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Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger cultural struggles over how to realize diversity while honoring difference.

Written for music educators from K - 5 onwards, First Instruments is a practical guide to teaching musical ideas through the first instruments we develop in early childhood, laying the foundation for how the collective creativity the book presents can sustain a lifelong commitment to music-making: voice and hand gestures.

Theory of the Image offers a new and systematic philosophy of art and aesthetics from the perspective of movement.

Author Jacqueline Avila looks at the ways that Mexican cinema and its music during the silent and early sound periods continuously reshaped the contested, fluctuating space of Mexican identity, functioning both as a sign and symptom of social and political change.

This book is a guide to Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention, which is one of the most important philosophical books of the 20th Century. The present work offers a careful and critical presentation of Anscombe's main lines of argument and emphasizes her debts to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, and her engagement with the work of then-contemporary authors including Gilbert Ryle and R.M. Hare.

Percussion Pedagogy offers students a practical guide for teaching percussion as well as improving technique for several instruments, including snare drum, timpani, marimba, vibraphone, multiple-percussion, tambourine and triangle, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tams, with Drumset (Robert Breithaupt) and Marching Percussion (Dennis DeLucia).

Technology Tips for Ensemble Teachers offers groundbreaking, innovative methods for the use of technology in music ensemble instruction.

Today's musical theatre world rocks. Rock in the Musical Theatre: A Guide for Singers is a practical guide to the many aspects of performing rock music in the theatre through a combination of aesthetic and theoretical study, extensive discussions of musical, vocal, and acting techniques, and chronicles of coaching sessions.

In this practical teaching guide for voice teachers and choir directors, author Bridget Sweet encourages a holistic approach to female and male adolescent voice change.

Teaching Music Appreciation Online shares strategies to teach music appreciation online, from developing the curriculum to preparing, teaching, and concluding the class. The book includes samples and illustrative infographics. It is a resource to those already teaching music appreciation online and a comprehensive guide to those new to the field.

Sophocles' Electra is a riveting play with a long and varied reception. Its nuanced treatment of matricidal revenge with all the questions it raises and its superb poetry have all contributed to making this one of Sophocles' most admired plays. This text and commentary provides students with all the essential information to appreciate Sophocles' complex tragedy.

Privilege at Play examines social inequality and privilege in today's Mexico through rich qualitative data. Taking an intersectional perspective, this book analyses how race, class, and gender dynamics as well as spatial exclusion work together to form and maintain social hierarchies.

This book presents a new theory of what happens at the very early stages of innovation. It describes how a new technology is transformed into an entrepreneurial opportunity and becomes the origin of economic growth. The surprising answer is cooperation. The origin of innovation begins in the commons.

Who displays yard signs? Why do they display them? In Politics on Display, we examine how neighborhoods become politicized during campaign seasons, exploring the causes and consequences of sign displaying and its implications for our understanding of political participation, attitudes about campaigns and elections, and social interaction in neighborhoods.