Dance on. Martha Myers

Subjects: Full text (MCPHS users only)

Performative body spaces : corporeal topographies in literature, theatre, dance, and the visual arts /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: performative body spaces / Markus Hallensleben -- Metaphors of dancing and the human body in Nazi concentration camps / Bożena Karwowska -- From dance under the swastika to movement education: a study of embodied culture / Patricia Vertinsky -- Political body spaces in the performances of William Forsythe / Gabriele Brandstetter -- Reading skin signs: decoding skin as the fluid boundary between self and other in Yoko Tawada / Jeremy Redlich -- The body in space: layers of gender in Japanese classical dance / Colleen Lanki -- Counter-narrativity and corporeality in Kishida Rio's Ito Jigoku / Yasuko Ikeuchi -- The absence of voices in the theatre space: Ku Nauka's production of Medea / Eiichiro Hirata -- Staging culture- staging nature: Polynesian performance as nature and nature as performance in Hawaii / Sabine Wilke -- Moving through fashion in nineteenth-century France / Sima Godfrey -- Reading bodies: female secrecy and sexuality in the works of Renoir and Degas / Kathryn Brown -- Corporeal topographiess of the image zone: from Oskar Kokoschka's murder of metaphor to Georges Bataille's acéphale / Rainer Rumold -- Somatechnics and makeover reality TV: the symbiotic viewer/participant relationship / Beth Pentney -- The body as object: from body image to meta-body / Robert Pritchard -- Touched: organization, control and emergence in choreographed performace systems / Henry Daniel.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Rumba rules : new genealogies

Subjects: Full text (MCPHS users only)

Happy Birthday, Lang Lang!

Table of Contents: Full text (MCPHS users only)

Healing deconstruction : postmodern thought in Buddhism and Christianity

Table of Contents: Full text (MCPHS users only)

The Orient in music : music of the Orient

Table of Contents: Full text (MCPHS users only)

Activating the inanimate : visual vocabularies of performance practice

Table of Contents: Full text (MCPHS users only)

African American arts : activism, aesthetics, and futurity

Table of Contents: Full text (MCPHS users only)

African American arts : activism, aesthetics, and futurity

Table of Contents: Full text (MCPHS users only)

Historiae mundi : studies in universal history

Table of Contents: “…. -- Orosius and escaping from the dance of doom / Andrew Fear. -- A rose in the desert? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Embodied aesthetics : proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind, 26th-28th August 2013

Table of Contents: “…The Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Evolutionary Roots of Aesthetics: An Approach-Avoidance Look at Curvature Preference; Chapter 2 A Neuro-Evolutionary Mechanism for Aesthetic Phenomenology; Chapter 3 Interaction of Perception and Imagination in Pictorial Space Experience; Chapter 4 Effortless Bodies and Beyond; Chapter 5 The Dancing Body and the Revelation of Prepersonal Existence through Art; Chapter 6 How to Perceive Oneself Perceiving? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Body and the book : writings on poetry and sexuality

Table of Contents: “…The Body and the Book; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION I: DICHOTOMIES; THE RIVER GOD; SEXUAL WATER: POETRY, DIONYSUS AND THE AQUATIC APE; HUNGER FOR SALT; LOVE STORY; 'WHEN THE HORN FITS, BLOW IT': MUSIC IN EROTIC POETRY; SLOW DANCING: BEACONSFIELD 1973; SINGULARITY; SECTION II: TRADITIONS AND REVISIONS; JUDITH; POETICS OF SACRED DESIRE IN MEDIEVAL HEBREW POETRY; THE BUOYANT MILKMAN; THE TINKER AS AN EROTIC ICON; READING BETWEEN THE LINES; 'THE POEM UPON THE PAGE IS AS MASSIVE AS ANNE'S THIGHS': TEXTUAL PROMISCUITY IN TED BERRIGAN'S THE SONNETS; NOTES FROM A JOURNAL.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Varia folklorica

Table of Contents: “…The Baltic Origin and Developmental Tendencies of Latvian DanceTransformations of Chivalrous Literature in the Subject Matter of the Sicilian Marionette Theater -- Folklore Research in India -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Presentations of the 29th Annual SW/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association : gender

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; MARKETING THE NFL (NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE) TO WOMEN; "DANCING AIN'T SISSY STUFF"; AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT "REINVENTED"; IT TAKES ONE WOMAN TO CHANGE A VILLAGE; THE INCREDIBLY QUEER ADVENTURES OF HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH; THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE REALLY UGLY; (IN)FERTILE GROUND; QUIET REVENGE; MAINSTREAM RAUNCH, BIOPOLITICS AND CONTROL; ASSEMBLED VIRGIN/HIDDEN VENUS -MODERN WOMEN IN WILLA CATHER'S MY ANTONIA; DEVELOPING GENDER; A SWORD OF ONE'S OWN; ANIME MEETS MIDDLE EARTH; VICTIM TURNED VILLAIN; MOMMY IS A BRIDE WITH A HANZO SWORD.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Consciousness, theatre, literature and the arts 2015

Full text (MCPHS users only)

American Klezmer : its roots and offshoots

Table of Contents: “…Rothstein -- Di Rushishe progresiv Muzikal Yunyoun No. 1 fun Americke : the first Klezemer Union in America / James Leoffler -- The Klezmer in Jewish Philadelphia, 1915-70 / Hankus Netsky -- "All my life a musician": Ben Bazyler, a European Klezmer in America / Michael Alpert -- Bulgărescă, Bulgarish, Bulgar: the transformation of the Klezmer dance genre / Walter Zec Feldman -- Sounds and sensibility / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- KlezKamp and the rise of Yiddish cultural literacy / Henry Sapoznik -- Newish, not Jewish: a tale of two bands / Marion Jacobson -- An insider's view: how we traveled from obscurity to the Klezmer establishment in twenty years / Frank London -- Why we do this anyway: Klezmer as Jewish youth subculture / Alicia Svigals.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

American Klezmer : its roots and offshoots

Table of Contents: “…Rothstein -- Di Rushishe progresiv Muzikal Yunyoun No. 1 fun Americke : the first Klezemer Union in America / James Leoffler -- The Klezmer in Jewish Philadelphia, 1915-70 / Hankus Netsky -- "All my life a musician": Ben Bazyler, a European Klezmer in America / Michael Alpert -- Bulgărescă, Bulgarish, Bulgar: the transformation of the Klezmer dance genre / Walter Zec Feldman -- Sounds and sensibility / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- KlezKamp and the rise of Yiddish cultural literacy / Henry Sapoznik -- Newish, not Jewish: a tale of two bands / Marion Jacobson -- An insider's view: how we traveled from obscurity to the Klezmer establishment in twenty years / Frank London -- Why we do this anyway: Klezmer as Jewish youth subculture / Alicia Svigals.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Experience forms : their cultural and individual place and function

Table of Contents: “…Moss -- Comments concerning the interpretation and role of myths and fairy tales / by Julius E. Heuscher -- Dance as nonverbal communication / by Laura B. DeLind -- Interrelationships of individual, cultural, and pan-human values / by C.R. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Antarctica - music, sounds and cultural connections by Hince, Bernadette, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Mentions of music in the Antarctic diaries of Cecil T Madigan1Body of ice: The movement of Antarctic ice through dance; The poetry of Antarctic sound and the sound of Antarctic poetry; Playing Antarctica: Making music with natural objects and sounds from the Antarctic Peninsula; And I may be some time ... ; The nature of sound and the sound of Nature; Kiwis on ice: Defining the ways in which the New Zealand identity is reflected in the Antarctic-inspired works of four New Zealand composers; Antarctica: 'Surround Sound'; Frozen voices: Women, silence and Antarctica.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Translation and the arts in modern France

Table of Contents: “…Self-translation -- 10. The Mummy's dance : staged transpositions of Gautier's Egyptian tales / Juliana Starr -- 11. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Translation and the arts in modern France

Table of Contents: “…Self-translation -- 10. The Mummy's dance : staged transpositions of Gautier's Egyptian tales / Juliana Starr -- 11. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Caribbean without borders : beyond the can(n)on's range

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' Note -- Chapter One -- You Reap what you Sow -- Damaged Identity in Jean-Robert Cadet's Restavec -- Revisiting the Past in Martin Carter's The University of Hunger -- Identity and Culture in Sam Selvon's Lonely Londoners -- The Women of Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance -- Chapter Two -- Queerengue -- Repiques y Piquetes -- "Bacchanal is We Ting" -- Language and Identity -- Isla Grande -- Isla Pequeña -- Aspectos Sociológicos Sobre la Narco-cultura y los Ritos Funerarios en Puerto Rico -- Chapter Three -- Modern Man and the Shamanic Journey -- Unpoliticized Beauty -- El Sueño Como Mito Fundacional en Litoral -- Entre el Antagonismo y la Comunicabilidad -- Individualismo y Opresión -- Entre el Amor y el Baile de la Sangre -- Chapter Four -- Bilingual Literature -- Is There a Place in the Fields of Linguistics and Creolistics for Intuitive and Spiritual Knowledge? …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa : Festival Africolor

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Strata-East All Stars : live at Banlieues Bleues

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its times = Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its times = Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Virginia Woolf and her female contemporaries : selected papers from the twenty-fifth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf

Table of Contents: “…., Virginia Woolf, and the Radical Ethics of Writing as Marine Practice -- A Carnival of the Grotesque: Feminine Imperial Flânerie in Virginia Woolf's "Street Haunting" and Una Marson's "Little Brown Girl" -- Mad Women: Dance, Female Sexuality, and Surveillance in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Emily Holmes Coleman -- Shop My Closet: Virginia Woolf, Marianne Moore, and Fashion Contemporaries -- Virginia Woolf and Victoria Ocampo: A Brazilian Perspective -- Making Waves in Lonely Parallel: Evelyn Scott and Virginia Woolf.…”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Women leading education across the continents. Finding and harnessing the joy in leadership

Table of Contents: “…Women's leadership experiences -- Overview: Experiences of Women in Educational Leadership -- Dancing Into the Unknown: Learning Leadership -- Know Thyself: The Influence of Career Orientations on Women Education Leaders' Career Decisions -- Women Leading for Social Justice in Higher Education: Surfacing Hope in Challenging Times -- Minority Women Leaders in Higher Education -- Section 4. …”
Full text (MCPHS users only)

Bitori : on tour

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Vaudou Game : live at Blues sur Seine

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Making senses of the past : toward a sensory archaeology

Full text (MCPHS users only)

Making senses of the past : toward a sensory archaeology

Full text (MCPHS users only)