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The Intellect Handbook of Dance Education Research
A review of dance education research methodologies with examples and exemplars from the field and an important resource for dance students professionals and advocates.
The editors recognized the need for a book of this type – one that would not only provide examples of a variety of dance education research projects but also present a broad look at methodologies. In addition the book would not only focus on Dance Education research in the U.S but more broadly with examples of dance research from several different countries. The curated book includes the voices of both seasoned professionals and newer scholars in the field with examples of dance research from a number of different countries. The contributions represent several countries including Korea South Africa United States of America Jamaica India United Kingdom Brazil and Slovenia underscore the global relevance and significance of research in dance education.
This book is divided into 5 parts. The first part focuses on dance education research and methodologies and is divided into three sections. With an introduction by Jill Green the chapters that follow provide an overview of research types including the more traditional qualitative quantitative and mixed and other methods such as portraiture and a/r/tography.
Part II introduced by Lynnette Young Overby includes examples of dance education research that incorporate qualitative quantitative and/or mixed methods. Three sections covering dance education research applications in the areas of history and culture dance teaching and choreography and community based research follow.
Part III of the Handbook of Dance Education Research provides insight into dance education that takes place in several countries. This part is introduced by Peter Cook Associate Deputy Chancellor Southern Cross University Australia. The collection of chapters within this part of the Handbook of Dance Education Research provides snapshots of research practices from contrasting international areas and with a variety of approaches and paradigms.
The final Part IV includes chapters focused on Social Justice dance education practice and research. This part is introduced by Alfdaniel Mivule Basibye Mabingo Makerere University Uganda. These chapters push the boundaries of dance education research to promote meaning and social change. They provide substantive examples of the impact dance education research can have in response to social and cultural issues.
This book will be a key resource for university students professors practitioners and policy makers in organizations and in school systems. It will inspire future dance education researchers to conduct research that is collaborative impactful inclusive and diverse– research that will solidify the place of dance as an integral part of each person’s education.

Well-Being and Creative Careers
What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick
There is a well-documented mental health crisis among media professionals around the world - in journalism advertising/marketing/PR film and television digital games music (recording and performance) and online content creation.
This book documents what is particular about well-being in creative careers in the media offers an analysis of systemic issues throughout the media industries that explain why so many practitioners get sick on the job and shows what can be done. The health crisis in the media industry consists of mental issues – with extraordinary high instances of anxiety trauma burnout and depression; physical ailments - prevalent substance abuse unhealthy living sleep problems and exhaustion; and spiritual problems – including people experiencing moral injury at work and suffering from a loss of morale.
At the same time most media professionals claim to be happy doing what they do suggesting that what makes people happy can also make them sick. What ends up causing work-related stress disorders is a combination of a lack of reciprocity between what people bring to the job and what the industry offers in return organizational injustice as people perceive policies and decisions at work to be discriminatory and unfair and persistent high workloads.

Photo Obscura
The Photographic in Post-Photography
Photo Obscura: The Photographic in Post-Photography discusses the profound transformation of post-photography. It argues post-photography is not merely a trend but a significant movement that redefines photography by integrating it with emerging technologies and creative practices resulting in works that may not even resemble photographs but still retain a photographic influence.
It is is structured around various themes including AI-generated images the intersection of digital and physical art forms and the changing relationship between visual representation and perception. Drawing on photo history media studies visual studies art history and the digital humanities and through discussions of specific artworks and artists it provides insights into how post-photography continues to evolve offering new ways to understand define and engage with the photographic image in the digital age. It highlights the influence of digital culture where the abundance of images and information has led to novel approaches in art that question the very nature of photography truth and reality. Still it maintains that despite this radical shift photography's influence remains central even when hidden or abstracted in the final work.

Removing the Educational Silos
Models of Interdisciplinary and Multi-disciplinary Education
This collection was written by educators who are engaging in multi- and interdisciplinary education and are led by curiosities encompassing the collaborative nature of cognitive and kinesthetic engagement and awareness.
The chapters are designed as sources for inspiration replication and adaptation. They are a place to start or continue. Each chapter in varying modalities addresses interdisciplinary course development and implementation in institutions of higher education. The common themes that emerge in the collection include navigating administrative systems and solving the challenges encountered when crossing departments or colleges whether it be regarding listing of courses or the intricacies of course load on each professor.
Many chapters also provide detailed information on the nuts and bolts of the specific course or courses taught including syllabi lesson examples and both formal and informal assessments implemented. Multiple case studies are included in this collection with many chapters providing specific examples of students’ work.
Contributors candidly offer discussions of failures and successes of their interdisciplinary collaborations be it in course design lesson planning or complications brought in by unforeseen pandemics. Most chapters end with a section entitled ‘Lessons learned’ where experiences from the field provide opportunities for growth and continued exploration.
Readers can follow the book from cover to cover or dip in finding the chapters that serve a particular project or teaching endeavour. The varying writing styles and topics are in direct relationship with the exact nature of the inspiration for this text. The over-arching themes of collaboration (diverse backgrounds ideas and skill sets multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity) are the consistent touchstones that create a thematic self-guided journey of exploration through the book.
The chapters offer readers guidance and encouragement to implement some of the approaches described and inspiration to forge their own paths in the world of multi- and interdisciplinary teaching and research. The depth and breadth of collaborative possibilities are exciting and the editors’ goal is to spark further experimentation.
An excellent and practical resource for any educator hoping to teach his or her subject matter through an interdisciplinary approach and for all courses revolving around topics of pedagogy. The key audience will be graduate students and teachers in all stages of education from primary to higher education.

Dystopian and Utopian Impulses in Art Making
The World We Want
Contemporary art has a complex relationship to crisis. On the one hand art can draw us toward apocalypse: it charts unfolding chaos reflects and amplifies the effects of crisis shows us the dystopian in both our daily life and in our imagined futures. On the other hand art’s complexity helps fathom the uncertainty of the world question and challenge the order of things and allows us to imagine new ways of living and being – to make new worlds.
This collection of written and visual essays includes artistic responses to various crises – including the climate emergency global and local inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic – and suggests new forms of collectivity and collaboration within artistic practice. It surveys a wide variety of practices oriented from the perspective of Australia New Zealand and Asia. Art making has always responded to the world; the essays in this collection explore how artists are adapting to a world in crisis.
The contributions to this book are arranged in four sections: artistic responses; critical reflections new curatorial approaches and the art school reimagined. Alongside the written chapters three photographic essays provide specific examples of new visual forms in artistic practice under crisis conditions.
The primary market for the book will be scholars and upper-level students of art and curating at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Specifically the book will appeal to the burgeoning field of study around socially engaged art.
Beyond the academic and student market it will appeal to practicing artists and curators especially those engaged in social practice and community-based art.

Ken Gonzales-Day
History’s “Nevermade”
This book which accompanies an exhibition by the same name addresses the life work of Ken Gonzales-Day a Los Angeles based artist scholar teacher and curator who explores race and place in his photographic and filmic works drawings and paintings as well as through his research. He achieves this through a fundamental focus on the body—as intersectionally identified place-making empowered or occluded—which he centralizes while (in some cases) literally erasing it. When we engage with his work we engage his body with our bodies; we experience or own situatedness our intersectionality as we position ourselves and are positioned in social space always in relations of power.
Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade” puts the artist’s major series of art works in context showing the deep political aesthetic and theoretical concerns through which he animates his practice and pointing to larger political issues in relation to which each series can be understood. The book is organized in a roughly chronological and thematic structure according to the major series of his work all of which overlap and interrelate. The sections are: Finding a Path (Early Work) Rethinking History (Family) Rethinking History (Archives) Collecting Race (Museums) Forging Community (Publics) Imaging Bodies (Portraits) Redrawing Boundaries (Land).

Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas
Transregional Dialogues and Manifestations
Architectural expressions resonant with Islamic traditions appear in diverse modes across the Americas from Andalusian-inspired colonial patios in Peru to the modern and contemporary patronage of immigrant communities in the United States and Canada. This volume examines the multiple manifestations of Islamic architecture that permeate the region’s built environment to invite an expanded framing of this architectural legacy via a hemispheric consideration of aesthetics narrative and patronage.
Chapters consider a broad range of topics from the migration of aesthetic traditions and construction techniques tied to the architectural forms of the Islamic world in the colonial “New World” to the direct contributions of modern and contemporary migrants in shaping a collective identity and the built environment.
By placing in productive dialogue sites that represent Islamic and Islamicate architecture across North and South America – two areas outside of the traditional conceptions of the Islamic world– this volume bridges transregional and transcultural gaps in the current literature.

Arts Education in Ireland
From Pedagogy to Practice
This book examines the distinctive nature of Arts Based Learning in Education (ABLE) in the context of a changing curriculum in Ireland. It draws on recent research on the state of the arts in Irish schools from early years primary schools post primary to higher education institutions.
The wide range of perspectives from pedagogy to practice draws on research in the visual arts literature and the arts within teacher education. Teacher identity formation and students’ perceptions of learning within the writers in school’s scheme are some of the themes within the book. It also includes examples of collaborative interdisciplinary practice between educational and cultural institutions. The book is situated within a rapidly changing curriculum policy framework and examines the relevance of arts-based learning against the backdrop of the drive for 21st century skills.

Fashion Projects
15 Years of Fashion in Dialogue
Fashion Projects: 15 Years of Fashion in Dialogue anthologizes the New York–based journal Fashion Projects. The book is an index of a particular time within the fashion studies landscape and the attendant fields of fashion writing fashion curation and critical fashion practice during which the field witnessed a meteoric rise.
The long-running non-profit journal Fashion Projects was described by The Paris Review as “a journal devoted to critical discourse in fashion” Fashion Projects was founded in New York in 2005 as a zine. It gradually morphed into a larger journal straddling the academic and general interest worlds with international distribution and an ardent readership. It served as a platform to highlight the importance of fashion within current critical discourses through longform interviews with a range of curators critics artists and designers. This book collects together the best articles from the journal most issues of which are now unavailable.
From exploring the rise of digital fashion media with Penny Martin (the founding editor-in-chief of SHOWstudio) to the continued importance of connoisseurship with Harold Koda (former Curator in Chief of the Met’s Costume Institute) the anthology records the increasing centrality of fashion to contemporary critical discourse.

Music, Research, and Activism
Prospects and Projects in Northern Europe
This book introduces the concept of activist music research emphasising action and social responsibility and suggests that music research can be used to promote social and ecological justice. This is discussed in a series of position papers by music researchers who engage in public debate in their various roles - educator critic journalist DJ producer promoter - and work with other actors in civil society and culture.
The book suggests that we are experiencing an activist turn in music research evidenced by the growing number of projects and publications discussing inequalities in musical practices and the impact music research can have on these inequalities. This idea is explored in a series of position papers and contemplative texts where music researchers music educators and artistic researchers reflect on how their work and the position they occupy as professionals in society serves eco-social justice and equity. What is the point of studying and teaching music in an age of ecocide neo(liberal)-colonialism rampant racial inequities persistent gender identity and sexual orientation discrimination? What does social and ecological responsibility and sustainability mean in music research?
The idea for the book was conceived within the context of Suoni a non-profit independent research association in Finland founded as a self-organizing and independent network for scholars interested in exploring methods pedagogics practices and action for eco-social equity in relation to music and music research.

Entrepreneurial Arts and Cultural Leadership
Traits of Success in Nonprofit Theatre
Traits is timely and needed. It provides a pathway to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset in nonprofit arts management students and in those in the nonprofit field. Traits is not another academic hypothetical imagining text. Rather Traits is a tactical centred on entrepreneurial leadership offering a concrete case example Imagination Stage.
2020 brought significant changes to the world’s business and social fabric. The nonprofit arts has been greatly impacted with the highest unemployment rate during the peak of the pandemic response to the slow and inconsistent return of patrons. Internally organizations had to address often long-over-due adaptations to the inclusive and accessible practices demanded by their communities including equitable pay scales diversity inclusion and access on stage staffs and boards.
Consequently many nonprofit arts organizations are now less viable; many have gone out of business; and most are struggling to adopt new post-pandemic practices that promote a new culture in their organization. The authors contend that those organizations that have survived are led by social entrepreneurs who were always ahead of the curve and able to adapt.
The authors’ underlying assumption is that while entrepreneurship may be innate in some in most it is not - even in those who lead organizations. But it can also be taught – just like any form of leadership. And this is what Traits does.

At the Movies, Film Reviewing, and Screenwriting
Selective Affinities and Cultural Mediation
This book examines film reviewing and screenwriting as key sites of cultural mediation providing new insights on the relationship between criticism and reviewing as well as the way reviewers handle concepts of story dialogue and narrative.
Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu on the cultural field and his theory of taste the book provides an assessment of the place of film reviewing in contemporary screen culture. The book analyses a case study comprised of ten years of television scripts of the Australian film reviewing programme At the Movies (2004–2014). Hosted by two of Australia’s most eminent film critics Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton for over two decades this study of At the Movies provides a unique window into film reviewing movie consumption and wider cultural attitudes in this period of Australian cultural history. It examines the programme’s cultural significance and the contribution of Margaret and David to screen culture.
This book makes a significant contribution to an under-studied area of media studies (the review) screenwriting research through the analysis of broadcast scripts and cultural studies through the study of an important television programme.

Men, War and Film
The Calling Blighty Films of World War II
The Calling Blighty series of films produced by the Combined Kinematograph Service produced towards the end of the Second World War were one-reel films in which soldiers gave short spoken messages to the camera as a means of connecting the front line and the home front. These are the first ever films where men speak openly in their regional accents and they have profound meaning for remembrance documentary representation and the ecology of film in wartime.
Of the 400 films (or ‘issues’) made 64 survive. Each of those contained around 25 individual messages. Men – and a very few women - from a particular city town or region were grouped together for the films to make regional screenings back in UK cinemas and town halls possible. Personnel from all three services are featured but the men are predominantly from the army units. Screenings took place at a cinema in the subjects’ local area and were usually organised by the regional Army Welfare Committee. The names and addresses of those to be invited to the screenings were sent to the UK along with the films.
Until now these films have barely been researched and yet are a valuable source of social history as well as representing a different mode from the mainstream of British wartime documentary. This book expands the history of Calling Blighty and places it in a broader context both past and present. New research reveals the origins of the film series and draws comparisons with written and oral contemporary sources.
Steve Hawley is an artist/filmmaker whose work has been screened worldwide and has collaborated closely with the North West Film Archive UK. He is emeritus professor at the Manchester Metropolitan University UK.
Using memoirs and diaries Steve Hawley has researched the roles in the Burma campaign of participants in the surviving films and traced over 160 of the families of the men – and two men still alive – and recreated these wartime screenings.
Hawley’s book is part description of the films part reclamation of a largely unknown genre of wartime filmmaking partly an account of the Burma campaign and partly a discussion of war and memory. Engagingly and warmly written.
It will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the areas of war studies especially those specializing in the social rather than military history of warfare and historians of British wartime cinema and documentary. Also useful for an undergraduate audience in history media/film studies.
Potential for readers with an interest in the Second World War particularly the war in Burma and those with an interest in family history of the period.

The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies
The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies attempts a comprehensive overview of methodological approaches within the field of popular music studies. Alongside contributions from key thinkers already established in popular music studies the strength of the collection lies in its inclusion of many new and emerging writers in the field. Therefore the collection incorporates a wide range of practitioners pedagogues and academics from an extensive range of disciplines and thus drawing from a diversity of methodological approaches. These include those that are perhaps more established such as semiotics ethnography and psychology alongside exciting new approaches within popular music including eco-musicology religion intersectionality and archeology. Although previous books have provided an overall of concepts studied within popular music studies this will be the first comprehensive Handbook of popular music methodologies.

Hip-Hop Archives
The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production
This book focuses on the culture and politics involved in building hip-hop archives. It addresses practical aspects including methods of accumulation curation preservation and digitization and critically analyzes institutional power community engagement urban economics public access and the ideological implications associated with hip-hop culture’s enduring tensions with dominant social values.
The collection of essays are divided into four sections; Doing the Knowledge Challenging Archival Forms Beyond the Nation and Institutional Alignments: Interviews and Reflections. The book covers a range of official unofficial DIY and community archives and collections and features chapters by scholar practitioners educators and curators.
A wide swath of hip-hop culture is featured in the book including a focus on dance graffiti clothing and battle rap. The range of authors and their topics span countries in Asia Europe the Caribbean and North America.

Make the Dream Real
World-Building Performance by El Vez, The Mexican Elvis
El Vez performances present a powerful message of social justice and inclusion in changing US and social contexts. Make the Dream Real interrogates how this message is activated through world-building: the use of a variety of theoretical theatrical and musical tactics that bring into being a progressive social space that refutes the current economic political social and cultural configurations of the United States.
World-building in an El Vez show “makes the dream real” by imagining a society in which equal rights are guaranteed inclusivity is fostered difference is valued and the violence of economic inequality is mitigated. But world-building through performance is not content to reside exclusively in the individual imagination or the social imaginary; it temporarily creates this new social space in actual time and space for the audience to experience. Using a dramaturgical methodology which marries theoretical inquiry to theatrical practice based on dramaturgical thinking critical proximity and intellectual flexibility the book delves into the theoretical foundations that inform artist Robert Lopez’s work and each chapter analyzes a different performative component he uses.
Make the Dream Real interrogates how El Vez’s playful engagements hold the United States to its egalitarian promises voicing and enacting - however fleetingly - a just and richly inclusive social space through performance.

Analyzing NES Music
Harmony, Form, and the Art of Technological Constraint
Faced with severe technological constraints on system memory composers of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sought ways to disguise repetition in music that repeats extensively. Their efforts gave rise to a set of compositional techniques for creating the illusion of variety.
This book distills these techniques into a theory of harmony and form for the analysis of NES music. It then uses this theory to analyze five landmark scores of the NES era: Super Mario Bros. Dragon Warrior Metroid Mega Man 2 and Silver Surfer. Both theory and analysis are scaffolded by a detailed description of the NES hardware and its attendant constraints highlighting the ever-evolving dialogue between technology commercial demand and artistic sensibility that characterizes video game music of the 1980s and 1990s.

Leigh Bowery
Performative Costuming and Live Art
An exploration of the life artistic practice social-historical context and cultural impact of Leigh Bowery. Vranou particularly considers Bowery's performative costuming and Live Art in relation to the ways they have influenced the broader spectrum of visual culture and the expanded field of performance studies.
Bowery’s cult status as an outrageously self-styled nightclub personality has obscured his significant contribution to performance studies and visual culture in favour of a justifiable discursive emphasis on his importance to fashion. The diversity of Bowery’s work and his marginality as an artist who emerged from a subcultural milieu complicated and thwarted his cultural value hindering as a consequence his incorporation into art institutions and performance narratives.
Through close analysis of Bowery’s key looks and non-theatrical performances the book examines the implications of his work in dominant histories of performance art and urgent discourses surrounding normativity representations of illness and body politics. It focuses on the performative dimension of Bowery’s costuming as an effective strategy for blurring the boundaries between art and life reflecting his aesthetics of freakishness and narcissistic desire his engagement in BDSM practices and the performance of extremity and the posttranssexual ethos behind his hybrid embodiments and trans-queer visual language.

Understanding Video Activism on Social Media
What political power do videos on social media have? In what ways do they exert influence shape publics and change political life? And how can committed civil society actors in this field assert themselves against hegemonic discourses commercial interests anti-democratic agitation and authoritarian propaganda? These questions are being debated intensely as social media increasingly dominate global information flows and videos increasingly dominate social media.
Understanding video activism seems particularly relevant at a time when the internet is undergoing fundamental disruptions. The forms practices and opportunities of activism depend on its media environment which now is changing rapidly and profoundly in terms of its technological basis ownership legal regulations and governmental control.

Urban Music Governance
What Busking Can Teach Us about Data, Policy and Our Cities
What happens when precarious urban cultural labourers take data collection laws and policymaking into their own hands? Buskers have been part of our cities for hundreds of years but they remain invisible to governments and in datasets. From nuisance to public art this cultural practice can help us understand the politics of data collection archives regulatory frameworks and urban planning. Busking also responds to underlying questions on the boundaries of the right to the city – and who has a voice in shaping how our cities are planned and governed.
A transnational exploration of street performance Urban Music Governance examines the intricate limits of legality data visibility and resistance from the perspective of those working at the social and regulatory margins of society. Based on a decade of fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and Montreal this book puts forward a lively account on why such an often-overlooked practice mattes today.
By investigating the role of busking in contemporary society Urban Music Governance presents an original interdisciplinary study that exposes how power dynamics in policymaking decide issues of access – and exclusion – around us above and below ground.