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  • Performance and Technology

    Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity

    Edited by S. Broadhurst, J. Machon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection interrogates the interaction between new technologies and performance practice, linking the sensuous contact that must exist between the physical and virtual, together with the resultant corporeal transformation. It features writings from international contributors who specialize in digital art and performance practices. ... Read more

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  • Identity, Performance and Technology

    Practices of Empowerment, Embodiment and Technicity

    Edited by S. Broadhurst, J. Machon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This project investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance, opening up a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices and considering how identity is formed, de-formed, blurred and celebrated within diverse approaches to technological performance practice. ... Read more

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  • The Eleven Comedies - Complete

    by Aristophanes ...
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  • Love Saves the Day

    A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979

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    Opening with David Mancuso's seminal “Love Saves the Day” Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s—from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell’s Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission through America’s suburbs and urban hotspots such as Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, and ... Read more

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