Tag: Curving

Free Download Nandini Sikand, "Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances: The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance "
English | ISBN: 1785333682 | 2016 | 234 pages | PDF | 1442 KB
Widely believed to be the oldest Indian dance tradition, odissi has transformed over the centuries from a sacred temple ritual to a transnational genre performed―and consumed―throughout the world. Building on ethnographic research in multiple locations, this book charts the evolution of odissi dance and reveals the richness, rigor, and complexity of the form as it is practiced today. As author and dancer-choreographer Nandini Sikand shows, the story of odissi is ultimately a story of postcolonial India, one in which identity, nationalism, tradition, and neoliberal politics dramatically come together.

Free Download Halliki Harro-Loit, Katrin Kello, "The Curving Mirror of Time"
English | 2013 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 9949322596 | PDF | 8,8 mb
The Curving Mirror of Time aims to explore the configuration of the ‘everyone knows’ phenomenon in our daily practices: time, commemoration and news journalism.

Free Download Ian Penman, "It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track"
English | 2019 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 1804270113, 1910695874 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home. WithIt Gets Me Home, This Curving Track, legendary music critic Ian Penman reaches for a vanished moment in musical history when cultures collided and a certain kind of cross-generational and ‘cross-colour’ awareness was born. His cast of characters includes the Mods, James Brown, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, John Fahey, Steely Dan and Prince – black artists who were innovators, and white musicians who copied them for the mainstream. In "prose that glides and shimmies and pivots on risky metaphors, low puns and highbrow reference points" (Brian Dillon,frieze), Ian Penman’s first book in twenty years is cause for celebration.