The Arts

A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolinas Bayard Wootten (18751959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the states most significant early female photographer.

The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else in America.

In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston MannDJ, media law expert, and ethnographeridentifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood.

The story of the Santee is, in fact, the story of a major part of the Carolinas east of the Appalachians, for the river drains an immense area of both states from the mountains to the ocean.

Aloha is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon.

What is dance, as seen from a philosopher's point of view?

This book is a translation and study of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra and an examination of its broad implications for the development of East Asian Buddhism.

The twenty contributors to this volume offer a new perspective on the relationship between Blake's poetry and his visionary forms.

As with many performing arts in Asia, neither the highly stylized images of the Javanese shadow play nor its musical complexity detracts from its wide popularity.

Here are over 1,000 pages of authoritative information on the archaeology of Greek and Roman civilization.

Each of the 179 pictures in this handsome book is accompanied by indications of source and date, and often by explanatory and reference material.

These three essays were inspired by the Samothracian discoveries.

A collection of autobiographical, fantastical and odd essays, short stories and columns, it's rites of passage narrative is unsettling, upsetting, darkly humorous and oddly uplifting, and charts a deeply personal course that, at times, it's audience will be intimately familiar with and instantly able to relate to.

The wild innovations of the early twentieth-century avant-garde have been widely celebrated for their influence on the course of experimental drama but rarely examined closely and systematically.

In this study of Giovanni Bellini's great masterpiece, the so-called Frick St.

Theatre activities ask adolescents to empathize with those who are different from themselves.

Plays by Early American Women: 1775-1850 provides a comprehensive view of American women's engagement with drama.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 2,3, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Veranstaltung: Filmanalyse, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Leviathan ist ein im Jahr 2014 erschienenes russisches Filmdrama des Regisseurs Andrei Zvyagintsev.

A definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanismIt has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another-or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure.

Analyzing "e;totalitarianism from below"e; in a crucial area of Soviet culture, Hugh Hudson shows how Stalinist forces within the architectural community destroyed an avant-garde movement of urban planners and architects, who attempted to create a more humane built environment for the Soviet people.

The WPA Theatre Project-conceived as a relief measure, a work program, and an artistic experiment-enjoyed a brief but lively existence.

Was there a continuity between the "e;vigorous art and the seminal science"e; of the seventeenth century?

This definitive study takes as its subject a group of melodies copied many times, even within single manuscripts.

This is a systematic study of the conceptual framework used by critics and scholars in their discussions of influence in art and literature.

This book is a substantial and thorough musicological analysis of Turkish folk music.

In this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years.

Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges.

Rethinking the Psychology of Place presents a new approach to Professor David Canter's 1977 Psychology of Place.

"e;Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera,"e; writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre.

Through her study of the narrative themes and strategies of Italian commercial sound films of the fascist era, Marcia Landy shows that cultural life under fascism was not monopolized by official propaganda.

This classic in film theory, presents a systematic study of the techniques of the film medium and of their potential uses for creating formal structures in individual films such as Dovzhenko's Earth, Antonioni's La Notte, Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Renoir's Nana, and Godard's Pierrot le Fou.

In this celebration of Milton Babbitt's art, Andrew Mead explores the development of a central figure in contemporary American music.

As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this century's darling of "e;divine decadence"e;--a measure of how much we are attracted by the fiction of the "e;shocking"e; British/American vamp in Weimar Berlin.

From rare books, valuable sculpture and paintings, the relics of saints, and porcelain and other precious items, through stamps, textiles, military ribbons, and shells, to baseball cards, teddy bears, and mugs, an amazing variety of objects have engaged and even obsessed collectors through the ages.

"e;Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter,"e; writes Eva Stehle, "e;but shared in the present mirth and laughter of festival, ceremony, and party.

Who "e;speaks"e; to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony?

Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha ch.

In this ethnography of Navajo (Din) popular music culture, Kristina M.

This work is a cantata for chorus and orchestra, with baritone solo, celebrating the pioneers who settled the American wilderness.

Who are we, and where do we come from?

This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a postcivil rights generation.

Red wolves are shy, elusive, and misunderstood predators.

In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Elizabeth B.

When Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he dreamed of inspiring a race of singers who would celebrate the working class and realize the promise of American democracy.

Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists.

In this book, Hertha D.

In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the worlds most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players.

Jean Anderson’s new cookbook deliciously brings together two of her lifelong passions—great food and North Carolina pottery.

In this book, David MacDougall, one of the leading ethnographic filmmakers and film scholars of his generation, builds upon the ideas from his widely praised Transcultural Cinema and argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words.