Dance productions frequently draw on artistic precedents. Ballet companies rely on classics based on fairy and folk tales but audiences also enjoy an expanding repertoire of works based on a broader range of sources: art – The Green Table, The Rake’s Progress, A Simple Man; the Bible – Job, The Judas Tree, The Prodigal Son; film […]
This proposed panel seeks to present new and challenging perspectives on the history of the slave narrative genre. Recent studies have sought to recontextualize and/or reconsider the generic contours of the Anglo-American slave narrative. For example, Daphne Brooks has suggested the development of a “sonic slave narrative”; Nicole Aljoe and Ian Finseth have drawn attention
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The European History Section of the Southern Historical Association invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels for presentation at its annual meeting in St. Petersburg Beach, FL, November 2-5, 2016. Papers on any aspect period of European history, or European history in global, national, or comparative context are welcome. The program committee especially encourages full panel proposals
The Black Arts Movement was generated by the tumult of the 1980s – a decade defined as much by Thatcherism, civil unrest and race riots as by the rise of cultural theory and so-called ‘single issue’ social movements. It aimed to transform the nature and perception of British art and its histories. Under its banner,
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New Perspectives on Art Nouveau and Fin-de-Siècle Design College Art Association, 104th Annual Conference, Washington, DC February 3-6, 2016 Sponsored by the Design Studies Forum Much of our understanding of Art Nouveau rests on several well‐known aspects of its history: its simultaneous appearance around 1890 in several renowned centers of Western art, its ties to
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