An exploration of traditional performances in the Eastern Mediterranean in the medieval and Early Modern periods. This book brings to life an impressively broad array of performances in the Eastern Mediterranean. It covers many traditional types of performance, including singers…
La culture contemporaine a connu une métamorphose et plus rien, semble-t-il, ne résiste à cette dénaturation, voire à cet effacement de sa valeur. La banalisation des arts et des lettres, le triomphe de la presse people et la frivolité des politiques sont, pour Mario Vargas Llos…
The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World updates Donald G. Kyle's award-winning introduction to this topic, covering the Ancient Near East up to the late Roman Empire. * Challenges traditional scholarship on sport and spectacle in the Ancient World and debu…
La 4e de couv. porte : "Historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson explicates how black musical…
Introduction : Jayaganesh and the avant-garde -- Playing -- The street is the stage -- Waehma : space, time, identity, and theater at New Pascua, Arizona -- Striding through the cosmos : movement, belief, politics, and place in the Ramlila of Ramnagar -- Wayang kulit in the colo…
4e de couv.: During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the East Bloc was a near impossible act. There remained, however, possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time away from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life. The essa…
