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Harpercollins
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Edition
Trade ed.
SKU
KHS1011759
ISBN
9780060163365
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 15.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Taking into account wars waged by virtually all civilizations since the beginning of recorded history, the author finds that despite enormous cultural differences, war was conducted in distinctly similar ways right up to the Military Revolution and the pursuit of technological warfare in the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 456 pages, 28 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QFH; HBW; JWA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 35. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300197174
ISBN
9780300197174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. Firmly based on the insight that memory is always mediated and that the past is not a stable object, this title demonstrates that we can intervene positively yet critically in the recovery and reinterpretation of events and experiences that have been pushed to the peripheries of the past. Editor(s): Fujitani, T.; White, Geoffrey M.; Yoneyama, Lisa. Num Pages: 472 pages, 38 b&w photographs, 3 tables, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1QSP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822325642
ISBN
9780822325642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.49

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