Author: Dustybear Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462842518 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 727
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I stood at the window . . . looking out.But, I couldnt make out what lay just on the other side. So it is, too . . . with The Plan we are about to embark on. What DOES lay . . . just beyond? Nobody knows . . . least of all, me. But, here we go.Here we go, like a pack of fools standing at the top of that precipice in the distance . . . and only feeling . . . the rush.
Author: Paul G. Cressey Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136478841 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 315
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First published in 2003. This is Volume II of eight in the Early Sociology of Culture collection and offers a sociological study on the commercialized recreation. Paul G. Cressey while serving as a case-worker and special investigator for the Juvenile Protective Association was requested during the summer of 1925 to report upon the new and then quite unfamiliar closed dance halls. This book is in a sense the outgrowth of those assignments.
Author: Christine Fletcher Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1599901641 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult.
Author: Carolyn Brown Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0307575608 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 997
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The long-awaited memoir from one of the most celebrated modern dancers of the past fifty years: the story of her own remarkable career, of the formative years of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and of the two brilliant, iconoclastic, and forward-thinking artists at its center—Merce Cunningham and John Cage. From its inception in the l950s until her departure in the l970s, Carolyn Brown was a major dancer in the Cunningham company and part of the vibrant artistic community of downtown New York City out of which it grew. She writes about embarking on her career with Cunningham at a time when he was a celebrated performer but a virtually unknown choreographer. She describes the heady exhilaration—and dire financial straits—of the company’s early days, when composer Cage was musical director and Robert Rauschenberg designed lighting, sets and costumes; and of the struggle for acceptance of their controversial, avant-garde dance. With unique insight, she explores Cunningham’s technique, choreography, and experimentation with compositional procedures influenced by Cage. And she probes the personalities of these two men: the reticent, moody, often secretive Cunningham, and the effusive, fun-loving, enthusiastic Cage. Chance and Circumstance is an intimate chronicle of a crucial era in modern dance, and a revelation of the intersection of the worlds of art, music, dance, and theater that is Merce Cunningham’s extraordinary hallmark.
Author: Tom Dalzell Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134194781 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 1120
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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. This informative, entertaining and sometimes shocking dictionary is an unbeatable resource for all language aficionados out there.
Author: Judith Lynne Hanna Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292744986 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 351
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Across America, strip clubs have come under attack by a politically aggressive segment of the Christian Right. Using plausible-sounding but factually untrue arguments about the harmful effects of strip clubs on their communities, the Christian Right has stoked public outrage and incited local and state governments to impose onerous restrictions on the clubs with the intent of dismantling the exotic dance industry. But an even larger agenda is at work, according to Judith Lynne Hanna. In Naked Truth, she builds a convincing case that the attack on exotic dance is part of the activist Christian Right’s “grand design” to supplant constitutional democracy in America with a Bible-based theocracy. Hanna takes readers onstage, backstage, and into the community and courts to reveal the conflicts, charges, and realities that are playing out at the intersection of erotic fantasy, religion, politics, and law. She explains why exotic dance is a legitimate form of artistic communication and debunks the many myths and untruths that the Christian Right uses to fight strip clubs. Hanna also demonstrates that while the fight happens at the local level, it is part of a national campaign to regulate sexuality and punish those who do not adhere to Scripture-based moral values. Ultimately, she argues, the naked truth is that the separation of church and state is under siege and our civil liberties—free speech, women’s rights, and free enterprise—are at stake.
Author: Joyce Hoffmann Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated ISBN: 030681059X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 450
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Staring back into another time -- Called to the colors -- Going against the grain -- Challenging the conventional wisdom -- Foreign journalists report the war -- The war on television -- A force of nature -- A place in history.
Author: Emmaly Wiederholt Publisher: ISBN: 9780998247809 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Beauty is Experience is a collaboration between dancer/writer Emmaly Wiederholt and photographer Gregory Bartning. For more than two years, they collected interviews and photographs of dancers over age 50 along the West Coast. Spanning from Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area to Portland and Seattle, the culmination includes over 50 interviews with dancers ranging in age from 50 to 95, and ranging in practice from ballet and Argentine tango to African and contact improvisation.
Author: M. T. Jefferson Publisher: Berkley ISBN: 9780425173107 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
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This brand-new mystery series set during World War II introduces Kate Fallon, who's got a beau fighting overseas and a passion for murder mysteries. Preparing for a local victory rally and dance, Kate finds the murdered body of a friend in lover's lane and helps put the friend's ex-boyfriend behind bars. Then two other murders occur.
Author: Dustybear
Author: Paul G. Cressey
Author: Susan Leigh Foster
Author: Christine Fletcher
Author: Carolyn Brown
Author: Tom Dalzell
Author: Judith Lynne Hanna
Author: Joyce Hoffmann
Author: Emmaly Wiederholt
Author: M. T. Jefferson