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…

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 connec…

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 dissemina…

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 ar…

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 …

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. …

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 o…

Sonic modernities in the Malay world : a history of popular music, social dis…

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9789004261778

Collation

338 p.; 22 cm.

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Call Number

781.63 SON 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 art…

Before the museums came : a social history of the fine arts in the Twin Cities

Before the Museums Came: A Social History of the Fine Arts in the Twin Cities gives an engaging portrayal of the fine arts scene of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota in the United States, spannin…