Polyrhythmicity in Language, Music and Society

Polyrhythmicity in Language, Music and Society

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  • Author: Richard Andrews
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9811605661
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 181

This book addresses the complex time relations that occur in some types of jazz and classical music, as well as in the novel, plays and poetry. It discusses these multiple levels of rhythm from a social science as well as an arts and humanities perspective. Building on his ground-breaking work in Re-framing Literacy, A Prosody of Free Verse and Multimodality, Poetry and Poetics, the author explores the world of multiple- or poly-rhythms in music, literature and the social sciences. He reveals that multi-layered rhythms are uncommon and little researched. Nevertheless, they are important to the experience of art and social situations, not least because they link physicality to feeling and to decision-making (timing), as well as to aesthetic experience. Whereas most poly-rhythmic relations are felt unconsciously, this book reveals the complex patterning that underpins the structures of feeling and of experience.


Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance

Heat and Alterity in Contemporary Dance

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  • Author: Ananya Chatterjea
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030439127
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

This book argues that contemporary dance, imagined to have a global belonging, is vitiated by euro-white constructions of risk and currency that remain at its core. Differently, the book reimagines contemporary dance along a “South-South” axis, as a poly-centric, justice-oriented, aesthetic-temporal category, with intersectional understandings of difference as a central organizing principle. Placing alterity and heat, generated via multiple pathways, at its center, it foregrounds the work of South-South artists, who push against constructions of “tradition” and white-centered aesthetic imperatives, to reinvent their choreographic toolkit and respond to urgent questions of their times. In recasting the grounds for a different “global stage,” the argument widens its scope to indicate how dance-making both indexes current contextual inequities and broader relations of social, economic, political, and cultural power, and inaugurates future dimensions of justice. Winner of the 2022 Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research


Sounds and the City

Sounds and the City

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  • Author: B. Lashua
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137283114
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 323

This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music.


The Culture of Translation in Romania / Uebersetzungskultur und Literaturuebersetzen in Rumaenien

The Culture of Translation in Romania / Uebersetzungskultur und Literaturuebersetzen in Rumaenien

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  • Author: Maria Sass
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • ISBN: 9783631766422
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

The collected volume presents an overview of the most significant dialogues between Romanian literature and European as well as world literature with respect to translation. Deploying various research methods, this book aims to provide a toolbox for the integration of the Romanian literary system in a regional and global frame.