Author: Cathy Park Hong Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0393333116 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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Adrienne Rich chose Cathy Park Hong's "audacious" (Los Angeles Times) second book as the winner of the 2006 Barnard Women Poets Prize. Named one of the Los Angeles Times's Best Science Fiction Books in 2007, Dance Dance Revolution is a genre-bending tour de force told from the perspective of the Guide, a former dissident and tour guide of an imagined desert city.
Author: Elizabeth B. Schwall Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469662981 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 319
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Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance in ballet, modern dance, and folkloric dance, Schwall analyzes how and why dance artists interacted with republican and, later, revolutionary politics. Drawing on written and visual archives, including intriguing exchanges between dancers and bureaucrats, Schwall argues that Cuban dancers used their bodies and ephemeral, nonverbal choreography to support and critique political regimes and cultural biases. As esteemed artists, Cuban dancers exercised considerable power and influence. They often used their art to posit more radical notions of social justice than political leaders were able or willing to implement. After 1959, while generally promoting revolutionary projects like mass education and internationalist solidarity, they also took risks by challenging racial prejudice, gender norms, and censorship, all of which could affect dancers personally. On a broader level, Schwall shows that dance, too often overlooked in histories of Latin America and the Caribbean, provides fresh perspectives on what it means for people, and nations, to move through the world.
Author: Frans Mäyrä Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 1473902924 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 415
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An Introduction to Game Studies is the first introductory textbook for students of game studies. It provides a conceptual overview of the cultural, social and economic significance of computer and video games and traces the history of game culture and the emergence of game studies as a field of research. Key concepts and theories are illustrated with discussion of games taken from different historical phases of game culture. Progressing from the simple, yet engaging gameplay of Pong and text-based adventure games to the complex virtual worlds of contemporary online games, the book guides students towards analytical appreciation and critical engagement with gaming and game studies. Students will learn to: - Understand and analyse different aspects of phenomena we recognise as ′game′ and play′ - Identify the key developments in digital game design through discussion of action in games of the 1970s, fiction and adventure in games of the 1980s, three-dimensionality in games of the 1990s, and social aspects of gameplay in contemporary online games - Understand games as dynamic systems of meaning-making - Interpret the context of games as ′culture′ and subculture - Analyse the relationship between technology and interactivity and between ′game′ and ′reality′ - Situate games within the context of digital culture and the information society With further reading suggestions, images, exercises, online resources and a whole chapter devoted to preparing students to do their own game studies project, An Introduction to Game Studies is the complete toolkit for all students pursuing the study of games. The companion website at www.sagepub.co.uk/mayra contains slides and assignments that are suitable for self-study as well as for classroom use. Students will also benefit from online resources at www.gamestudiesbook.net, which will be regularly blogged and updated by the author. Professor Frans Mäyrä is a Professor of Games Studies and Digital Culture at the Hypermedia Laboratory in the University of Tampere, Finland.
Author: Cathy Park Hong Publisher: W. W. Norton ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 136
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The mixture of imagination, language, and historical consciousness in this book is marvelous.--Adrienne Rich, Barnard Women Poets Prize citation
Author: Source Wikipedia Publisher: University-Press.org ISBN: 9781230509419 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2 Limited Edition Music Sampler, Dance Dance Revolution Extreme Limited Edition Music Sampler, Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2 Limited Edition Music Sampler, Music of Dance Dance Revolution (1998 video game), Music of Dance Dance Revolution (2009 video games), Music of Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMix, Music of Dance Dance Revolution Extreme, Music of Dance Dance Revolution X. Excerpt: The music of Dance Dance Revolution Extreme is a greatest hits of sorts across the Dance Dance Revolution series as well as the entire Bemani franchise. The 240 song soundtrack is composed largely of Konami Originals, in-house music written and performed by Konami staff. It also contains many licensed tracks from Toshiba EMI's Dancemania catalog giving DDR Extreme one of the largest soundtracks of any DDR game to date. The arcade release of Dance Dance Revolution Extreme contains 240 tracks, most of them revivals from previous Dance Dance Revolution games. Songs that are not initially available for play are represented with a padlock icon and are only accessible through the use of codes entered into the game's operator menu. The song "Legend of Max" appears on the end credits when the songs are locked. The PlayStation 2 release of Dance Dance Revolution Extreme contains 111 tracks. In the same vein as the arcade release, the PlayStation 2 release contains a number of popular songs from past games which is uncommon in Japanese console releases. New to the series songs are in green, songs from other Bemani series are in yellow, songs originally from Dance Dance Revolution Solo are in purple, songs from previous DDR games are in blue, and Boss songs are in red. New Konami Originals that are not on the arcade soundtrack receive special coloring: DDR Originals are in pink, while BEMANI crossover songs are in...
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