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What is Commedia dell’Arte Today? A Review Essay (2019)
Journal Article
Drábek, P. (2019). What is Commedia dell’Arte Today? A Review Essay. Early theatre, 22(2), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.12745/et.22.2.4128

This essay reviews seven recent volumes on the commedia dell'arte: Christopher B. Balme, Piermario Vescovo, and Daniele Vianello's edited volume Commedia dell’Arte in Context (2018); Judith Chaffee and Oliver Crick's edited The Routledge Companion to... Read More about What is Commedia dell’Arte Today? A Review Essay.

Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: the case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children (2019)
Journal Article
Worthen, H., McDonagh, B., & Capern, A. (2019). Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: the case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children. Women's History Review, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2019.1696414

This article addresses the boundaries of female power within early modern aristocratic families. It examines the family arrangements of Lord Emmanuel Scroop whose marriage to Elizabeth Manners was childless. The research sets out to uncover Lord Scro... Read More about Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: the case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children.

'Why, sir, are there other heauens in other countries?': The English Comedy as a transnational style (2019)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P. (2019). 'Why, sir, are there other heauens in other countries?': The English Comedy as a transnational style. In M. A. Katritzky, & P. Drabek (Eds.), Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre (139-161). Manchester University Press

This essay analyzes the specifics of the English Comedy (Englische Comedie) as a genre practised by the popular travelling English troupes and their inheritors, during the century between the 1580s and 1680s. Most scholarship has assumed that English... Read More about 'Why, sir, are there other heauens in other countries?': The English Comedy as a transnational style.

Introduction (2019)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P., & Katritzky, M. A. (2019). Introduction. In Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre (1-19). Manchester University Press

This introduction outlines the methodological, theoretical and interdisciplinary novelties of the volume, reflecting on the historiographical specifics and methods applied in the volume, in its organization, in its treatment of historic documents and... Read More about Introduction.

Production perspectives of heavy metal record producers (2019)
Journal Article
Thomas, N., & King, A. (2019). Production perspectives of heavy metal record producers. Popular music, 38(3), 498-517. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114301900031X

The study of the recorded artefact from a musicological perspective continues to unfold through contemporary research. Whilst an understanding of the scientific elements of recorded sound is well documented, the exploration of the production and the... Read More about Production perspectives of heavy metal record producers.

The Meanie Club — Gendered violence and post-punk narratives of love in Miss Farkku-Suomi by Kauko Röyhkä and Dorfpunks by Rocko Schamoni. (2019)
Journal Article
Gratzke, M. (in press). The Meanie Club — Gendered violence and post-punk narratives of love in Miss Farkku-Suomi by Kauko Röyhkä and Dorfpunks by Rocko Schamoni. Forum for Modern Language Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqz031

This article examines love, relationships, intimacy and gendered violence in fictionalised punk biographies by authors and post-punk recording artists Kauko Röyhkä and Rocko Schamoni. Punk rock’s DIY aesthetic emphasises self-fashioning and shock val... Read More about The Meanie Club — Gendered violence and post-punk narratives of love in Miss Farkku-Suomi by Kauko Röyhkä and Dorfpunks by Rocko Schamoni..

Connect Resound: Using online technology to deliver music education to remote communities (2019)
Journal Article
King, A., Prior, H., & Waddington-Jones, C. (2019). Connect Resound: Using online technology to deliver music education to remote communities. Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 12(2), 201-217. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte_00006_1

This article describes an action research project that aimed to widen participation for music education in schools in England (United Kingdom). The Connect Resound project involved a pilot stage in North Yorkshire (England, United Kingdom) followed b... Read More about Connect Resound: Using online technology to deliver music education to remote communities.

Memory, Identity and Migrant Generations: Articulating italianità in C20th and C21st Northern England through the Case of Kingston upon Hull. (2019)
Journal Article
Haworth, R., & Rorato, L. (in press). Memory, Identity and Migrant Generations: Articulating italianità in C20th and C21st Northern England through the Case of Kingston upon Hull. California Italian Studies, 9(1),

Owing to its geographical location and the collapse of its fishing and shipping industries, the UK city of Kingston upon Hull post-WWII rapidly acquired a reputation as a declining outpost of the British nation with no real links to the rest of the w... Read More about Memory, Identity and Migrant Generations: Articulating italianità in C20th and C21st Northern England through the Case of Kingston upon Hull..

Revisiting the crimes of the past: the image of the perpetrator in recent German Holocaust film (2019)
Journal Article
Ward, E. M. (2019). Revisiting the crimes of the past: the image of the perpetrator in recent German Holocaust film. Holocaust Studies, 27(2), 339-349. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2019.1637503

More than seven decades after the liberation of concentration camps across Europe, we are witnessing the jostle between communicative and cultural memory to determine how the Holocaust is inscribed in a post-victim and post-perpetrator world. This ar... Read More about Revisiting the crimes of the past: the image of the perpetrator in recent German Holocaust film.

City branding and the popular music star: The case of Mina, Cremona, and ‘Cremona canta Mina’ (2018) (2019)
Journal Article
Haworth, R. (in press). City branding and the popular music star: The case of Mina, Cremona, and ‘Cremona canta Mina’ (2018). Italian Studies, 74(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2019.1658956

Mina (born Anna Maria Mazzini, 1940) is arguably the best-loved and most successful female Italian popular music star. More than this, she has become part of Italian everyday life and cultural heritage, and an icon of Italy of which the country can a... Read More about City branding and the popular music star: The case of Mina, Cremona, and ‘Cremona canta Mina’ (2018).

Mindfulness and advising in language learning: an alternative theoretical perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Mozzon McPherson, M. (2019). Mindfulness and advising in language learning: an alternative theoretical perspective. Mélanges CRAPEL, 40(1), 87-113

In recent years, a growing concern about increased levels of stress and anxiety has attracted interest in applications of mindfulness and mindfulness training as a constructive approach to addressing these issues. In Education, a number of studies ha... Read More about Mindfulness and advising in language learning: an alternative theoretical perspective.

"There probably is some higher power": Philosophical Undercurrents in the Work of Jaroslav Malina (2019)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P. (2019). "There probably is some higher power": Philosophical Undercurrents in the Work of Jaroslav Malina. In J. Brandesky (Ed.), Jaroslav Malina in Scenography and Painting (251-282). Karolinum Press

Jaroslav Malina was not only a world-renowned scenographer but also an acclaimed visual artist who, throughout his career, kept creating paintings and graphic objects. It has been pointed out by connoisseurs of his work – particularly by contributors... Read More about "There probably is some higher power": Philosophical Undercurrents in the Work of Jaroslav Malina.