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Developing a Sense of Place : The Role of the Arts in Regenerating Communities

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Wicked theory, naked practice A Fred Ho reader / by Ho, Fred Wei-han

Table of Contents: “…; Musical borrowings, exchanges, and fusions : new/experimental genres ; Kreolization and the hybridity of resistance vs. cultural imperialism ; Highlights in the history of "jazz" not covered by Ken Burns : a request from Ishmael Reed ; The damned don't cry : the life and music of Calvin Massey ; How to sell but not sell out : personal lessons from making a career as a subversive and radical performing artist ; Big Red Media, Inc., a composer/musician-driven production company : doing it yourself -- Asian Pacific American cultural theory and criticism. …”
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The courtesan's arts cross-cultural perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Faraone -- The city geisha and their role in modern Japan : anomaly or artistes? / Lesley Downer -- In the service of the nation : geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow country / Miho Matsugu -- Going to the courtesans : transit to the pleasure district of Edo Japan / Timon Screech -- Who's afraid of Giulia Napolitana? …”
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Neurology of music

Table of Contents: “…On the use of metaphors in the history of modern neurology / Frank Stahnisch -- The musician's brain as a model for adaptive and maladaptive plasticity / Eckart Altenmüller -- Temporal co-ordination of the two hands in playing the violin / Mario Wiesendanger -- Music as a calibrator of time : auditory processing / Steve Jones -- Musical reading and writing / John Brust -- Fools at musick : Thomas Willis (1621-1675) on congenital amusia / Marjorie Lorch -- Musicogenic epilepsy / Jock Murray -- Musical hallucinations / Stefan Evers -- Migraine aura as source of artistic inspiration in the German "dark chanteuse" Alwa Glebe ; Musical palinacousis as an aura symptom in persistent aura without infarction / Klaus Podoll -- Coloured-hearing synaesthesia in nineteenth-century Italy / Lorenzo Lorusso, Alessandro Porro -- Crossed wires : synaesthetic responses to music / Ivan Moseley -- The recognition of music in frontotemporal lobar degeneration / Julene K. …”
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Synesthetic design : handbook for a multisensory approach / by Haverkamp, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Holistic design : Cumulation of sensory contributions : Segregation or integration ; Perceptual conflicts -- The choice of customer-effective strategies : Assistance in decisions-making ; Examples of application ; Human-computer interaction -- Elementary forms : Basic forms of perception ; Elementary design -- Visualization of noise and music : Artistic and technical visualization ; Musical notation, graphics, and film -- Perception and emotion -- Future perspectives of synesthetic design : Design with all senses: for the senses ; Robustness ; Sustainability.…”
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Pure act : the uncommon life of Robert Lax / by McGregor, Michael N.

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Animal Acts : Performing Species Today /

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Cold war cultures perspectives on Eastern and Western European societies /

Table of Contents: “…The peace and the war camps : the dichotomous Cold War culture in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1960 / Roman Krakovsky -- Artistic style, canonization, and identity politics in Cold War Germany, 1947-1960 / Joes Segal -- What does democracy look like? …”
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Danse et santé : Du corps intime au corps social /

Table of Contents: “…res""; ""Introduction""; ""Partie 1_La recherche à l'Ãcoute de l'artiste""; ""Chapitre 1_Incorporation paradoxale des normes eshÃtiques et de santà chez les danseurs contemporains""; ""Chapitre 2_Entre corps de passion et corps de travail""; ""Partie 2_Directement du studio""; ""Dynamiques relationnelles entre chorÃgraphes et danseurs contemporains""; ""Chapitre 4_ExpÃrience corporelle des discours de la danse et de l'Ãducation somatique""; ""Chapitre 5_La rÃpartition des relations de pouvoir dans la formation en danse""; ""Partie 3_Perspectives de formation""…”
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The Restless Compendium Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites /

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Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium by Öykü Tekten, Alexander R. Galloway, Benjamin H. Bratton, McKenzie Wark, Ed Keller (ed.), Nicola Masciandaro (ed.), Eugene Thacker (ed.), Zach Blas, Melanie Doherty, Anthony Sciscione, Kate Marshall, Alisa Andrasek, Dan Mellamphy, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Ben Woodard, Lionel Maunz, Reza Negarestani

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Creative and critical projects in classroom music fifty years of sound and silence /

Table of Contents: “…Professor of Music Education, University of Sheffield -- Piers Spencer -- The Open University (retired) -- Ruth Wright -- Professor of Music Education, Western University, Canada -- References -- Part 2 Critical issues in creative music making -- Chapter 2.1 Recontextualising Sound and Silence -- Introduction -- New directions -- Gestation -- Sound and Silence and the child-centred tradition -- 'Savage children' and their 'primitive music' -- Inner worlds and the child as artist -- Expressivism in Sound and Silence -- Dialogues -- Summary and conclusion -- References…”
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The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition /

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Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Katz -- The panorama and the panopticon : deception and the origin of perspective -- Panoramic trompe-l'oeil : c'était tout une vie by François Bon / Catherine Parayre -- Leaving the Island of Cyclops : practicing an "aural" genealogy within the surrealist community of fellowship / Brian Lightbody -- Unveiling the self : disguise and the reconstruction of identity -- Deception of the self in Zamyatin's We / Michael Berman -- Veiling/unveiling in Tahar Ben Jelloun's The sacred sand child : disguise and deception of the female protagonist / Tamara El-Hoss -- Self-reflexive texts : uncovering artistic process beneath narrative layers -- Between a rock and a hard place : Marie Redonnet's Candy store and Nevermore / Jeannette Gaudet -- Matthew Barney's strategic and critical disguises : Cremaster 3 and masculine performativity / Richard Smolinski -- Suspension of filmic disbelief : filling in the interstices between the frames -- Famous film failures-- or our lapse in "poetic faith" / Maurice Yacowar -- Deception as aggression : Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel's Un chien Andalou / R. …”
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A companion to Woody Allen

Table of Contents: “…: a census of literary, philosophical and artistic allusions in Woody Allen's film -- Menachem Feuer: The schlemiel in Woody Allen's films -- Brian Bergen-Aurand: Barcelona: city of refuge -- Philosophy/religion. …”
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Heritage Conservation and Social Engagement /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note -- 1 Conservation and engagement: transforming and being transformed -- Introduction -- Contemporary conservation -- Conservation and participation -- Implicit ideas of truth and neutrality -- Artist's intention -- Reversibility -- Minimum intervention -- Condition -- Visibility and neutrality -- Transforming and being transformed -- Action and reflection -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References…”
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Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0 : Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections / by Leurs, Koen

Table of Contents: “…Diagram 10: Moroccan-Dutch youth cultural self-profiling on SNSs (multiple answers possible, graph shows percentages, n = 344) -- Diagram 11: Geographical locations of music artists interviewees look up on YouTube (percentages, multiple answers possible, n = 43) -- Diagram 12: Geographical locations of artists interviewees combine in their YouTube viewing practices (percentages, n = 43).…”
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The performer's voice /

Table of Contents: “…Hartnick -- The aging voice / Chad Whited, Jarrod Keeler, Leda Scearce, and Seth Cohen -- Artistic vocal styles and techniques / Sharon L. Radionoff -- Case history, interview and voice handicap assessment / Thomas Murry and Michael S. …”
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Cultural sustainability, tourism and development : (re)articulations in tourism contexts /

Table of Contents: “…<BR><EM>Greg Richards</EM></P><P><B>Part II Artistic interventions for regional revitalization</B></P><P>4. …”
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"Music makers" and world creators : the forms and functions of embedded poems in British fantasy narratives / by Hausmann, Michaela

Table of Contents: “…3 George MacDonald's Phantastes (1858) -- 3.1 Literary Influences and Artistic Vision -- 3.2 Imagination and Creative Power in Paratextual and Intratextual Poems -- 3.3 Love and Ideals in Paratextual and Intratextual Poems -- 3.4 Failure and Improvement in Paratextual and Intratextual Poems -- 3.5 Journey and Death in Paratextual and Intratextual Poems -- 3.6 Interim Conclusion -- 4 Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871) -- 4.1 Lewis Carroll and Nonsense Fantasy -- 4.2 The Framing Poems -- 4.3 Jabberwocky -- 4.4 Nursery Rhymes and Parodies -- 4.5 Of Fish and Power…”
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