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Wes Anderson: The Archives (Paperback): Johanna Agerman Ross Wes Anderson: The Archives (Paperback)
Johanna Agerman Ross
R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sometimes the movie knows you better than you know yourself, and you reveal your point of view about the world without ever even intending to.’ – Wes Anderson

An archive is always a time-machine, but the archives of Wes Anderson take us on a journey not just through time, but through layers of stories and the experiences of storytelling – on paper and on film. This book is dedicated to these stories and celebrates Anderson’s over 30 years in cinema.

From the start of his career, Anderson has maintained a rich library of notebooks, drawings, paintings, polaroids, props, puppets, sets, and costumes from his films. The objects shown here are enhanced and illuminated by Anderson’s long-time collaborators: Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton; composer Alexandre Desplat; musician Seu Jorge; and music supervisor Randall Poster. Also included: an extensive interview with Anderson himself, reflecting on his films and working process.

Wes Anderson: The Archives accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Anderson’s work, curated by la Cinémathèque française in Paris and the Design Museum in London in partnership with Wes Anderson

The Jeweler's Studio Handbook - Traditional and Contemporary Techniques for Working with Metal and Mixed Media Materials... The Jeweler's Studio Handbook - Traditional and Contemporary Techniques for Working with Metal and Mixed Media Materials (Paperback)
Brandon Holschuh
R665 R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Save R55 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Master the art and craft of metal jewelry making in your own home studio Great jewelry is original, well-designed, and -- with the right tools -- can be created at home by the aspiring artist. "The Jeweler's Studio Handbook "guides you through the process of equipping your own jewelry studio and teaches you the techniques that will have you crafting one-of-a-kind metal jewelry in no time.Artist Brandon Holschuh walks you through planning your work space, selecting tools and materials, mastering basic metalwork techniques, and applying your new skills to twenty original pieces. In addition, "The Jeweler's Studio Handbook "encourages novel design, good organization and fearless experimentation, ensuring it will remain an invaluable resource for jewelry artists for years to come.Invites you into the world of the home jewelry artist, from workbench to galleryTeaches fundamental jewelry-making techniques -- hammering, soldering, riveting, and more -- in full-color photographsIllustrates the steps for crafting twenty beautiful pieces of metalwork jewelry, including rings, bracelets, earrings, and pendantsFeatures gallery-quality jewelry from dozens of contributing artists

The Art of Winnie-the-Pooh (Paperback): James Campbell The Art of Winnie-the-Pooh (Paperback)
James Campbell
R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are some of the most beloved characters in classic children’s literature.

But before they appeared in many millions of books and in nearly fifty languages, they started life in the 1920s as the product of a unique collaboration between A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard; author and illustrator wove images and text together in a way that was utterly original for the time. For Shepard, it was a process that he relished, creating artwork for new editions right up until his death in 1976, at the age of ninety-six.

In this beautifully presented, full-colour volume, readers will not only discover the story behind this remarkable partnership but also follow the evolution of Shepard’s work, from those first tentative sketches through to the illustrations we know and love, and even on to the characters’ later incarnations at Disney.

Presenting over 150 full-colour images – including never-before-published sketches, finished artwork, personal family photographs and memorabilia – this is the perfect gift for those of us who grew up loving the books.

Popular Music and Youth Culture - Music, Identity and Place (Hardcover): Andrew Bennett Popular Music and Youth Culture - Music, Identity and Place (Hardcover)
Andrew Bennett
R4,305 Discovery Miles 43 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Music- and style-centred youth cultures are now a familiar aspect of everyday life in countries as far apart around the globe as Nepal and Jamaica, Hong Kong and Israel, Denmark and Australia. This lucid and original text provides a lively and wide-ranging account of the relationship between popular music and youth culture within the context of debates about the spatial dimensions of identity. It begins with a clear and comprehensive survey, and critical evaluation, of the existing body of literature on youth culture and popular music developed by sociologists and cultural and media theorists. It then develops a fresh perspective on the ways in which popular music is appropriated as a cultural resource by young people, using as a springboard a series of original ethnographic studies of dance music, rap, bhangra and rock. Bennett's original research material is carefully contextualised within a wider international literature on youth styles, local spaces and popular music but it serves to illustrate graphically how styles of music and their attendant stylistic innovations are appropriated and `lived out' by young people in particular social spaces. Music, Bennett argues, is produced and consumed by young people in ways that both inform their sense of self and also serve to construct the social world in which their identities operate. With its comprehensive coverage of youth and music studies and its important new insights, Popular Music and Youth Culture is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology, cultural studies, media studies and popular music studies. Dr ANDY BENNETT is lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has published articles on aspects of youth culture, popular music, local identity and music and ethnicity in a number of journals, including Sociological Review, Media Culture and Society and Popular Music. He is currently co-editing a book on guitar cultures.

Star-Crossed Love - Tried-and-True Dating Advice from Classic Literature (Hardcover): Courtney Gorter Star-Crossed Love - Tried-and-True Dating Advice from Classic Literature (Hardcover)
Courtney Gorter
R294 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This humorous, snarky guide to dating and love, inspired by characters and authors from classic literature, will help you navigate the ins and outs of today's ever-more crazy dating scene with aplomb. Traversing the mystifying swampland that is today's dating scene requires a guide. Forget your BFF--no one knows the ins and outs of love in all its star-crossed glory quite like characters from the great classics. The hopeless romantic in a Shakespeare play. The charming heroine in a Jane Austen novel. The ill-fated dreamer in pretty much anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald. You'll find sage advice and everything you need to know about romance and relationships--from flirting to the honeymoon phase, rocky roads to domestic bliss--courtesy of all the classic characters we know and love (and some we love to hate).

The Medieval Tailor's Assistant - Common Garments 1100-1480 (Paperback, New edition): Sarah Thursfield The Medieval Tailor's Assistant - Common Garments 1100-1480 (Paperback, New edition)
Sarah Thursfield
R875 R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Save R66 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Medieval Tailor's Assistant is the standard work for both amateurs and professionals wishing to re-create the clothing of Medieval England for historical interpretation or drama. This new edition extends its range with details of fitting different figures and many more patterns for main garments and accessories from 1100 to 1480. It includes simple instructions for plain garments, as well as more complex patterns and adaptations for experienced sewers. Advice on planning outfits and materials to use is given along with a range of projects and alternative designs, from undergarments to outer wear. Early and later tailoring methods are also covered within the period. There are clear line drawings, pattern diagrams and layouts and over eighty full-colour photographs that show the garments as working outfits.

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire - Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever (Paperback): Will Hermes Love Goes to Buildings on Fire - Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever (Paperback)
Will Hermes
R466 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented--block by block, by musicians who knew, admired, and borrowed from one another. Crime was everywhere, the government was broke, and the infrastructure was collapsing. But rent was cheap, and the possibilities for musical exploration were limitless."Love Goes to Buildings on Fire "is the first book to tell the full story of the era's music scenes and the phenomenal and surprising ways they intersected. From New Year's Day 1973 to New Year's Eve 1977, the book moves panoramically from post-Dylan Greenwich Village, to the arson-scarred South Bronx barrios where salsa and hip-hop were created, to the lower Manhattan lofts where jazz and classical music were reimagined, to ramshackle clubs like CBGB and the Gallery, where rock and dance music were hot-wired for a new generation.

Draw a Straight Line and Follow It - The Music and Mysticism of LaMonte Young (Hardcover): Jeremy Grimshaw Draw a Straight Line and Follow It - The Music and Mysticism of LaMonte Young (Hardcover)
Jeremy Grimshaw
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although La Monte Young is one of the most important composers of the late twentieth century, he is also one of the most elusive. Generally recognized as the patriarch of the minimalist movement-Brian Eno once called him "the daddy of us all"-he nonetheless remains an enigma within the music world. Early in his career Young eschewed almost completely the conventional musical institutions of publishers, record labels, and venues, in order to create compositions completely unfettered by commercial concerns. At the same time, however, he exercised profound influence on such varied figures as Terry Riley, Cornelius Cardew, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, David Lang, Velvet Underground, and entire branches of electronica and drone music. For half a century he and his partner and collaborator, Marian Zazeela, have worked in near-seclusion in their Tribeca loft, creating works that explore the furthest extremes of conceptual audacity, technical sophistication, acoustical complexity, and overt spirituality. Because Young gives interviews only rarely, and almost never grants access to his extensive archives, his importance as a composer has heretofore not been matched by a commensurate amount of scholarly scrutiny. Draw A Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young stands as the first monograph to examine Young's life and work in detail. The book is a culmination of a decade of research, during which the author gained rare access to the composer and his archives. Though loosely structured upon the chronology of the composer's career, the book takes a multi-disciplinary approach that combines biography, musicology, ethnomusicology, and music analysis, and illuminates such seemingly disparate aspects of Young's work as integral serialism and indeterminacy, Mormon esoterica and Vedic mysticism, and psychedelia and psychoacoustics. The book is a long-awaited, in-depth look at one of America's most fascinating musical figures.

The Domestic Stage: When Fashion Image Comes Home (Hardcover): Adam Murray The Domestic Stage: When Fashion Image Comes Home (Hardcover)
Adam Murray
R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A bold exploration of the role of the domestic interior in fashion photography and its importance in defining a new kind of fashion image.

For three decades, the fashion image has shifted its focus from high-end shoots to the idiosyncratic, Instagram-style practice of pictures taken at home. That home may be a house, apartment or room – often, though not always, the antithesis of glamour and gloss.

The Domestic Stage captures this fascination with the home as an 'uncurated' setting for presenting an individual’s private life and relationships, and for professional commissions with edge. Those behind the camera come from very different places, but all celebrate a sense of inventiveness and empowerment from working in the domestic space. How this space merged with the fashion image is revealed through the words and work of twenty-two such image-makers, most of whom talked personally to author Adam Murray. They include the pioneering Nigel Shafran; International Magic, who created virtual fashion shows with Martine Rose during the pandemic; and Carrie Mae Weems, whose 2024 Bottega Veneta campaign truly came 'home' – to show A$AP Rocky enjoying time with his children.

Each and every contributor’s commentary is candid and revealing, their images even more so. The result is a provocative new take on fashion photography and its transformation in recent years.

Hutchinson County (Paperback): Clay Renick Hutchinson County (Paperback)
Clay Renick
R542 R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Nobody (Hardcover, Illustrated edition): Alice Oswald Nobody (Hardcover, Illustrated edition)
Alice Oswald; Illustrated by William Tillyer
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Expecting: A Pregnancy Journal - A Memory Book and Keepsake to Capture Moments Big and Small (Hardcover): Anisha Pandya Patel Expecting: A Pregnancy Journal - A Memory Book and Keepsake to Capture Moments Big and Small (Hardcover)
Anisha Pandya Patel
R593 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Music Endangerment - How Language Maintenance Can Help (Hardcover): Catherine Grant Music Endangerment - How Language Maintenance Can Help (Hardcover)
Catherine Grant
R3,834 Discovery Miles 38 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In response to increased focus on the protection of intangible cultural heritage across the world, Music Endangerment offers a new practical approach to assessing, advocating, and assisting the sustainability of musical genres. Drawing upon relevant ethnomusicological research on globalization and musical diversity, musical change, music revivals, and ecological models for sustainability, author Catherine Grant systematically critiques strategies that are currently employed to support endangered musics. She then constructs a comparative framework between language and music, adapting and applying the measures of language endangerment as developed by UNESCO, in order to identify ways in which language maintenance might (and might not) illuminate new pathways to keeping these musics strong. Grant's work presents the first in-depth, standardized, replicable tool for gauging the level of vitality of music genres, providing an invaluable resource for the creation and maintenance of international cultural policy. It will enable those working in the field to effectively demonstrate the degree to which outside intervention could be of tangible benefit to communities whose musical practices are under threat. Significant for both its insight and its utility, Music Endangerment is an important contribution to the growing field of applied ethnomusicology, and will help secure the continued diversity of our global musical traditions.

Master Singers - Advice from the Stage (Hardcover): Donald George, Lucy Mauro Master Singers - Advice from the Stage (Hardcover)
Donald George, Lucy Mauro
R3,558 Discovery Miles 35 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is often a dichotomy between the academic approach to singing that voice students learn in the studio and what professional singers do on the operatic and concert stage. Great singers at the top of the performing profession achieve their place with much analysis and awareness of their technique, art, interpretation and stagecraft that goes far beyond academic study and develops over years of experience, exposure, and the occasional embarrassing error. Master Singers brings these insights to the student, teacher, and emerging professional singer, giving them many needed signs and signals along the road to achieving their own artistry and established career. Through interviews with some of today's most accomplished and renowned concert and operatic singers, including Stephanie Blythe, David Daniels, Joyce DiDonato, Denyce Graves, Thomas Hampson, Jonas Kaufmann, Simon Keenlyside, Ewa Podle, Master Singers provides vocalists making the transition from student to professional with indispensable advice on matters ranging from technique and its practical application for effective stage projection to the practicalities of the business of professional singing and maintaining a career to recommendations for vocal hygiene and longevity in singing. Rather than relying on a traditional one-singer-at-a-time structure, Donald George and Lucy Mauro distill answers to a range of essential, probing questions into a thematic approach, creating not a standard interview book but a true reference for emerging professional singers. An indispensable resource and reliable guide, Master Singers will find its place on the bookshelf of singers of this generation and the next.

Machine-Age Comedy (Hardcover): Michael North Machine-Age Comedy (Hardcover)
Michael North
R3,746 Discovery Miles 37 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural history that spans the entire twentieth century, showing how changes wrought by industrialization have forever altered the comic mode. With keen analyses, North examines the work of a wide range of artists - including Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett, and David Foster Wallace - to show the creative and unconventional ways the routinization of industrial society has been explored in a broad array of cultural forms. Throughout, North argues that modern writers and artists found something inherently comic in new experiences of repetition associated with, enforced by, and made inevitable by the machine age. Ultimately, this rich, tightly focused study offers a new lens for understanding the devlopment of comedic structures during periods of massive social, political, and cultural change to reveal how the original promise of modern life can be extracted from its practical disappointment.

Piano Exam Pieces 2021 & 2022, ABRSM Grade 6 - Selected from the 2021 & 2022 syllabus (Sheet music): Abrsm Piano Exam Pieces 2021 & 2022, ABRSM Grade 6 - Selected from the 2021 & 2022 syllabus (Sheet music)
Abrsm
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 6 Piano syllabus for 2021 & 2022, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C. The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams, useful syllabus information.

Surviving Images - Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover): Kamran Rastegar Surviving Images - Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East (Hardcover)
Kamran Rastegar
R3,565 Discovery Miles 35 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Surviving Images explores the prominent role of cinema in the development of cultural memory around war and conflict in colonial and postcolonial contexts. It does so through a study of three historical eras: the colonial period, the national-independence struggle, and the postcolonial. Beginning with a study of British colonial cinema on the Sudan, then exploring anti-colonial cinema in Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia, followed by case studies of films emerging from postcolonial contexts in Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and Israel, this work aims to fill a gap in the critical literature on both Middle Eastern cinemas, and to contribute more broadly to scholarship on social trauma and cultural memory in colonial and postcolonial contexts. This work treats the concept of trauma critically, however, and posits that social trauma must be understood as a framework for producing social and political meaning out of these historical events. Social trauma thus sets out a productive process of historical interpretation, and cultural texts such as cinematic works both illuminate and contribute to this process. Through these discussions, Surviving Images illustrates cinema's productive role in contributing to the changing dynamics of cultural memory of war and social conflict in the modern world.

Florida (Paperback): John Crippen Florida (Paperback)
John Crippen
R298 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R24 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

America's southernmost state is a place of great diversity and energy. The United States' fourth largest economy and home to more than 20 million people, Florida also hosts more than 100 million visitors every year, most of whom arrive to enjoy the beaches, warm weather and entertainment of 'The Sunshine State'. Images of tanning tourists, retired seniors and Mickey Mouse give an incomplete picture of Florida. The state is also home to the Everglades, a vast area of sub-tropical wetlands and swamps filled with alligators and flamingos; Miami's Cuban culture and cuisine; the international race course at Daytona Beach; the Kennedy Space Center, which has been launching NASA space shuttles since 1964; and the famous Florida Keys, a coral archipelago stretching out into the Gulf of Mexico. Presented in a handy, pocket-sized landscape format and with captions explaining the story behind each photo, Florida is a stunning collection of images bringing to life the vitality of this sunny American state.

Night People - How to Be a DJ in ?90s New York City (Paperback): Mark Ronson Night People - How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City (Paperback)
Mark Ronson
R440 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R71 (16%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack—Mark Ronson’s musical fingerprints are everywhere in our pop culture. Now comes his electrifying memoir, which captures the music, characters, escapades, and raw emotional journey of his DJ days in ’90s New York.

‘What happens when your music obsession catapults you beyond your wildest dreams? The answer is Night People – the most life-affirming coming-of-age story I’ve read in an age, with a soundtrack to die for. You know how your favourite record sounds? That’s how Mark Ronson writes.’ Pete Paphides, author of Broken Greek

Mark Ronson was born a night person. With hedonistic creatives for parents, parties became his playground. Yet, having moved to New York City from London at a young age, he always felt like a bit of an outsider, until discovering himself in the pulsing, unifying joy of the city’s parties and hip-hop scene. Each night brought a heady mix of music, ambition, danger, delight, and possibilities. Having well and truly caught the DJing bug, he worked to find his place and make his name in the city that never sleeps.

Night People conjures the undeniable magic of '90s New York. It evokes the rush of a time and place where fashionistas and rappers on the rise danced alongside club kids and 9-to-5'ers – and invites us into the tribe of creatives and partiers who came alive when the sun went down. A heartfelt coming-of-age tale, Night People is the definitive account of a cultural moment and the making of a musical mastermind.

Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent - Worldbook - Lawbrand RPG (Hardcover): Warchief Gaming, Chris Metzen Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent - Worldbook - Lawbrand RPG (Hardcover)
Warchief Gaming, Chris Metzen
R1,212 R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Save R196 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

WELCOME TO LAWBRANDAuroboros: Coils of the Serpent is a 5E campaign setting by Chris Metzen and Warchief Gaming. The first release in this universe, Worldbook: Lawbrand, is based on the roleplaying campaign that Chris ran with his childhood friends in the eighties and nineties, before heading to Blizzard to work on worlds such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and more.As a 5E compatible source book, Worldbook: Lawbrand gives players and GMs all the tools they'll need to create their own adventures in this epic fantasy world.Containing over a hundred pages of lore, as well as being loaded to the brim with new options for character customization, Worldbook: Lawbrand also features a comprehensive Adventures section, designed to give GMs a way to launch imaginative adventures for their party.Key Features: - Background and lore for each Trade-City, faction, and key players that run them.- Four brand new sub-classes and five new races unique to the setting, as well as new magic items, spells, and magical tattoos known as sigils.- Guides and recommendations on how to run adventures in Lawbrand, including creating compelling stories, using the Mark of the Serpent in your party, and more.Will you tame the world - or shatter it?

As As It Was and World Without End (Paperback): Helen Thomas As As It Was and World Without End (Paperback)
Helen Thomas
R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mal oor metaal - Projekte met handwerkmetaal vir jou tuiste (Paperback): Monica Fischer, Suzan Cumpsty, Lee Vorster Mal oor metaal - Projekte met handwerkmetaal vir jou tuiste (Paperback)
Monica Fischer, Suzan Cumpsty, Lee Vorster
R95 R88 Discovery Miles 880 Save R7 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Handwerkmetaal het eindelose versierpotensiaal. Dit is buigsaam en kan om bykans enige oppervlak gevou of daarop geplak word. Hierdie boek fokus op gekleurde handwerkmetaal - hoe dit versier kan word met bosseleerwerk, uitsnywerk, die byvoeg of wegneem van kleur, 3D-ontwerpe wat ingevul word en vele meer - en hoe jy daarmee unieke items vir jou tuiste kan skep. Leer meer oor metaal en items waarop dit aangebring kan word, hoe om die nodige gereedskap te gebruik, en hoe om verskeie tegnieke toe te pas wat almal gebruik kan word om die meer as 50 dekoratiewe of funksionele items te skep. Die oorspronklike projekte is spesifiek ontwerp en geskep om die groot verskeidenheid tegnieke en toepassings te demonstreer, soos: Die oordra en natrek van ontwerpe; Hoe om met eenvoudige handgereedskap tekstuur te skep; Die gebruik van bosseleerapparaat soos die cuttlebug om tekstuur, patrone en uitsnywerk te skep; Afrondingstegnieke soos skuurwerk, veroudering en verf; Herwinning en hergebruik; Wenke en raad om prosesse te vereenvoudig. Daar is projekte vir alle vaardigheidsvlakke, van beginners tot gesoute handwerkers, en maklike items wat blitsvinnig gemaak kan word tot meesterstukke wat langer sal neem om te voltooi. Manjifieke foto's van die voltooide items sal jou inspireer en jy kan danksy die stap-vir-stap foto's en aanwysings sommer dadelik aan die werk spring.

She is Cuba - A Genealogy of the Mulata Body (Hardcover): Melissa Blanco Borelli She is Cuba - A Genealogy of the Mulata Body (Hardcover)
Melissa Blanco Borelli
R3,567 Discovery Miles 35 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis. By focusing on her living and dancing body in order to flesh out the process of identity formation, this book makes a claim for how subaltern bodies negotiate a cultural identity that continues to mark their bodies on a daily basis. Combining literary and personal narratives with historical and theoretical accounts of Cuban popular dance history, religiosity and culture, this work investigates the power of embodied exchanges: bodies watching, looking, touching and dancing with one another. It sets up a genealogy of how the representations and venerations of the dancing mulata continue to circulate and participate in the volatile political and social economy of contemporary Cuba.

Policy and the Political Life of Music Education (Hardcover): Patrick Schmidt, Richard Colwell Policy and the Political Life of Music Education (Hardcover)
Patrick Schmidt, Richard Colwell
R3,568 Discovery Miles 35 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Policy and the Political Life of Music Education is the first book of its kind in the field of Music Education. It offers a far-reaching and innovative outlook, bringing together expert voices who provide a multifaceted and global set of insights into a critical arena for action today: policy. On one hand, the book helps the novice to make sense of what policy is, how it functions, and how it is discussed in various parts of the world; while on the other, it offers the experienced educator a set of critically written analyses that outline the state of the play of music education policy thinking. As policy participation remains largely underexplored in music education, the book helps to clarify to teachers how policy thinking does shape educational action and directly influences the nature, extent, and impact of our programs. The goal is to help readers understand the complexities of policy and to become better skilled in how to think, speak, and act in policy terms. The book provides new ways to understand and therefore imagine policy, approximating it to the lives of educators and highlighting its importance and impact. This is an essential read for anyone interested in change and how to better understand decision-making within music and education. Finally, this book, while aimed at the growth of music educators' knowledge-base regarding policy, also fosters 'open thinking' regarding policy as subject, helping educators straddling arts and education to recognize that policy thinking can offer creative designs for educational change.

The Art of DuckTales (Deluxe Edition) (Hardcover): Ken Plume, Disney The Art of DuckTales (Deluxe Edition) (Hardcover)
Ken Plume, Disney
R2,513 R2,341 Discovery Miles 23 410 Save R172 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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