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  • TOBY KEITH

    A VOICE OF THE PEOPLE - INSPIRING THE HEARTLAND

    by JERRY Y. DUMONT ...
    In "Toby Keith: A Voice of the People, Inspiring the Heartland," readers are taken on an intimate journey into the life and career of one of country music's most legendary individuals. Toby Keith, known for his powerful vocals, patriotic songs, and steadfast loyalty to his heritage, tells his experience with real honesty and riveting detail.From his humble beginnings in Oklahoma to his ... Read more

    PHP412.61 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance

    Edited by Naomi M. Jackson, Rebecca Pappas, Toni Shapiro-Phim ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Responding to recent evolutions in the fields of dance and religious and secular studies, The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance documents and celebrates the significant impact of Jewish identity on a variety of communities and the dance world writ large. Focusing on North America, Europe, and Israel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this Handbook highlights the sometimes ... Read more

    PHP10,643.69

  • The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

    Edited by Peter Harrop, Steve Roud ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history.Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times ... Read more

    PHP3,880.08

  • Fraught Balance

    The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria

    by Shayna M. Silverstein ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    Winner of The de la Torre Bueno First Book Prize® (2025) from Dance Studies AssociationWinner of the Dance, Movement, and Gesture Kealiinohomoku Award, granted by SEM (Society for Ethnomusicology)Winner of the 2025 AMEWS Book Award, presented by the Association for Middle East Women's StudiesHonorable mention for ICTMD Book Prize, granted by the International Council for Traditions of Music and ... Read more

    PHP975.29

  • Det dobbelte teater

    by Antonin Artaud ...
    Translated by Klaus Hoffmeyer ...
    Antoine Artauds mesterværk "Det dobbelte teater" har skabt grundlaget for det moderne absurde franske teater, det totale teater. Bogen er en samling af artikler, foredrag, manifester og breve, og den rummer blandt andet det verdenskendte manifest "Grusomhedens teater" fra 1932. I manifestet vender Artaud sig fra det traditionelle teater som en institution for passiv underholdning. I stedet ... Read more

    PHP620.49

  • Creativity: Get Going

    Creativity: Power of Commitment, #1

    by Morwenna Assaf ...
    Series Book 1 - Creativity: Power of Commitment
    This is the first book in the series Creativity: Power of Commitment. This is a book of daily exercises at a Beginner level that takes 3 months. Be as creative as you can. Ideas for that creativity and also how to not get overwhelmed with the belly dance scene. Lots of business ideas are here too. Take your business to its fullest and let your passion for the dance shine.This book is written for ... Read more

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  • Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing

    An Historical and Ethnographic Perspective

    by John Gibson ...
    Series Book 43 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
    The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. Gaelic Cape Breton ... Read more

    PHP2,622.29

  • The Matachines Dance

    A Ritual Dance of the Indian Pueblos and Mexicano/Hispano Communities

    by Sylvia Rodriguez ...
    The Matachines dance is a ritual drama performed on certain saint's days in Pueblo Indian and Mexicano/Hispano communities along the upper Río Grande valley in New Mexico and elsewhere in the American Southwest. It derives from a genre of medieval European folk dramas symbolizing conflict between Christians and Moors. Spaniards brought it to the Americas as a vehicle for Christianizing the Indians ... Read more

    PHP387.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Styling Blackness in Chile

    Music and Dance in the African Diaspora

    by Juan Eduardo Wolf ...
    Chile had long forgotten about the existence of the country's Black population when, in 2003, the music and dance called the tumbe carnaval appeared on the streets of the city of Arica. Featuring turbaned dancers accompanied by a lively rhythm played on hide-head drums, the tumbe resonated with cosmopolitan images of what the African Diaspora looks like, and so helped bring attention to a ... Read more

    PHP1,111.29

  • Les rituels sacrés (Theyyams) au pays des dieux

    Les rituels sacrés (Theyyams)

    by Saji Madapat, Tiger Rider ...
    Translated by Claire RC ...
    Ce livreest la mémoire écrite d'une culture oubliée et des communautés qui l'entourent. Le Theyyam est une forme d'art rituel dravidien du Kerala, en Inde - le pays des dieux. Il donne des informations détaillées à propos du Theyyam, propose de magnifiques images et des centaines d'histoires.Nous le dédions aux artistes de Theyyam, les véritables dieux du peuple, par le peuple et pour le peuple ... Read more

    PHP584.59

  • European and Middle Eastern Folk Dance

    by Andrew Carnie ...
    European and Middle Eastern Folk Dance is an accessible and engaging guide to one of the world's most vibrant forms of cultural expression. Designed for university students, community dancers, and anyone curious about traditional dance, this textbook provides a broad survey of the folk dance traditions of Europe, Western Asia (the Middle East), and neighboring regions, while also introducing the ... Read more

    PHP1,170.39

  • El Carnaval de Cádiz

    Un giornalismo cantato

    by Anna Cristini ...
    Series Book 1 - Bookmoon Saggi
    Il carnevale di Cadice è un carnevale diverso da qualsiasi altro: qualcuno afferma che è una prova generale della rivoluzione. A tutti gli effetti è una forma di comunicazione di massa irriverente, politicamente scorretta, e allo stesso tempo efficace e amata dal popolo. Racchiude più di un secolo di storia, nella cornice della bella città andalusa, e Anna Cristini in questo saggio la racconta da ... Read more

    PHP286.35

  • Mosaic of Music

    Mystery of Percussion and Dance

    by Morwenna Assaf, Walid Assaf ...
    This book is not just for the student, teaher or performer of belly-dance. It is also for the stuednt, teacher or performer of Middle Eastern drum. The DERBECKI, TAR, TAMBOURINE, KATAM, and TUBL BELEDI! You ,ay be the hysband, partner of a belly dancer that wants to be part of the scene.It is about what each other needs to know about the rhythm and musuc and how they relate to belly dancing and ... Read more

    PHP430.57

  • Creativity: Find Your Stride

    Creativity: Power of Commitment, #2

    by Morwenna Assaf ...
    Series Book 2 - Creativity: Power of Commitment
    This is the second book in the series Creativity: Power of Commitment. This is a book of daily exercises at an Intermediate level that takes 3 months. Be as creative as you can. Ideas for that creativity and also how to not get overwhelmed with the belly dance scene. Lots of business ideas are here too. Take your business to its fullest and let your passion for the dance shine.This book is written ... Read more

    PHP184.18

  • The Experience of Theater Dance for Belly Dancers

    by Morwenna Assaf ...
    The Experience of Theater Dance The Experience of Theater Dance for Middle Eastern Dance Studies *Belly Dance*The experience of dance in theaters for Middle Eastern dance studies. Learn the right things to know. A great study for ethnic dancers who want to perform in theaters and small stage productions. ... Read more

    PHP368.97

  • Funny Moves

    Dance Humor Politics

    Edited by Marta E. Savigliano, Hannah Schwadron ...
    Funny Moves: Dance Humor Politics explores the intersection of dance and humor and the political stakes that bodies incur when they dare to be both aestheticized and funny. The editors posit that funny moves are dance's Other--the missteps or oversteps that don't fit a particular dance form. Funniness in dance, whether gleeful, surprising, or odd, causes disruptions which may be progressive or ... Read more

    PHP2,272.49

  • Ancient English Morris Dance

    by Archaeopress Publishing ...
    The idea that morris dancing captures the essence of ancient Englishness, inherently carefree and merry, has been present for over four hundred years. The Ancient English Morris Dance traces the history of those attitudes, from the dance's introduction to England in the fifteenth century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, during which morris dancing and maypoles became ... Read more

    PHP2,231.89

  • Lengua y producción dancística valenciana

    by Isabel Aznar Collado ...
    En este libro se muestra el lenguaje del movimiento en las danzas folklóricas valencianas: Les Danses y la Dansà. Se profundiza en la importancia de transmitir este discurso dancístico a las futuras generaciones para que sea entendido en su contexto concreto. En esta publicación se realiza un análisis descriptivo de estas danzas y se reflexiona sobre los elementos básicos que componen la ... Read more

    PHP542.68

  • Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician

    Learning and Embodying Musical Culture

    by Jessica Cawley ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Coupling the narratives of twenty-two Irish traditional musicians alongside intensive field research, Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician explores the rich and diverse ways traditional musicians hone their craft. It details the educational benefits and challenges associated with each learning practice, outlining the motivations and obstacles learners experience during musical development. By ... Read more

    PHP4,003.28

  • 100 motius per estimar la sardana

    by Jordi Saura, Jaume Nonell, Vicenç Villatoro ...
    El llibre explora la sardana des de diferents perspectives. A través dels cinc apartats en què els autors l'han dividit, es poden seguir des dels aspectes més bàsics, com són els coreogràfics i musicals o els instruments de la cobla, amb les seves tipologies i evolucions, fins al vessant social o la presència de la sardana i la cobla en àmbits com la literatura, el cinema o la ràdio. Els autors no ... Read more

    PHP639.00

  • Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture

    by Natália Pikli ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s.Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and ... Read more

    PHP3,756.88

  • The Celestial Dancers

    Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage

    by Amit Sarwal ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur’s Hindu dances in Australia.Tradition has it that the people of Manipur, a northeastern state of India, are descended from the celestial gandharvas, dance and music blessed among them as a God’s gift. The intricately symbolic Hindu dances of Manipur in their original religious ... Read more

    PHP1,785.74

  • Folk-dancing as a Popular Recreation: A Handbook

    by Elizabeth Burchenal ...
    "Miss Burchenal is the best-known American exponent and teacher of the folk-dance." -The Survey"Elizabeth Burchenal has won wide recognition for her celebration of folk dancing." -The Little PaperAs Elizabeth Burchenal notes in her 1922 book "Folk Dancing As A Popular Recreation," folk dancing has great and worthy purposes to serve; it is a pure and fundamental art form, and as such should be ... Read more

    PHP60.98 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • El Tango Milonguero,un abrazo kinestesico

    by Sergio López ...
    ¿Qué sucede realmente en la profundidad de un abrazo milonguero? Más allá de los pasos y la música, existe un código invisible que permite que dos cuerpos se conviertan en una sola unidad de movimiento.En esta obra, Sergio López —milonguero,abogado e investigador del tango— propone un enfoque revolucionario sobre la danza social del Río de la Plata. Despojado de artificios escénicos, el autor se ... Read more

    PHP615.37 or Free with Kobo Plus