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Uday Shankar and His Transcultural Experimentations

Urmimala Sarkar Munsi

This monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer / choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b – 1977d). His popularity in Europe and America as an Oriental male dancer in the...



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A History of East African Theatre, Volume 2

Jane Plastow

This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda alongside a...



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Theatre Across Oceans

Nic Leonhardt

Theatre Across Oceans: Mediators Of Transatlantic Exchange allows the reader to enter and understand the infrastructural 'backstage area' of global cultural mobility during the years between 1890 and 1925. Located within the research fields of global history and theory,...



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Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716–1723

Matthew J. Mcmahan

How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian’s work?How do performers adapt? What gets lost (and found) in translation? Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716-1723 explores these questions in an...



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The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage

Rashna Darius Nicholson

The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asia’s most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian cinema industry. By providing extensive, unpublished information...



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A History of East African Theatre, Volume 1

Jane Plastow

This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region. Covering nine nations in two volumes, the project covers a hundred years of theatre making across Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.This volume...



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Theatre and Music in Manila and the Asia Pacific, 1869-1946

Melê Yamomo

This book examines the intersection between sound and modernity in dramatic and musical performance in Manila and the Asia-Pacific between 1869 and 1948. During this period, tolerant political regimes resulted in the globalization of capitalist relations and the...



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Theatre, Globalization and the Cold War

Christopher B. Balme , Berenika Szymanski-Düll

This book examines how the Cold War had a far-reaching impact on theatre by presenting a range of current scholarship on the topic from scholars from a dozen countries. They represent in turn a variety of perspectives, methodologies and theatrical genres, including not...



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