Performance Studies

Flash and Crash Days

Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period
David George 

Flash and Crash Days deals with the theatre produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially its postmodernist directors, women playwrights and theatre companies. It addresses the following questions: Did the thriving stage of the 1950s and 1960s wither during the reign of terror in the early 1970s, unleashed in the wake of the 1968 state of siege declared by the generals? Did the return to civilian government fail to create conditions for a new theatre? This book examines how the absence of censorship, on the one hand, and the exigencies of protest and ideological purity on the other have given rise to a variety of theatrical modes which Brazil has never experienced in the past, allowing all voices the opportunity to be heard.

Published July 2000: 216 x 140
Hb: 0-8153-3360-9: | Pb: 0-8153-3839-2:

Gaetano Donizetti
A Guide to Research

James P Cassaro

This provides a guide to the rich and vast amount of scholarly writings on the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). While the literature concentrates predominantly on the composer's stage works, this volume also includes works in other genres such as instrumental, symphonic, and vocal chamber music. Books, articles, dissertations in most languages, critical editions, and commercial audio and video recordings are included. It is designed to be as useful to the beginning researcher as it is to the more experienced scholar.

Composer - Resource Manuals

Published August 2000: 216 x 140
Hb: 0-8153-2350-6

Garland Handbook of Latin American Music

Edited by Dale A. Olsen, Florida State University, USA and Daniel Sheehy, National Endowment for the Arts, USA

This collection of articles provides a comprehensive overview of the musics of Latin America, covering such regions and cultures as Warao, Qero, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic and many others. Written by a team of leading scholars, including :Anthony Seeger, Ercilia Moreno Cha, Suzel Ana Reily, Gerard Behagye and Max H. Brandt, this handbook is an authoritative and accessible introduction to one of the most popular musics in the world. Includes a 73 minute audio CD of commercially unavailable recordings.

Audio CD included

Published October 2000: 279 x 216: illus.129 b+w photos and 10 maps CD + Pb Pack: 0-8153-3833-3: