[ebooks] Popular Music; Cultural Politics and Music Education in China (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) by Wai-Chung Ho in Arts-Photography

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The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades; radically altering critical approaches to form; genre; and canon. Drawing on disciplines from art history to musicology and reception studies; The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance reconsiders early "drama" as a mixed mode entertainment best studied not only alongside non-dramatic texts; but also other modes of performance. From performance before the playhouse to the afterlife of medieval drama in the contemporary avant-garde; this stunning collection of essays is divided into four sections:Northern European Playing before the Playhouse;Modes of Production and Reception;Reviewing the Anglophone Tradition;The Long Middle AgesOffering a much needed reassessment of what is generally understood as "English medieval drama"; The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance provides an invaluable resource for both students and scholars of medieval studies.