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The ethics of remembering: Little Big Man and the exoneration of American guilt (2011)
Book Chapter
Aston, J. (2011). The ethics of remembering: Little Big Man and the exoneration of American guilt. In A. Karatzogianni (Ed.), Violence and War in Culture and the Media : Five Disciplinary Lenses (78-91). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203143308-12

Andre Bazin reinvigorated the cultural form of the Western by declaring that it was ‘the American cinema par excellence’ (Lovell 1976: 166). For Bazin, the Western expressed ‘evocations of the birth of the United States of America’ (Bazin 1973: 14) t... Read More about The ethics of remembering: Little Big Man and the exoneration of American guilt.

Náruc Shakespeara (An armful of Shakespeare) (2011)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2011). Náruc Shakespeara (An armful of Shakespeare). Divadelní revue, 22(3), 67 - 90

A critical article on the recent Czech Shakespeare criticism and translations, elaborating the contextual significance, theorizing the consequences and reflecting the current state of Czech theatre practice, translations and Shakespeare studies.

Príspevek k provázkovské mytologii (a contribution to the mythology of the Goose on a String Theatre) (2011)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2011). Príspevek k provázkovské mytologii (a contribution to the mythology of the Goose on a String Theatre). Theatralia, 14(2), 266 - 267

A critical review of Petr Oslzlý's book "Theatre on a String's Commedia dell'Arte Production (1974-1985): An Analysis, Reconstruction and Documentation of Peter Scherhaufer's and Harlequin Boleslav Polívka's Production" (Brno: JAMU, 2011).

Tendence v našem myšlení o divadle (Trends in our thinking on the theatre) (2011)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2011). Tendence v našem myšlení o divadle (Trends in our thinking on the theatre). Theatralia, 14(2), 285 - 291

A critical essay on the papers presented at the international theatre studies conference held at the Theatre Faculty of the Janácek Academy of Performing Arts, 2008, to the honour of Prof. Ivo Osolsobe. These papers were published in a collection ent... Read More about Tendence v našem myšlení o divadle (Trends in our thinking on the theatre).

Torontská disertace o ceském divadle (A Toronto doctoral dissertation on Czech theatre) (2011)
Journal Article
Drabek, P. (2011). Torontská disertace o ceském divadle (A Toronto doctoral dissertation on Czech theatre). Theatralia, 14(2), 277 - 279

A critical review of Adam Grunzke's PhD thesis "Models of Aesthetic Subversion: Ideas, Spaces, and Objects in Czech Drama and Theatre of the 1950s and 1960s", defended at the University of Toronto.

Writing Gaullist feminism: Françoise Parturier's open letters 1968–1974 (2011)
Journal Article
Long, I. (2011). Writing Gaullist feminism: Françoise Parturier's open letters 1968–1974. Modern & contemporary France / ASM & CF, 19(3), 313-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2011.588794

Gaullist feminist Françoise Parturier's open letters written during the second wave women's movement in France are striking examples of how politically engaged women use writing in innovative ways in order to make intellectual interventions. Her pole... Read More about Writing Gaullist feminism: Françoise Parturier's open letters 1968–1974.

Timbre and non-radical didacticism in the Streets' A grand don't come for free: a poetic-ecological model (2011)
Journal Article
Slater, M. (2011). Timbre and non-radical didacticism in the Streets' A grand don't come for free: a poetic-ecological model. Music Analysis, 30(2-3), 360-395. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2249.2011.00317.x

This article investigates the status and function of timbre by proposing a poetic-ecological model, which seeks to encapsulate the intersections between and applications of three theoretical territories: poetics, ecological theory and spectromorpholo... Read More about Timbre and non-radical didacticism in the Streets' A grand don't come for free: a poetic-ecological model.

The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial (2011)
Journal Article
White, J., Gray, R. J., Swift, L., Barton, G. R., & Jones, M. (2011). The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials, 12(167), https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-12-167

Background: The serious mental illness Health Improvement Profile [HIP] is a brief pragmatic tool, which enables mental health nurses to work together with patients to screen physical health and take evidence-based action when variables are identifie... Read More about The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Absolute tempo in multiple performances of aboriginal songs: Analyzing recordings of Djanba 12 and Djanba 14 (2011)
Journal Article
Bailes, F., & Barwick, L. (2011). Absolute tempo in multiple performances of aboriginal songs: Analyzing recordings of Djanba 12 and Djanba 14. Music Perception, 28(5), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2011.28.5.473

Songs that are not notated but transmitted through live performance are of particular interest for the psychological study of the stability of tempo across multiple performances. While experimental research points to highly accurate memory for the te... Read More about Absolute tempo in multiple performances of aboriginal songs: Analyzing recordings of Djanba 12 and Djanba 14.

Gestures and glances: interactions in ensemble rehearsal (2011)
Book Chapter
Ginsborg, J., & King, E. (2011). Gestures and glances: interactions in ensemble rehearsal. In A. Gritten, & E. King (Eds.), New perspectives on music and gesture (177-202). Ashgate

Performers use physical gestures in numerous ways. They can be used to communicate musical expression, generate sound production, facilitate technical movements while playing or singing, regulate temporal aspects of performance, and provide musical a... Read More about Gestures and glances: interactions in ensemble rehearsal.

Czech stage art and stage design (2011)
Book
Drábek, P., Billing, C., & Drabek, P. (2011). Czech stage art and stage design. Masarykova univerzita

A special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Theatralia/Yorick on Czech scenography, stage design and historical periods of Czech stage art. Co-edited and introduction co-written with Christian M. Billing.

Developing decision-making skills for performance through the practice of mindfulness in somatic training (2011)
Journal Article
Edinborough, C. (2011). Developing decision-making skills for performance through the practice of mindfulness in somatic training. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 2(1), 18-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2010.543917

Decision-making is a fundamental part of the actor's work. Actors must choose how to present a character, how to tell a story, and how to communicate with an audience. This article examines how certain somatic practices used in actor-training can imp... Read More about Developing decision-making skills for performance through the practice of mindfulness in somatic training.

Kde se bere prevleková komedie (Where the comedy of disguise comes from) (2011)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P., & Drabek, P. (2011). Kde se bere prevleková komedie (Where the comedy of disguise comes from). In Jule Styne, Peter Stone, Bob Merrill: Sugar!: (Někdo to rád horké): šestá inscenace šedesáté šesté sezony 2010/2011 (56 - 70). Městské divadlo Brno

An essay on the history of the comedy of disguise in the theatre, written for the programme notes for a production of Jule Styne, Peter Stone, Bob Merrill's Sugar, directed by Stanislav Moša at the Municipal Theatre in Brno, Czech Republic.

The stuff of legend: examining media representations of the Brassens-Brel-Ferré myths (2011)
Journal Article
Haworth, R. (2011). The stuff of legend: examining media representations of the Brassens-Brel-Ferré myths. Contemporary French civilization, 36(1-2), 19-32. https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2011.3

Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and Léo Ferré are often grouped together and referred to as the archetypal French singer-songwriters, the 'big three' of thechanson françaisefrom the 1950s onwards. Looseley (2003) suggests that they have in fact become... Read More about The stuff of legend: examining media representations of the Brassens-Brel-Ferré myths.

Looking and listening : music and sound as visual trope in Ukiyo-e (2011)
Book Chapter
Binns, A. (2011). Looking and listening : music and sound as visual trope in Ukiyo-e. In T. Shephard, & A. Leonard (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture (120-126). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203629987

The word ukiyo-e comes from a combination of “Ukiyo” , which means “floating world,” and “e” , which means picture or image. So, ukiyo-e offer both a description of the world of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—in particular the pleasures, foods, daily life,... Read More about Looking and listening : music and sound as visual trope in Ukiyo-e.