Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Saving Black Colleges
Leading Change in a Complex Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Saving Black Colleges makes clear the challenges, opportunities, and prospects for change historically black colleges and universities now face. Schexnider, the former chancellor of Winston-Salem State University, details what he could and could not accomplish, examines how these issues affect other...
Inclusive Innovation for Sustainable Development
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Employing a three-dimensional approach, this book discusses inclusive innovation for socio-economic growth and development, and the implications for human security within the context of developing and emerging economies. Focusing on a new and innovative area of research, Inclusive Innovation for Sustainable...
Critical Race Theory and Copyright in American Dance
Whiteness as Status Property
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The effort to win federal protection for dance in the United States was a racialized and gendered contest. Picart traces the evolution of choreographic works from being federally non-copyrightable to becoming a category potentially copyrightable under the 1976 Copyright Act, specifically examining Loíe Fuller, George Balanchine, and Martha Graham.
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners
Three English Women Who Used Arsenic to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children, their husbands and brothers. Using newspapers, archival sources (including petitions and witness depositions), and records from parliamentary...
Soul Thieves
The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony.
Contemporary Film Music
Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The purpose of this book, through its very creation, is to strengthen the dialogue between practitioner and theorist. To that end, a film academic and musicologist have collaborated as editors on this book, which is in turn comprised of interviews with composers alongside complementary chapters that...
by S. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected concept of the soul and to trace its changing fortunes. The Soul of Film Theory charts the legacy of this multi-faceted, contested term, from the classical to the contemporary era.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This collection engages with questions of influence, a vexed and problematic concept whose intellectual history is both ancient and vast. It examines a range of texts written in French, sometimes in dialogue with visual/musical works, drawn mainly from the eighteenth century onwards. Connections are made with related work in a range of disciplines.
Dancing Genius
The Stardom of Vaslav Nijinsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Tracing the historical figure of Vaslav Nijinsky in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, Dancing Genius opens up questions about authorship in dance, about critical evaluation of performance practice, and the manner in which past events are turned into history.
On Voice in Poetry
The Work of Animation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself.
by E. Upton
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.
Fandom, Image and Authenticity
Joy Devotion and the Second Lives of Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Through death, they became icons. However, the lead singers have been removed from their humanity, replaced by easily replicated and distributed commodities bearing their image. This book examines how the anglicised singers provide secular guidance to the modern consumer in an ever more uncertain world.
Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror
'Whatever it Takes'
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Using a performance studies lens, this book is a study of performance in the post-9/11 context of the so-called war on terror. It analyzes conventional theatre, political protest, performance art and other sites of performance to unpack the ways in which meaning has been made in the contemporary global sociopolitical environment.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Vibratory Modernism is a collection of original essays that show how vibrations provide a means of bridging science and art - two fields that became increasingly separate in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.