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  • Shoot an Iraqi

    Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun

    Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the United States to become a professor and a successful artist, but when his brother was killed by an unmanned U.S. Predator drone, he decided to use his art to confront those in the ... Leer más

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  • Chicago’s Modern Mayors

    From Harold Washington to Lori Lightfoot

    Political profiles of five mayors and their lasting impact on the cityChicago’s transformation into a global city began at City Hall. Dick Simpson and Betty O’Shaughnessy edit in-depth analyses of the five mayors that guided the city through this transition beginning with Harold Washington’s 1983 election: Washington, Eugene Sawyer, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emmanuel, and Lori Lightfoot. Though the ... Leer más

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  • Mayada, Daughter of Iraq

    One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein

    de Jean Sasson ...
    “Sasson's candid, straightforward account...gives readers a glimpse of the cruelty and hardship endured by generations of Iraqis.”—Publishers WeeklyA member of one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq, Mayada grew up surrounded by wealth and royalty. But when Saddam Hussein’s regime took power, she was thrown into cell 52 in the infamous Baladiyat prison with seventeen other ... Leer más

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  • The Partnership

    Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink

    de Pamela Katz ...
    Among the most creative and outsized personalities of the Weimar Republic, that sizzling yet decadent epoch between the Great War and the Nazis' rise to power, were the renegade poet Bertolt Brecht and the rebellious avant-garde composer Kurt Weill. These two young geniuses and the three women vital to their work—actresses Lotte Lenya and Helene Weigel and writer Elizabeth Hauptmann—joined talents ... Leer más

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  • More Than Two to Tango

    Argentine Tango Immigrants in New York City

    The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous façade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant artists whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango offers a detailed portrait of Argentine immigrants for whom tango is both an art form and a means of survival.Based on a highly visible group of performers ... Leer más

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  • Performing Violence

    Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama

    New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing Violence is the first English-language study of the consequent boom in drama and why this new breed of ... Leer más

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  • There Has Possibly Been An Incident

    de Chris Thorpe ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    When life offers you a choice between heroism and compromise - what happens? Sometimes planes don’t land the way they’re supposed to. The people of a country have had enough of their leaders, but those leaders have to be replaced with something. A person steps out of a crowd and, for a moment, becomes more than human. A man walks into the lobby of a building and brings death with him to prove his ... Leer más

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  • Performing Arts Center Management

    Edición de Robyn Williams, Patricia Lambert ...
    Series series Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
    Performing arts centers (PACs) are an integral part of the cultural and creative industries, significantly influencing the cultural, social, and economic vitality of communities around the world. Virtually all PACs are community-based and serve the public interest, whether structured as a public, nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid entity. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the important ... Leer más

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  • Chekhov in Hell

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    I don't know who he is but he's old, he's got to know stuff... he's got to be like wise and stuff yeah?Anton Chekhov, masterful playwright and mirror to Russian society, awakening from one hundred years of sleep, is thrust rudely into twenty first century Britain. Reality shows, fashionistas, Z-list celebrities, illegal immigrants, chuggers and wags. Pole dancing, YouTube, Twitter and 5-a-day. ... Leer más

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  • The Hemingway Monologues: An Epic Drama of Love, Genius and Eternity

    Part Two: The Lost Generatioin

    Series Libro 2 - The Hemingway Monologues
    With The Hemingway Monologues Brian Gordon Sinclair gives us an intimate insight into the circumstances that shaped the famed author’s life and inspired him in his writing. The Lost Generation is the second in this seven-play series that traces Hemingway’s chronology from birth to death. This play debuted at the Hemingway Days Festival in Key West, Florida, in July of 2004. Brian Gordon Sinclair ... Leer más

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  • D'ARS magazine n° 218

    Contemporary arts and cultures

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    Series Libro 218 - DARS Magazine
    D’ARS Magazine è una collana in formato ePub che dal 2014 offre al pubblico una raccolta di articoli tratti da D’ARS - periodico di arti e culture contemporanee in due lingue (italiano e inglese).Diretto da Cristina Trivellin, D’ARS propone un approccio sincretico alle arti e alle culture contemporanee, spaziando tra i vari linguaggi in un ideale filo rosso che lega arti visive, filosofia, ... Leer más

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  • Arts of Engagement

    Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

    Edición de Dylan Robinson, Keavy Martin ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history, at TRC national and community events, and in artwork and exhibitions not affiliated with the TRC. ... Leer más

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