Author: Jez ButterworthPublisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A new play by award-winning stage and screen writer, premiered by the mega-successful Almeida Theatre.
Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song
Author: Julie HeniganPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317320670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Focusing on several distinct genres of eighteenth-century Irish song, Henigan demonstrates in each case that the interaction between the elite and vernacular, the written and oral, is pervasive and characteristic of the Irish song tradition to the present day.
Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth
Author: Sean McEvoyPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303062711X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth’s most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworth’s work chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significant in a variety of ways to Butterworth’s presentation of cultural and personal crisis.
Language, the Singer and the Song
Author: Richard J. WattsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107112710
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
The relationship between language and music has much in common - rhythm, structure, sound, metaphor. Exploring the phenomena of song and performance, this book presents a sociolinguistic model for analysing them. Based on ethnomusicologist John Blacking's contention that any song performed communally is a 'folk song' regardless of its generic origins, it argues that folk song to a far greater extent than other song genres displays 'communal' or 'inclusive' types of performance. The defining feature of folk song as a multi-modal instantiation of music and language is its participatory nature, making it ideal for sociolinguistic analysis. In this sense, a folk song is the product of specific types of developing social interaction whose major purpose is the construction of a temporally and locally based community. Through repeated instantiations, this can lead to disparate communities of practice, which, over time, develop sociocultural registers and a communal stance towards aspects of meaningful events in everyday lives that become typical of a discourse community.
The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama
Author: Elizabeth Hale WinklerPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.
Author: Gerry TebbuttSoldiers of Song
Author: Jason WilsonPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554588839
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells—concert parties made up of fighting soldiers—were central to this process. Soldiers of Song tells their story. Lucky soldiers who could sing a song, perform a skit, or pass as a “lady,” were taken from the line and put onstage for the benefit of their soldier-audiences. The intent was to bolster morale and thereby help soldiers survive the war. The Dumbells’ popularity was not limited to troop shows along the trenches. The group also managed a run in London’s West End and became the first ever Canadian production to score a hit on Broadway. Touring Canada for some twelve years after the war, the Dumbells became a household name and made more than twenty-five audio recordings. If nationhood was won on the crest of Vimy Ridge, it was the Dumbells who provided the country with its earliest soundtrack. Pioneers of sketch comedy, the Dumbells are as important to the history of Canadian theatre as they are to the cultural history of early-twentieth-century Canada.
Popular Songs For Classical/ Fingerstyle Guitar: 21 Intermediate Arrangements. Notation and Tab Edition
Author: Adrian AllanPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244994374
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A collection of 21 intermediate arrangements for the classical or fingerstyle guitar in notation and tablature. The pieces are from the categories of Stephen Foster Songs; Folk Songs; Parlour Songs and arrangements of classical themes. The pieces included are My Old Kentucky Home; Beautiful Dreamer; Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair; Hard Times Come Again No More; Gentle Annie; Allan Water; The Lark In The Clear Air; David Of The White Rock; Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms; The Skye Boat Song; Annie Laurie; Deep River; At Dawning; I Love You Truly; Kiss Me Again; My Wild Irish Rose; Love's Old Sweet Song; Chanson De Matin; I Vow To Thee My Country (Jupiter/ The Planets); Waltz From Coppelia; Waltz From Swan Lake. Notes about all of the songs are included in a detailed introduction.
Author: William Peterfield Trent
Author: William Peterfield Trent