Art & Architecture
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Art & Architecture
Hardback. Placing the body at the center of critical improvisation studies, the contributors to Negotiated Moments explore the challenges of negotiating subjectivity through improvisation in various forms-from jazz, Japanese taiko drumming, and Iranian classical music to sound walking and political street theater. Editor(s): Siddall, Gillian; Waterman, Ellen. Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Num Pages: 376 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGJ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360827
- ISBN
- 9780822360827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.80
€ 115.80
Hardback. In this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race. Num Pages: 384 pages, 111 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; ACBS; HBJH; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1066.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Bilingual
- SKU
- V9780822360803
- ISBN
- 9780822360803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.85
€ 122.85
Hardback. In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle interrogates the avant-garde art of Aboriginal communities in the Australian desert, showing how it is an act of survival in the face of state occupation and a means to revive at-risk vernacular languages and cultural heritages. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 280 pages, 112 illustrations, incl. 20 in color. BIC Classification: 1M; ACBS; HBJM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360551
- ISBN
- 9780822360551
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. Containing nine performance scripts by black and Latino/a queer playwrights and performance artists-each accompanied by an interview and essay, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of sexuality, blackness, and Latinidad. Editor(s): Johnson, E. Patrick; Rivera-Servera, Ramon H. Num Pages: 584 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; JFSK; JFSL3; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 36. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360506
- ISBN
- 9780822360506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.32
€ 144.32
Hardback. Through an analysis of four contemporary operas, Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions of how we think about sound, music, and listening by challenging common assumptions about sound, freeing it from a constraining set of fixed concepts and meanings. Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 239 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360469
- ISBN
- 9780822360469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.26
€ 110.26
Paperback. In this book leading Chinese experts review the life, career, and artistic development of the pioneering Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu, whose diverse works speak to China's past and present, the relationship between Asia and the West, and canonical Western art. Editor(s): Lee, Luchia Meihua; Silbergeld, Jerome. Num Pages: 120 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; ACBS; AGB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 277 x 231 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1905.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360421
- ISBN
- 9780822360421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 45.16
€ 46.99
€ 45.16
paperback. Providing heterogeneous accounts of the intersections between the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba between 1959 and 1960, the contributors show this period to be pivotal in the culture and politics of Western Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Guilbaut, Serge; O'Brian, John. Num Pages: 352 pages, 67 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; 3JJPG; ACXD; APFA; HBTB; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360414
- ISBN
- 9780822360414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42
Hardback. In this book leading Chinese experts review the life, career, and artistic development of the pioneering Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu, whose diverse works speak to China's past and present, the relationship between Asia and the West, and canonical Western art. Editor(s): Lee, Luchia Meihua; Silbergeld, Jerome. Num Pages: 120 color illustrations. BIC Classification: AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 231 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2087.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360254
- ISBN
- 9780822360254
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.88
€ 75.88
Hardback. Providing heterogeneous accounts of the intersections between the fine art world with literature, jazz, film, and theater in New York, Paris, Milan, Brazil, and Cuba between 1959 and 1960, the contributors show this period to be pivotal in the culture and politics of Western Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Guilbaut, Serge; O'Brian, John. Num Pages: 352 pages, 67 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; 3JJPG; ACXD; APFA; HBTB; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360230
- ISBN
- 9780822360230
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.38
€ 112.38
Hardback. Appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical questions that inform our encounters with sound, stimulating our thinking about being open to new sounds and to explore the links between language, technology, culture, and hearing. Translator(s): Steintrager, James A. Num Pages: 309 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; AVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 23. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360223
- ISBN
- 9780822360223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.89
€ 114.89
Paperback. Using continental philosophy and critical theory, Homay King returns to the original meaning of the virtual-which denotes a potential on the cusp of becoming-to offer a new way to understand how contemporary digital art transcends distinctions between digital and analog, abstract and tangible, disembodiment and lived experience. Num Pages: 216 pages, 59 illustrations. BIC Classification: AFKV; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360025
- ISBN
- 9780822360025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Paperback. In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360018
- ISBN
- 9780822360018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
Hardback. Audible Empire's contributors rethink the mechanisms of empire, showing how musical practice has been important to its spread around the globe. The volume's fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography to put forth music as a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation. Editor(s): Radano, Ronald M.; Olaniyan, Tejumola. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 432 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359869
- ISBN
- 9780822359869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Hardback. In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores how Cuban raperos (black-identified rappers) in Havana craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship in the face of continuing racism and marginalization during an era in which the Cuban economy, society, and nationhood have been under constant flux. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 295 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359852
- ISBN
- 9780822359852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.87
€ 109.87
Hardback. Using continental philosophy and critical theory, Homay King returns to the original meaning of the virtual-which denotes a potential on the cusp of becoming-to offer a new way to understand how contemporary digital art transcends distinctions between digital and analog, abstract and tangible, disembodiment and lived experience. Num Pages: 216 pages, 59 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359593
- ISBN
- 9780822359593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.77
€ 107.77
Hardback. In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359586
- ISBN
- 9780822359586
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. With an adventurous writing style, Anand Pandian explores the transformative potential of cinema, following Tamil films from the spark of artistic impulse through their production, marketing, and reception to show how cinema recasts the ordinary experience of everyday life. Num Pages: 360 pages, 51 illustrations, incl. 1 in color. BIC Classification: 1FK; APFA; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822359579
- ISBN
- 9780822359579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how the popular music style reggaeton offers a space for Puerto Rican musicians to express identities that center blackness, forge links across the African diaspora, and critique the popular Puerto Rican discourse of racial democracy, which conceals racism and marginalizes black Puerto Ricans. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; AVGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359456
- ISBN
- 9780822359456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.28
€ 110.28
Hardback. Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music, as well as painting, design, dance, and poetry. Num Pages: 496 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359005
- ISBN
- 9780822359005
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Hardback. The Fierce Urgency of Now offers an impassioned call to take the practices of musical improvisation often associated with jazz performance as a model for social-justice activism. Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354642
- ISBN
- 9780822354642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories of samba and of Brazilian national culture. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 map, 16 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; 3JJ; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 23. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822354154
- ISBN
- 9780822354154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.90
€ 122.90
Hardback. The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner explores the culture and practices of independent filmmaking in the U.S., arguing that during the past three decades, independent cinema has provided vital cultural critique. Num Pages: 352 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KB; APFA; JHM; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 595.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822354109
- ISBN
- 9780822354109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. In the wake of the King assassination and subsequent uprisings, Black Public Affairs Television emerged. Devorah Heitner tells its story, analyzing the production, reception, and content of its early groundbreaking programs. Num Pages: 208 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFDT; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 15. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354093
- ISBN
- 9780822354093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.77
€ 107.77
Hardback. Jazz musicians, scholars, and journalists emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and 1970s has continued to animate the avant-garde, Free Jazz, fusion, and other forms of this lively, always-evolving music. Editor(s): Heble, Ajay; Wallace, Robert. Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822354086
- ISBN
- 9780822354086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33