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  • Theatre & Change in South Africa

    by Geoffrey Davis, Anne Fuchs ...
    First Published in 1997. Can South African theatre continue to maintain its autonomy and exercise its critical role? Can one rethink form and find new content? Can a concept of post-protest theatre be developed? How might theatre contribute to post-apartheid soceity? These are just of the questions addressed in this book. The real and present difficulties South Africian theatre is facing, as well ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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    The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood

    Edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg ...
    The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto's first 'priority neighbourhood.'From the 1840s until the Second World War, waves of newcomers who migrated to Toronto – Irish, Jewish, Italian, African American and Chinese, among others – landed in 'The Ward.' Crammed with rundown housing and immigrant-owned businesses, this area, bordered by College and Queen, University and Yonge streets, was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Four Walls and a Roof

    The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

    by Reinier de Graaf ...
    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year“Sharp, revealing, funny.”—The Guardian“An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again… [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it.”—The EconomistArchitecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form... ... Read more

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  • The Sixties

    Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974

    by Arthur Marwick ...
    If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, acting as the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of this tumultuous decade.Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Everything, All the Time, Everywhere

    How We Became Postmodern

    by Stuart Jeffries ...
    A radical new history of a dangerous ideaPost-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, post-modernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Return of Curiosity

    What Museums are Good For in the Twenty-first Century

    by Nicholas Thomas ...
    Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for. Nicholas Thomas argues that what is special about museums are their collections, which are not just rich resources for reflection, but creative technologies that enable people to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Johannesburg

    The Elusive Metropolis

    by AbdouMaliq Simone ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Yesterday

    A New History of Nostalgia

    by Tobias Becker ...
    A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of “retro” to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump.Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity. And nostalgia is routinely blamed for trivializing the past and obscuring its ugly sides. In Yesterday, Tobias Becker offers a more nuanced and ... Read more

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  • From a Cause to a Style

    Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City

    by Nathan Glazer ...
    Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about what this architectural movement will bequeath to future generations. In From a Cause to a Style, he proclaims his disappointment with modernism and its impact on the American city.Writing ... Read more

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  • A History of African Popular Culture

    by Karin Barber ...
    Series Book 11 - New Approaches to African History
    Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Not just a mirror. Looking for the political theatre today

    Performing Urgency 1

    by Florian Malzacher, Julian Boal, Boris Buden, Galit Eilat, John Jordan, Bojana Kunst, Oliver Marchart, Carol Martin, Guilia Palladini, Jeroen Peeters0, Goran Sergej Pristas1, Sylvia Sasse2, Francesco Scasciamacchia3, Margarita Tsomou4, Tsianos Vassilis S.5, Annie Dorsen6, Monika Gintersdorfer7, Matan Cohen8, Alexander Karschnia9, Beatrix Kricsfalusi0, Hans-Thies Lehmann1, Tala J. Manassah2, Roman Pawlowski3, Christian Römer4, Benjamin Wihstutz5 ...
    Der englischsprachige Band Not Just a Mirror setzt sich mit grundlegenden Fragen des politischen Theaters in der Gegenwart auseinander und stellt künstlerisch-politische Strategien und Praktiken von Theatermachern aus aller Welt vor - u. a. Chto Delat, Milo Rau, Kretakör, Faustin Linyekula, Public Movement, Christoph Schlingensief, Akira Takayama. Mit Beiträgen von Julian Boal, Boris Buden, Matan ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Joined Forces

    Audience Participation in Theatre. Performing Urgencies #3

    by Jan Sowa, Dominique Nduhura, Antoine Pickels, Justine Boutens, Elena Basteri, Miriam Tscholl, Roger Bernat, Roberto Fratini Serafide, Ophelia Patricio Arrabal, Ana Vujanović, Tobi Müller, Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel, Rimini Protokoll, Lotte van den Berg, Tea Tupajić, Tom Sellar, Adelheid Roosen, Wojtek Ziemilski, Adam Czirak, Johanna Freiburg, Bastian Trost, Gob Squad ...
    Band 3 der von Florian Malzacher herausgegebenen englischsprachigen Reihe Performing Urgency. Im Kontext heutiger Politik, Wirtschaft und sich permanent verändernden kulturellen Trends kommt das traditionelle Theater mit seiner Trennung von aktiven Darstellern und passiven Zuschauern immer mehr aus der Mode. Zeitgenössische Künstler emanzipieren ihr Publikum, laden es auf die Bühne und in die ... Read more

    $19.99 USD