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K-Pop: The Ultimate Fan Book is your essential guide to all the bands, songs and styles behind the most diverse and exciting genre in pop music today. 2018 was a breakout year for K-Pop (Korean Pop) on the global stage, with boy-band BTS reaching number 1 in the UK...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2025-06-12
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Channel your inner brat through Charli XCX’s own words of wisdomFrom playing at raves in London with her parents at fifteen to the global phenomenon of Brat, Charli XCX has always carved out her own space in the pop world.In this book you’ll find Charli’s unique...
Editeur :
Dk
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2025-05-27
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The face contributes a vital, yet often overlooked, component of dance performance. Facial Choreographies: Performing the Face in Popular Dance examines what the face does in dance and what it may mean. Author Sherril Dodds focuses on popular presentational dance, which...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-11-28
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*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!*Champion dancer and Strictly Come Dancing professional Johannes Radebe has captured our hearts with his mesmerising talent, bringing joy to millions of fans and wowing the most critical of judges. He is loved not only for his...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2023-09-07
ePub
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'We come for the glitter, but instead we get the grit, in stories told with insight, tenderness and joy.' - Russell T DaviesWith a foreword by Steph McGovern'I never thought I'd write a memoir. I never thought I'd do a lot of the things I have done in my thirty-four...
Editeur :
Kyle Books
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2023-08-24
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Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. Author Christi Jay Wells shows how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-04-02
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'I will always believe in the strength we have as women.' As the queen of pop music since the glory days of Destiny's Child to her incredible solo career, Beyoncé is one of the most inspiring and powerful women in music. The Little Book of Queen Bey is a collection of...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-10-03
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Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-01
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She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-11
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Watching Weimar Dance asks what audiences saw on stages from cabaret and revue to concert dance and experimental theatre in the turbulent moment of the Weimar Republic. Spectator reports that performers died or became half-machine archive not only the physicality of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-17
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While Jews are commonly referred to as the "people of the book," American Jewish choreographers have consistently turned to dance as a means to articulate personal and collective identities; tangle with stereotypes; advance social and political agendas; and imagine new...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-05-02
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In Kinesthetic City, author SanSan Kwan explores the contentious nature of Chineseness in diaspora through the lens of moving bodies as they relate to place, time, and identity. She locates her study in five Chinese urban sites--Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, New York's...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-12-19
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Armed with an eighth-grade education, an inexhaustible imagination, and an innate talent for dancing, Hermes Pan (1909-1990) was a boy from Tennessee who became the most prolific, popular, and memorable choreographer of the glory days of the Hollywood musical. While he...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-06-08
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Often called the Picasso, Stravinsky, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham revolutionized ballet stages across the globe. Using newly discovered archival sources, award-winning choreographer and dance historian Mark Franko reframes Graham's most...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-06-05
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Better Late Than Never is the extraordinary true story of how a man born into poverty in London's East End went on to find stardom late in life when he was chosen to be head judge on BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing. Len Goodman tells all about his new-found fame, his...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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