Books published by Harwood-Academic Publishers

This volume provides a portrait of George Balanchine and explores approaches to his choreography. Modernism in relation to choreography, the notion of Balanchine as an architect, his use of the waltz in ballets and his experiments with the African-American dance tradition are discussed.

This is an account of a search for ways to teach dance to the profoundly deaf in a variety of schools and settings. The author describes the methods and games she devised with the children to heighten their awareness of rhythm, music and the breath inherent in every dance movement.

This introduction to music therapy includes chapters on the biological and medical effects of music, and provides research evidence on the value of music in therapy and music in medicine. Other topics include music therapy techniques in psychiatry, paediatrics, and with the mentally handicapped.

In the years 1917 to 1991, despite unfavourable prevailing conditions, there were a number of achievements in the music created for the cinema in the Soviet Union. This volume attempts a historical analysis of Soviet film music and its place in world cinema.

This work comprises an anthology of plays written for the British group - Siren Theatre Company - a lesbian theatre collective founded in 1979 by women from the punk music scene who worked with their unorthodox performance skills to challenge mainstream traditions of "straight" acting.

This issue comprises the 25 papers presented at the Second Music and the Cognitive Sciences conference held at Cambridge University in 1990.

This volume focuses on "Saved and the Pope's Wedding", a radio production of "The Fool" (1990), "The Company of Men" (1993) and the television plays "Olly's Prison" (1992) and "Tuesday" (1993) and provides background information for both the student and the general reader.

Part of a series which presents developments in the field of economics, this volume focuses on government ownership and the regulation of economic activity. In particular, it provides a framework for discussing the behaviour of public enterprises as affected by markets and ministries.

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The period chosen for this study is that represented by the global domination of Hellenism, from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in the second half of the 4th century BCE until the seizure of the land by the Arabs in the 7th century CE.

A collection of the verbal language of dance practitioners and researchers. This work presents people in dance, what they do, their movement, their sound and the space in which they work - from the standpoint of performers, choreographers, audiences and teachers.

This study is an attempt to locate the practice of consumption within more general strategies of social self-definition. The essays in this volume are addressed to the understanding of consumption in terms of a larger matrix of social identity and the cultural strategies connected with it.

Takes a wide-ranging look at the new developments in music-making and musical aesthetics made possible by the advent of the computer and digital information processing.

This work brings together the Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian approaches in theatre by relating to the Palestinian theme as it appears in the Jewish-Israeli theatre and by attempting to characterize the Palestinian theatre in general.

This account, analysis and critical evaluation of the work of Adolphe Appia (1862-1928) demonstrates how his far-sighted imagination embraced the fundamental reform of scenic design, the use of theatrical space, and an expanded conception of the nature and possibilities of theatrical art.

A collection of essays which discuss various aspects of the work of Merce Cunningham - creative artist and choreographer. Contributors include; Joan Acocella, Elliot Caplan, William Fetterman, John Holzaepfel, Gordon Mumma, Nelson Rivera, Thecla Schiphorst, David Vaughan and Marilyn Vaughan Drown.