Ballroom: Culture and Costume in Competitive Dance
Author: Jonathan S. Marion File Type: pdf Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender and more. Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress and the body. Presenting the authors experiences at an international range of dance events in Europe, the US and UK, as well as featuring the views of individual dancers, the book shows how dancing influences mind and body alike. For students of anthropology, dance, cultural and performance studies, Ballroom provides an ethnographic picture of how dancers and others live their lives both on and off the dance floor.
Author: Amy M. Froide
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Never Married Singlewomen in Early Modern England investigates a paradox in the history of early modern England although one third of adult women were never married, these women have remained largely absent from historical scholarship. Amy Froide reintroduces us to the category of difference called marital status and to the significant ways it shaped the life experiences of early modern women. By de-centring marriage as the norm in social, economic, and cultural terms, her book critically refines our current understanding of peoples lives in the past and adds to a recent line of scholarship that questions just how common traditional families really were.This book is both a social-economic study of singlewomen and a cultural study of the meanings of singleness in early modern England. It focuses on never-married women in Englands provincial towns, and on singlewomen from a broad social spectrum. Covering the entire early modern era, it reveals that this was a time of transition in the history of never-married women. During the sixteenth century life-long singlewomen were largely absent from popular culture, but by the eighteenth century they had become a central concern of English society.As the first book of original research to focus on singlewomen on the period, it also illuminates other areas of early modern history. Froide reveals the importance of kinship in the past to women without husbands and children, as well as to widows, widowers, single men, and orphans. Examining the contributions of working and propertied singlewomen, she is able to illustrate the importance of gender and marital status to urban economies and to notions of urban citizenship in the early modern era. Tracing the origins of the spinster and old maid stereotypes she reveals how singlewomen were marginalized as first the victims and then the villains of Protestant English society.Review`Review from previous edition Froides pioneering foray is a valuable exploration of an important and neglected issue Bernard Capp, The English Historical Review About the AuthorAmy Froide is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County.
Author: Jennifer Clement
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The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiats partner, her past, and their life togetherNew York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant art of the 20th century. It was where Jean-Michel Basquiat became an avant-garde street artist and painter, swiftly achieving worldwide fame. During the years before his death at the age of 27, he shared his life with his lover and muse, Suzanne Mallouk. A runaway from an unhappy home in Canada, Suzanne first met Jean-Michel in a bar on the Lower East Side in 1980. Thus began a tumultuous and passionate relationship that deeply influenced one of the most exceptional artists of our time. In emotionally resonant prose, award-winning author Jennifer Clement tells the story of the passion that swept Suzanne and Jean-Michel into a short-lived, unforgettable affair. A poetic interpretation like no other, Widow Basquiat is an expression of the unrelenting power of addiction, obsession and love. From the Trade Paperback edition.**
Author: Louis H. Janda
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FIND OUT HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT OUT OF LIFE . . . Do you long for happiness? Do you worry too much? Are you content in your romantic relationships? Do you wish you felt better about yourself? Now you can discover exactly whats stopping you from living the life you long to lead-and what you can do about it. Based on the latest research, this inspiring guide by renowned author and psychologist Dr. Louis Janda presents twenty-four psychological tests that will help you identify the barriers standing between you and a more fulfilling personal and professional life-and figure out how you can overcome them. Developed by behavioral researchers for professional use, these tests are divided into three sections-personal barriers, interpersonal barriers, and ones capacity for change-and cover every aspect of personality, from self-esteem, impulsiveness, and self-efficacy, to intimacy, anger, and romantic relationships. Best of all, at the end of each test, Dr. Janda provides expert advice that will help you use your results to make changes for yourself or help you decide whether you should seek professional help. Refreshingly candid and insightful, The Psychologists Book of Personality Tests will not only help you achieve greater personal and professional success-it will show you how to get what you want out of life.
Author: Dimitri Verhulst
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p itemprop=description Dinsdagland is een verzameling reisreportages van een thuisblijver. Over Belgie. Het is een liefdesverklaring aan de kleine Belg, een verwondering over zijn amusement, een ode aan zijn in onbruik rakende schone woorden. Het is een in stukken en brokken geslagen vertelling over een Belgische jeugd, een boekstaven van de dingen die voorbijgaan. Het is gazettenpraat en cafepraat, een getuigenis met grote gebaren, een openlijk gelofte van Belgheid. Het gaat over duiven en de dood, over trekpaarden en hun droeften, over heilige maagden en wielerkoers, over de God van gisteren en over nonkel Potrel. Het is van alles, en dat voor weinig geld. Het is geschreven op het ritme van een zatte kusjesdans, afgewisseld door een hoempapa, ole en ola, door een schrijver die schijt heeft aan de angst een schrijver van onder de kerktorens te zijn. Het is een monument voor wat gaat sneuvelen, een logboek van een land, de restjes van een drinkgelag. Het is konijn met pruimen, lectuur voor onder de haardroger van het kapsalon, handgeschreven jazz voor trompet en majorette. Recencie(s) De Vlaming Verhulst ging niet op reis naar verre oorden, maar in eigen land, waarover hij pittige rapportages schrijft. Een zestiental daarvan zijn gebundeld in dit boek, waarvan 14 eerder verschenen, merendeels in de krant De Morgen van 2001 tot in 2003. Allerlei aspecten van de Belgische samenleving worden kritisch onder de loep genomen, vermengd met eigen (jeugd)ervaringen, zoals duivensport, kaatsen, kamperen en bergsport in de Ardennen, wielrennen, Eddy Merckx en de Ronde van Vlaanderen, Maria en andere heiligen, het Belgische trekpaard, het kuuroord Spa enz. Het is allemaal vlot geschreven in een hier en daar wat hilarische en barok-Vlaams aandoende stijl. Van deze auteur verscheen eerder Problemski Hotel, een reportage over een Belgisch asielzoekerscentrum*. Vrij kleine druk.Dr. J. Kroes (source Bol.com)
Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carrolls imaginative creation of Wonderlanda sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era **
Author: Fiona Macintosh
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When the eighteenth-century choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre sought to develop what is now known as modern ballet, he turned to ancient pantomime as his source of inspiration and when Isadora Duncan and her contemporaries looked for alternatives to the strictures of classical ballet, they looked to ancient Greek vases for models for what they termed natural movement. This is the first book to examine systematically the long history of the impact of ideas about ancient Greek and Roman dance on modern theatrical and choreographic practices. With contributions from eminent classical scholars, dance historians, theatre specialists, modern literary critics, and art historians, as well as from contemporary practitioners, it offers a very wide conspectus on an under-explored but central aspect of classical reception, dance and theatre history, and the history of ideas. **
Author: Noreen Giffney
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This interdisciplinary collection gathers together essays by international pioneering scholars in queer theory, critical theory, cultural studies and science studies who have written on topics as diverse as Christ, antichrist, dogs, starfish, werewolves, vampires, cartoons, the death drive and the queer in queer theory.