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Curating contemporary music Festivals : a new perspective on music's mediation
Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of »curators« laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists - but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a …
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- 9783839452431
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- 326 p.
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- Musik und Klangkultur, 47
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- 780.7 FAR c
All Culture is local : good practice in regional cultural mapping and plannin…
This book is an outcome from a five year Australian Research Council funded research project, CAMRA cultural asset mapping in regional Australia project (LP0882238). Over this time four universities, four local governments, and peak regional, state and federal agencies sought to develop knowledge that would enable better informed planning for arts and cultural development in rural and regional …
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- 9781863654333
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- 120 p.; 22 cm.
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- 720 ALL a
Sung tales from the Papua New Guinea highlands studies in form, meaning, and …
The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued art form. From a comparative viewpoint they are remarkable both for their scale and complexity, and for the range of variation that is found among regional genres and indivi…
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- 9781921862212
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- 330 p.; 22 cm.
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- 781.629912 SUN s
Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions
This volume draws together essays by leading art experts observing the dramatic developments in Asian art and exhibitions in the last two decades. The authors explore new regional and global connections and new ways of understanding contemporary Asian art in the twenty-first century.
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- 9781925021998
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- 709.5 TUR c
Drawing on the Victorians : the palimpsest of Victorian and neo-Victorian gra…
Late 19th-century Britain experienced an explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are p…
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- 9780821445877
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- XIV, 382 p.
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- 700.94109034 DRA d
Disruption in the arts : textual, visual, and perfomative strategies for anal…
The volume examines from a comparative perspective the phenomenon of aesthetic disruption within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of contemporary art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content, but rather from creating a space of perception and interaction using formal means: a space that makes hegemonic str…
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- 9783110580082
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- XVI, 382 p.
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- Culture & Conflict, 11
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- 700.103 DIS d
The structures of the film experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier : historical ass…
For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier's influential thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier's intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator's engagement with fiction films, documentaries and home movies can reach the wide audience they have deserved…
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- 9789048537846
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- 354 p.
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- 791.43019 STR s
Behind the scenes: the politics of planning Adelaide
Behind the Scenes examines planning in the City of Adelaide from 1972 until 1993 within the historical framework of City/State relations from 1836 when the Province of South Australia was founded. During this 21-year period, the City had its own planning and development control legislation separate from the rest of the State. Dr Llewellyn-Smith examines why this situation came about, why it con…
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- 9781922064417
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- 711.40994231 LLE b
Soundscapes of the urban past: staged sound as mediated cultural heritage
We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such 'staged sounds' express the changing identities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays and films, and offers insights into themes such a…
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- 9783837621792
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- 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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- Sound studies ; v. 5
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- 781 SOU s
Instruments for new music : sound, technology, and modernism
Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film—these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music …
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- 9780520963122
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- XII, 236 p.
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- 784.190904 PPAT i
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