PERFORMING ARTS / Reference

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This study blends close reading with corpus-assisted methods to examine how English mediates culture, gender, and identity in Mahesh Dattani’s drama. Using a curated, labelled corpus drawn from six plays like Dance Like a Man, Tara, Bravely Fought the Queen, On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Seven Steps Around the Fire, and Thirty Days in September, the study attempts to analyse 38 dialogue excerpts (922 words; 362-type v…

Reference · Wikidata

academic journal covering all aspects of the management and use of music collections and services in academic, orchestra, public, conservatory, and performing/fine arts libraries, as well as archives and museums

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its list of the greates…

Image · Europeana

Book · DOAB

This book examines the nature of musical performance. In it, Dorottya Fabian explores the contributions and limitations of some of these approaches to performance, be they theoretical, cultural, historical, perceptual, or analytical. Through a detailed investigation of recent recordings of J. S. Bach's Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, she demonstrates that music performance functions as a complex dynamical …

Full text · Open Library