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Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice brings together internationally renowned scholars and practitioners to explore the cultural, institutional, theoretical, methodolog …

In this picaresque novel, Charlotte Clarke recalls her life as an actress, and in particular, the difficulties facing a woman trying to make her way in a man”s world. The issues of women”s writing, …

Contemporary Clowning as Social Performance in Colombia brings to light the emergence of new kinds of clowning in everyday life in Colombia, focusing particularly on the pervasive presence of clowns …

In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed …

Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early modern European theater as an international phenomenon. Early modern theater was remarkable both in the ways that it …

Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early modern England”s significant and sustained intere …

Through exciting and unconventional approaches, including critical/historical, printing/publishing and performance studies, this study mines Shakespeare”s Romeo and Juliet to produce new insights in …

Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain explores the efforts of the current government in southern Spain to establish flamenco music as a significant patrimonial symbol and marker of cultural i …

Bringing together methods, assumptions and approaches from a variety of disciplines, Geraldo U. de Sousa”s innovative study explores the representation, perception, and function of the house, home, …

William Percy”s Mahomet and His Heaven (1601) is extraordinary. Not only is it the only early modern play purportedly based upon the Qur”an, but it is also the first to place the Prophet Muhammad o …