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Pages: 288
Authors: David Stark
Categories: Business & Economics
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An increasing number of activities in everyday life are being evaluated and experienced in terms of performance metrics. This book examines this assemblage of n
The Performance Complex
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What's valuable? Market competition provides one kind of answer. Competitions offer another. On one side, competition is an ongoing and seemingly endless proces
Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex
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Pages: 217
Authors: Tony Perucci
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-18 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Actor and singer Paul Robeson's performances in Othello, Show Boat, and The Emperor Jones made him famous, but his midcentury appearances in support of causes r
Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance
Language: en
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Authors: James M. Harding
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-23 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Examines the pervasive presence of surveillance and how surveillance technologies alter the performance of everyday life
In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Alejandro L. Madrid
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Currents in Latin American and

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In the 1920s, Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system he metaphorically called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound). Although his p