Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

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Through the concept of “social choreography” Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringing dance history and critical theory together, he shows that ideology needs to be understood as something embodied and practiced, not just as an abstract form of consciousness. Linking dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement—such as walking, stumbling, and laughter—to historical ideals of social order, he provides a powerful exposition of Marxist debates about the relation of ideology and aesthetics.

Hewitt focuses on the period between the mid-nineteenth century and the early twentieth and considers dancers and social theorists in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States. Analyzing the arguments of writers including Friedrich Schiller, Theodor Adorno, Hans Brandenburg, Ernst Bloch, and Siegfried Kracauer, he reveals in their thinking about the movement of bodies a shift from an understanding of play as the condition of human freedom to one prioritizing labor as either the realization or alienation of embodied human potential. Whether considering understandings of the Charleston, Isadora Duncan, Nijinsky, or the famous British chorus line the Tiller Girls, Hewitt foregrounds gender as he uses dance and everyday movement to rethink the relationship of aesthetics and social order.

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A Cool Book.......2002-05-10

If you like chines words you would like this book. I think this book is cool and I like it.

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hope this wont ruin the suprise. I wont tell you the ending!.......2006-02-12

This is my favorite book of all five books I have.You see it starts out with a couple skating competition that Ranma and Akane are in. Exept not only are they doing this to prove that Ranma can do any materials arts (even skating!) they also compete for the cute pig side of Ryoga who was captured by this new character (I forgot what her name was) during the time Akane was skating in the ice rink in volume 2.The new girl (who when ever finds something cute picks it up and names it)is also competing for what she calls the cute pig side of Ryoga Charrelote! Akane being mad at the fact gets into the competition. But during the competition there is a black out! I don't want to ruin the surprise and tell you the rest so i geuss you will have to figure out yourself buy it I'm sure you will love it . Oh! and it also has the first apperence of Shampoo! The kick butt chinese chick!

Enter Shampoo.......2006-01-06

Just when it seems that things are going right for Ranma Saotome, they promptly go wrong again.

That's the way it is with the entrance of one of Rumiko Takahashi's most popular characters, the won't-take-no-for-an-answer Amazon Shampoo. The third volume of "Ranma 1/2" has Ranma and Akane reaching a new level of interest in each other.... only to have Shampoo shatter it.

The day dawns for the martial-arts skating competition, and Ranma is more determined than ever to beat womanizing Mikado Sanzenin (who gave him his first kiss in the previous volume). But Ranma is given a savage beating that almost kills him -- and soon Ryoga/P-chan/Charlotte has entered the rink, determined to beat the figure skaters as well.

No sooner have Ranma and Akane gotten off the rink than a new problem arises: A Chinese girl batters through a wall, announcing "Ranma, I kill!" She's Shampoo, a Chinese Amazon whom Ranma defeated in one-on-one combat in China. Now Shampoo won't be satisfied until (female) Ranma is dead.

But when she encounters Ranma in his male form, and he accidently defeats her, Shampoo falls in love with him. Now Akane is seething with jealousy, and Ranma is trying to evade a new fiancee who wants him as a guy -- and wants him dead as a girl. Even worse, Shampoo's devotion to her new "groom" extends to giving Akane selective amnesia -- she remembers everything except Ranma.

Before this volume of "Ranma 1/2," the romantic problems were pretty straightforward, and the only rival was a guy who is too shy to say how he feels. But with the arrival of Shampoo, the tangled web of love starts to form -- and poor Ranma is stuck right in the middle of it.

There's more romance than martial-arts in this volume, despite the long-awaited skating match. Poor Ranma is being pursued romantically by a womanizing skater and a deranged Amazon, and it's rapidly becoming a lot more than his limited skills can handle. And only Ranma could pull off a little frilly skating dress.

Romantics will get a few thrills in this volume: Ranma threatens Mikado for saying that he'll kiss Akane, and later vows that he will make sure Akane remembers him. And when Akane takes her jealous frustrations about Ranma out on a straw dummy, she remembers his threat, and them gently hugs the dummy.

Romantic problems get more intense in the third volume of "Ranma 1/2," with the arrival of Shampoo, Fiancee No. 2. And things only get more complex later on....

Enter Shampoo.......2005-10-26

One of the best volumes of one of the best manga series, ever........2005-10-04

Living in Japan comes with numerous perks. First off, I can brush up on my marginally acceptable Japanese-speaking skills, but I also have access to some things that I just couldn't get enough of anywhere else. Well, Ranma 1/2 lurks near the top of that list.

Rumiko Takahashi, arguably one of the best and most creative writers of manga in history, presents us with the longest-running series of her impressive resume - the story of a teenaged martial arts master, Ranma Saotome, and his irresponsible trainer and father, Genma. Genma takes him to Jusenkyo, a collection of hot springs in China. If only Genma had known how to read Chinese, he would have known that the springs afflict those who fall into them with evil and seemingly irreversible curses - as Ranma and Genma unwittingly duel it out atop bamboo poles high over the springs, Ranma kicks his father into "The Spring of Drowned Giant Panda" ... surprise, out jumps a Giant Panda, ready to resume fighting. Bewildered, Ranma is hit by the panda into "The Spring of Drowned Young Girl", and meets the surface with the curse that haunts his life - you see, once Genma and Ranma make contact with cold water, Genma becomes a panda, and Ranma becomes a female version of himself. Not to completely worry though, because hot water will bring them back to normal every time. But that's only the beginning of the story. Genma trained with a man called Soun Tendo, the father of three teenage girls - Genma and Soun agreed to marry Ranma with one of his girls. The money-grabbing Nabiki and the impossibly-kind Kasumi, the elder sisters, elect the unwilling boy-hating Akane to become fiancees with this "hentai otoko", and this is the rocky start to the relationship that the series revolves around.

Having already read the entire Ranma 1/2 series, I can honestly say that the third book (fourth in Japan, somehow) was one of the best. It begins with the continuation of the ice-skating competition, with not only one, but TWO of the cutest scenes you'll ever see, plus a great appearance by Ryoga, who is lovestruck with Akane. It's after the competition ends that we're introduced to the sexy Chinese Amazon warrior girl, Shampoo. Female Ranma defeated Shampoo in a tournament of sorts while he was back in China. That's wonderful and all, but the only problem is that Shampoo gives "The Kiss of Death" to all females who defeat her - it's the vow that she'll hunt them down and kill them, whatever it takes. Well, she's followed Ranma into Japan, and now he's on the run again. Just one thing - she has never seen the male-version Ranma. He ends up defeating her as well. Expecting the worst, the terrified Ranma is pushed into another "Kiss of Death", but, somehow, this one is a bit different: Shampoo kisses him on the lips, and means it. The other half of Shampoo's vows are that if a male defeats her, she vows to marry him. And with that, Shampoo is trying to kill one half of Ranma, while trying desperately to seduce the other half. The irony here is obvious and hilarious, and it's situations like these that Rumiko Takahashi has the ability to work with flawlessly.

As you can imagine, Akane (although she won't admit it) is quite jealous and annoyed by Shampoo's advances towards her fiancee - and although Ranma and Akane would rather die than admit any sort of more-than-platonic feelings for each other, we can start to see the sweet silhouette of some sort of attraction between them when Akane meets her first rival suitor for Ranma. Akane, being the violent tomboy, picks a fight with Shampoo. Ranma realizes that Akane is no match for Shampoo, so he comes to her rescue to find her lying on the ground - she wakes up with part of her memory gone - the part of her memory that has anything to do with Ranma, that is. Of course it's Shampoo's wily tricks that did this to her, and Ranma is determined to find the '911' formula shampoo that will bring her memory back. He ends up successful in bringing Akane's memory back, and all is well for everyone. Well, except for Shampoo. It's then that she discovers the shocking secret that Ranma keeps, and is devastated. She leaves (presumably for China) with tears in her eyes ... but distance makes the heart grow fonder, as they say.

If you're as in love with this series as I am, you must read on, it's definitely worth it. The beginning is all about introducing main characters and building the foundations of their relationship with everyone else, but as we progress through the story, the relationships start to develop and Rumiko Takahashi can leave us all with endearing smiles on our faces at this very sweet, hilarious, and exciting action-packed romantic-comedy.

The series continues with another excellent story.......2005-08-14

Ranma 1/2 (1988.) An anime/manga series by Rumiko Takahashi.

INTRODUCTION:
Over the years I have been a pretty big anime fan. I'm not one of the people who obsesses over Japanese animation and models their whole life around it, but I still consider myself a fairly big fan of this stuff. In recent years I had pretty much abandoned my interest in anime in favor of my musical interests, but out of the blue, another series got me right back into anime - that series was Inuyasha. Inuyasha was created by Rumiko Takahashi, one of the finest anime/manga artists in all of Japan. Because I was so pleased with her work on Inuyasha, I wanted to check out some of her other work. Something I discovered is that it was her who created Ranma 1/2, one of the best-known anime/manga series out there. I had heard of the series before but never actually pursued an interest in it. And accordingly, I decided to check it out after much procrastination. If you want to see how Ranma measures up, keep on reading.

STORYLINE:
A young man and his father have been traveling across China, training in martial arts against each other. Following this training expedition, his father takes him to Japan to stay with an old family friend - who has three daughters. Both his father and his old family friend want him to marry one of these daughters - and that's where the fun begins. It turns out that during their Chinese training expedtion, father and son alike were cursed during a sparring match in a hot spring region. The father's curse results in him changing between his human form and a panda bear with different water temperatures, and the son's curse results in him changing between a boy and a girl depending on water temperature! And once he starts attending school in Japan, the antics really get started. Between all the gender-transformation madness and the fact that one of the girls he lives with has a mean streak, will he ever be able to live the normal life he wants to?

REVIEW:
I had known this series existed for nearly a decade, and put off checking it out for nearly that long. Boy, was that ever stupid! Ranma 1/2 is popular for several good reasons. Essentially, everything you could ever want from an anime/manga you can find in this series. You've got action, adventure, romance, comedy, and practically everything in between. The characters are well-developed and interesting, and made even better by the fact that Rumiko Takahashi doesn't make the all-too-common mistake of throwing too many characters at the reader at once. I still can't believe I put off checking out a series this good for so long. If you think the only thing worthwhile Takahashi ever did is Inuyasha, you are gravely mistaken. There's a reason Ranma 1/2 remains so popular long after Takahashi abandoned it in favor of the aforementioned series - it rocks. If you're an anime/manga fan of any degree, you must check Ranma out.

EDITION NOTES:
Ranma 1/2, along with the other Takahashi mangas released in America, including Inuyasha, were released in the States by the Viz corporation. Viz is one of my favorite manga-translating companies, because they keep the price fairly low (ten bucks for a three-hundred-plus page manga is a pretty good deal), and furthermore they reverse all the artwork so that you can read it from left to right like most American comic books (the Japanese read from right to left, and mangas translated by another manga-translating company, Tokyo Pop, are left in their original right-to-left format.) All in all, the current edition of the Ranma mangas is good.

OVERALL:
Overall, I've gotta say I'm pretty impressed with Ranma 1/2, and I could kick myself for putting off exploring it for so long. There is a good deal more to Takahashi than Inuyasha, and after giving the Ranma series a read, you'll see why (although I have to admit, if not for Takahashi's work on Inuyasha and my discovering that, I may never have discovered Ranma.) If you're an anime fan - and I don't care how big or small a fan you are - Ranma 1/2 is one of those series that is a must read.

Manga Vizion Monthly Manga Anthology Vol. 1, No. 3 (1)

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Get a piece of Anime history! A rare Manga Vizion Comic / Magazine from over 10 years ago. The first North American Monthly Manga Anthology. This edition includes: Rumic Theater House of Garbage by Rumiko Takahashi; Samurai Crusader by Ryoichi Ikegami ; A,A,[A, A Prime] by Shojo Manga Pioneer Moto Hagio; Ogre Slayer. A must have for any anime fan. Get a piece of history!

Ranma 1/2 New version Vol. 3 (Ranma 1/2 (Shinsou ban)) (in Japanese)

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Ranma 1/2 New version Vol. 3 (Ranma 1/2 (Shinsou ban)) (in Japanese)
Rumiko Takahashi
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En materia de risas, no hay nadie como Condorito. Este divertido pajarraco que durante años ha hecho reír a millones de latinoamericanos desde el Río Bravo hasta la Patagonia por fin aterriza en los Estados Unidos ... y está más chistoso que nunca.

Junto con sus amigos de siempre, el blanquísimo Huevoduro, Ungenio, Garganta de lata siempre ebrio, el insoportable Pepe Cortizona, Yayita la irresistible, el travieso Coné y hasta su perro Washington, Condorito nos regresa a las calles de Pelotillehue en busca de travesuras, picardías y sobre todo muchos chistes. Ya sea intentando enamorar a Yayita, peleando con los suegros, o trabajando como doctor, policía, pintor, astronauta o hasta de loco en un manicomio, Condorito nos hace morir de risa con su descabellado sentido del humor, sus locuras y sus ya legendarias expresiones. Pero pronto se embarcará en una aventura que lo llevará lejos de su ciudad natal a un mundo lleno de nuevos retos ... y como de costumbre ... lo enfrenta todo con risas, chistes y ¡muy buen humor!

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Review.......2006-08-14

Great fun to read. Better than the editions in Spanish.
I am looking forward for the following edition. You'll laugh along with Condorito and friends from the first page to the last one!

Really great for Condorito fans.......2005-05-24

I've collected all the Condorito magazines since I remember and obviously I got this first book. It really is different than the other comics as it features shorter stories, but it still gives great laughs.
A must have for fans and and worthy read for non-fans.

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"All students of the `Great Man's'career will have to rely on this work. . . . Perhaps Gehring's greatest contributio here is his discussion of 23 sketches that Fields copyrighted that are now in the Library of Congress." Choice

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Agricola published Introduction to the Art of Singing in Germany in 1757, consisting of the 1723 treatise of the Italian singing teacher and castrato, Tosi, to which Agricola added his own running commentary. The Introduction was recognized as invaluable not only for teachers and their pupils but also for advanced singers and professionals. This present edition, translated with introduction and annotations by the celebrated singer Julianne Baird, makes Agricola's work available for the first time in English. Tosi's work was the first basic treatise on singing; Agricola, a pupil of J.S. Bach at the court of Frederick the Great, brought Tosi's work "up-to-date." His commentaries are so extensive that the Introduction stands on its own as an important document in the history of performance practice.

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Primary source - authentic, reliable testimony.......2007-09-07

Not one, but two prominent musicians of the Baroque era discussing the finer points of vocal performance practice of that period, plus valuable clarifications and cross-references provided by a modern scholar (Baird). So many aspects of Baroque vocal performance practice were never written down by the composers - it was expected that the performers would improvise ornamentation in the style of the day. Consequently, rare sources like this one provide the modern scholar with some of the only available primary source material on the subject. Well-organized and surprisingly easy to read.

Far more than a translation.......2000-08-09

Julianne Baird's "Introduction to the Art of Singing" (1995) is far more than it appears. It is, of course, an English translation of Agricola's German text (1757), which in turn was a translation of the original Italian text by Tosi (1723) -- a monumental and often amusing work in itself. Agricola made his own observations regarding Tosi's work, and Julianne Baird has truly created an entirely new book by virtue of the observations she makes in her footnotes, which are very extensive. Baird is not only a scholar, but also an accomplished performer and so takes a very thorough approach to this treatise. She and Cambridge University Press are careful to delineate what parts of the text are Tosi, Agricola and Baird. It is an invaluable reference work for the serious student of historical vocal practice.

Introduction to the Art of Singing.: An article from: Notes

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Introduction to the Art of Singing.: An article from: Notes
David Wulstan
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Ask Barney: An Insider's Guide to Las Vegas
Barney Vinson
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Welcome to Las Vegas -- the city of lights, the land of dreams, the entertainment capital of the world, the place where time stands still. It's the last true frontier town in the Old West, only you're not drawing against the fastest gun in the territory.

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What a fun read!.......2003-11-19

This book was fun to read, interesting and very humorous. Lots of fun facts, history, tips & insights.

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"This book will let you see the little-known but effective trading tactics and methods of today's top market makers."--Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities

Active traders must get inside the head of the all-important market maker--"The Ax"--before they can begin to truly compete.

The Market Maker's Edge, written by longtime ax Josh Lukeman, is the first inside look at how axes think, what they look for, and, most important, how they can be beat.

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A groundbreaking work in electronic trading, The Market Maker's Edge gives you an effective, step-by-step trading plan used by Wall Street professionals to minimize risk and maximize profit.

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Very good.......2007-07-08

This book does an above average job of covering various aspects of trading. Short of perfection, as if there is such a book, it does cover basically all aspects of trading. If I were looking to get into trading or investigating how to start this is where I would begin. I don't think that it's anything new for most accomplished or experienced traders but they would still learn something new from it.

standard reading.......2007-04-18

Excellent book. Covers many aspects of trading including risk management, technicals, what drives the market, and psychology. Whether you are just starting to trade or looking to further fine tune your techniques, this book is a very good read.

Great Book.......2007-04-10

This is a great book for the inside knowledge of the market. It is a great way to learn how to make profits in the market instead of giving money to the market.

Beautiful in It's Simplicity - hope he writes more.......2006-10-03

Having read many, many books on trading I feel like I have spent a great deal of money and received knowledge but not insight.

That has changed with this book. What Josh Lukeman offers is similar to other books, in that the tools and the economic reports and insights can be gotten elsewhere, but so different in the value of the insights that he offers. The book is a gem and although it comes across as simple in some respects, the explanation on candlesticks, market makers strategies, and more, is worth far more than the price I paid.

Buy this book, read it twice, follow the insights. It will make you money. A lot of money.

Only negative is that the charts are grainy and so hard to read. But even that can be overlooked to some extent in looking at the greater value here.

Well rounded.......2006-08-20

This book is full of information that a novice needs to know. I found the sections on sizing your bids to be trivial. I could tell that Josh gets this knowledge from training and not experience. Reading the book I could just feel his supervisor looming over his shoulder to see that he was doing things correctly. I think it is great that he shares these things in this volume for us out of the "know" to see. This book is worth reading. I would suggest reading technical analysis books.

Ramping up sales: desperation, frustration the motivation for skateboard park makers.(Competitive edge: Rampage L.L.C.): An article from: Fairfield County Business Journal

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Ramping up sales: desperation, frustration the motivation for skateboard park makers.(Competitive edge: Rampage L.L.C.): An article from: Fairfield County Business Journal
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The Market Maker's Edge
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The Market Maker's Edge: Day Trading Tactics from a Wall Street Insider

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