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The enchanted years of the stage Kansas City at the crossroads of American theater, 1870-1930 / by Londré, Felicia Hardison, 1941-

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The enchanted years of the stage Kansas City at the crossroads of American theater, 1870-1930 / by Londré, Felicia Hardison, 1941-

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A dictionary for the modern flutist by Maclagan, Susan J., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The dictionary (p. 1-205) -- Appendix 1, Various flute classifications -- Appendix 2, One-keyed, two-keyed, and simple-system flutes -- Appendix 3, One-keyed, two-keyed, and simple-system flute parts -- Appendix 4, Flute clutches / David Shorey -- Appendix 5, Parts from older or modified Boehm flutes -- Appendix 6, The family of Boehm-system flutes -- Appendix 7, Basic modern flute parts -- Appendix 8, Boehm flute key and tone hole names -- Appendix 9, Common modern flute options -- Appendix 10, Some modern head joint options -- Appendix 11, An easy guide to checking your flute tuning and scale / Trevor Wye -- Appendix 12, Tools of the trade -- Appendix 13, Anatomy of the human head, neck, and mouth -- Appendix 14, Orchestra and opera audition excerpts.…”
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A dictionary for the modern flutist by Maclagan, Susan J., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The dictionary (p. 1-205) -- Appendix 1, Various flute classifications -- Appendix 2, One-keyed, two-keyed, and simple-system flutes -- Appendix 3, One-keyed, two-keyed, and simple-system flute parts -- Appendix 4, Flute clutches / David Shorey -- Appendix 5, Parts from older or modified Boehm flutes -- Appendix 6, The family of Boehm-system flutes -- Appendix 7, Basic modern flute parts -- Appendix 8, Boehm flute key and tone hole names -- Appendix 9, Common modern flute options -- Appendix 10, Some modern head joint options -- Appendix 11, An easy guide to checking your flute tuning and scale / Trevor Wye -- Appendix 12, Tools of the trade -- Appendix 13, Anatomy of the human head, neck, and mouth -- Appendix 14, Orchestra and opera audition excerpts.…”
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Radio active advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947 / by Newman, Kathy M. (Kathy Michelle), 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Average Man": the CIO boycott of Philco -- Radio and Boake Carter -- Washboard weepers: women writers, women listeners and the debate over soap operas -- "I won't buy you anything but love, baby": NBC, Donald Montgomery, and the post-war consumer revolt -- Conclusion: high-class hucksters: the rise and fall of a radio republic.…”
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Radio active advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947 / by Newman, Kathy M. (Kathy Michelle), 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Average Man": the CIO boycott of Philco -- Radio and Boake Carter -- Washboard weepers: women writers, women listeners and the debate over soap operas -- "I won't buy you anything but love, baby": NBC, Donald Montgomery, and the post-war consumer revolt -- Conclusion: high-class hucksters: the rise and fall of a radio republic.…”
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Women's work making dance in Europe before 1800 /

Table of Contents: “…The doubly invisible: Dance in history, women in dance history / Lynn Matluck Brooks -- Isabella and the dancing Este brides, 1473-1514 / Barbara Sparti -- Fabritio Caroso's patronesses / Angene Feves -- At the Queen's command : Henrietta Maria and the development of the English masque / Anne Daye -- The female ballet troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 / Nathalie Lecomte -- Françoise Prévost : the unauthorized biography / Régine Astier -- The shaping of Galatea : who controlled the career of Marie Sallé? …”
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Women's work making dance in Europe before 1800 /

Table of Contents: “…The doubly invisible: Dance in history, women in dance history / Lynn Matluck Brooks -- Isabella and the dancing Este brides, 1473-1514 / Barbara Sparti -- Fabritio Caroso's patronesses / Angene Feves -- At the Queen's command : Henrietta Maria and the development of the English masque / Anne Daye -- The female ballet troupe of the Paris Opera from 1700 to 1725 / Nathalie Lecomte -- Françoise Prévost : the unauthorized biography / Régine Astier -- The shaping of Galatea : who controlled the career of Marie Sallé? …”
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Art, myth, and society in Hegel's aesthetics by James, David, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The symbolic form of art -- Kant's theory of the mathematical sublime and the boundlessness of the symbolic form of art -- The classical sublimity of Judaism -- The classical form of art -- The original epic -- The ideal -- The transition to the revealed religion and the romantic form of art -- The revealed religion -- Representational thought and the romantic form of art -- Traces of left-hegelianism in Hegel's lectures on aesthetics -- The end of mythology -- The significance of Kierkegaard's interpretation of Don Giovanni in relation to Hegel's theory of the end of art -- The end of art -- The opera as a modern art form -- Hegel and Lukács's on the possibility of a modern epic -- The problem of a modern epic -- The modern epic and history -- Civil society as the background to the modern epic -- Myth and society : a common theme in the thought of Hegel and Sorel -- Sorel's myth of the general strike -- Myth and modern ethical life.…”
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The golden age of Indianapolis theaters by Caldwell, Howard, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Birth of a theater buff -- Theater one and what happened before -- A war's effect and another theater is born -- Theater count briefly jumps to three -- English's opera house and its impact -- The 1890s and its seeds of change -- Theater enhancement and the gentle intrusion of moving pictures -- English's and The Grand lead the growing theater parade -- The Shuberts come to town as the theater competition grows -- City's first movie palace enhances respectability of going to the movies -- The 1920s and the birth of new challenges -- The silent film era's finale -- Sound moves in with a vengeance -- The 1930s and its challenges -- The 1930s and its challenges II -- The rest of the 1930s survivors -- The 1940s, a decade of success and sadness -- The 1950s bring changes and new competition -- A brief look at what happened next.…”
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Art, myth, and society in Hegel's aesthetics by James, David, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The symbolic form of art -- Kant's theory of the mathematical sublime and the boundlessness of the symbolic form of art -- The classical sublimity of Judaism -- The classical form of art -- The original epic -- The ideal -- The transition to the revealed religion and the romantic form of art -- The revealed religion -- Representational thought and the romantic form of art -- Traces of left-hegelianism in Hegel's lectures on aesthetics -- The end of mythology -- The significance of Kierkegaard's interpretation of Don Giovanni in relation to Hegel's theory of the end of art -- The end of art -- The opera as a modern art form -- Hegel and Lukács's on the possibility of a modern epic -- The problem of a modern epic -- The modern epic and history -- Civil society as the background to the modern epic -- Myth and society : a common theme in the thought of Hegel and Sorel -- Sorel's myth of the general strike -- Myth and modern ethical life.…”
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The golden age of Indianapolis theaters by Caldwell, Howard, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Birth of a theater buff -- Theater one and what happened before -- A war's effect and another theater is born -- Theater count briefly jumps to three -- English's opera house and its impact -- The 1890s and its seeds of change -- Theater enhancement and the gentle intrusion of moving pictures -- English's and The Grand lead the growing theater parade -- The Shuberts come to town as the theater competition grows -- City's first movie palace enhances respectability of going to the movies -- The 1920s and the birth of new challenges -- The silent film era's finale -- Sound moves in with a vengeance -- The 1930s and its challenges -- The 1930s and its challenges II -- The rest of the 1930s survivors -- The 1940s, a decade of success and sadness -- The 1950s bring changes and new competition -- A brief look at what happened next.…”
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Screen Genealogies : From Optical Device to Environmental Medium /

Table of Contents: “…Primal screens / Francesco Casetti -- 'Schutz und Schirm' : screening in German during early modern times / Rudiger Campe -- Face and screen : toward a genealogy of the media façade / Craig Buckley -- Sensing screens : from surface to situation / Nanna Verhoeff -- 'Taking the plunge' : the new immersive screens / Ariel Rogers -- The atmospheric screen : Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin / Antonio Somaini -- The fog medium : visualizing and engineering the atmosphere / Yuriko Furuhata -- The charge of a light barricade : optics and ballistics in the ambiguous being of screens / John Durham Peters -- Flat Bayreuth : a genealogy of opera as screened / Gundula Kreuzer -- Imaginary screens : the hyppnotic gesture and early film / Ruggero Eugeni -- Material. …”
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Screen Genealogies : From Optical Device to Environmental Medium /

Table of Contents: “…Primal screens / Francesco Casetti -- 'Schutz und Schirm' : screening in German during early modern times / Rudiger Campe -- Face and screen : toward a genealogy of the media façade / Craig Buckley -- Sensing screens : from surface to situation / Nanna Verhoeff -- 'Taking the plunge' : the new immersive screens / Ariel Rogers -- The atmospheric screen : Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin / Antonio Somaini -- The fog medium : visualizing and engineering the atmosphere / Yuriko Furuhata -- The charge of a light barricade : optics and ballistics in the ambiguous being of screens / John Durham Peters -- Flat Bayreuth : a genealogy of opera as screened / Gundula Kreuzer -- Imaginary screens : the hyppnotic gesture and early film / Ruggero Eugeni -- Material. …”
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The anatomy of Harpo Marx by Koestenbaum, Wayne

Table of Contents: “…The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929) -- Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933) -- The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera -- Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930) -- Later astonishments. …”
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The anatomy of Harpo Marx by Koestenbaum, Wayne

Table of Contents: “…The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929) -- Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933) -- The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera -- Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930) -- Later astonishments. …”
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Go figure! New directions in advertising rhetoric

Table of Contents: “…DeRosia -- Rhetrickery and rhetruth in soap operas / Barbara B. Stern -- What the symbol can't, the icon can / Val Larsen -- A model of the cognitive and emotional processing of rhetorical works in advertising / Bruce A. …”
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Egypt's culture wars politics and practice / by Mehrez, Samia

Table of Contents: “…Egyptian literary texts of the 1990s -- From the hara to the imara: emerging urban metaphors in the literary production on contemporary Cairo -- Taking the soap out of the opera: the case of Hagg Mitwalli's family -- The new kid on the block: Bahibb issima and the emergence of the Coptic community in the Egyptian public sphere -- Found in Cairo: the limits of representation in the visual field -- Literature and literalism: the Al-khubz al-hafi crisis reconsidered.…”
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Egypt's culture wars politics and practice / by Mehrez, Samia

Table of Contents: “…Egyptian literary texts of the 1990s -- From the hara to the imara: emerging urban metaphors in the literary production on contemporary Cairo -- Taking the soap out of the opera: the case of Hagg Mitwalli's family -- The new kid on the block: Bahibb issima and the emergence of the Coptic community in the Egyptian public sphere -- Found in Cairo: the limits of representation in the visual field -- Literature and literalism: the Al-khubz al-hafi crisis reconsidered.…”
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Go figure! New directions in advertising rhetoric

Table of Contents: “…DeRosia -- Rhetrickery and rhetruth in soap operas / Barbara B. Stern -- What the symbol can't, the icon can / Val Larsen -- A model of the cognitive and emotional processing of rhetorical works in advertising / Bruce A. …”
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