Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Announcement and New Books @ Library, March 2010

Hi,

I am getting pretty close to spending all of the grant money to develop the Theatre/Dance collection dealing in war and peace. I am mostly buying plays and collections of plays, so we should be seeing a significant increase in titles.

Also, here are the newest Theatre/Dance titles at the library.

Acting and singing with archtypes / by Janet B. Rodgers and Frankie Armstrong.

Crossroads : performance studies and Irish culture / edited by Sara Brady and Fintan Walsh.

Directors & designers / [edited by] Christine White.

Dressed for duty : America's women in uniform, 1898-1873 / by Jill Halcomb Smith ; foreword by Edward R. Burka.

Get real : documentary theatre past and present / edited by Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson.

Gilbert and Sullivan : class and the Savoy tradition, 1875-1896 / Regina B. Oost.

Haume couture fashioned by Betty Sacker : folklore of an American home dressmaker and her students / by Deborah Lynn Chmielewski.

Lee Strasberg notes / edited by Lola Cohen.

Marketing modernity : Victorian popular shows and early cinema / Joe Kember.

Playbill Broadway yearbook.

Roman military dress / Graham Sumner.

Routledge dance studies reader / edited by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea.

Stance : ideas about emotion, style, and meaning for the study of expressive culture / Harris M. Berger.

Stepping through time : archaeological footwear from prehistoric times until 1800 / Olaf Goubitz, Carol van Driel-Murray, Willy Groenman-van Waateringe.

Theatre & the body / Colette Conroy.

Vintage hairstyling : retro styles with step-by-step techniques / Lauren Rennells.