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From Brass Bands to Buskers: Street Music in the UK

Artist/Author: Elizabeth Bennett, George McKay | Reference: P4013 | Type: Publication

Report about the Arts and Humanities Resarch Council funded prject.

Geek Love

Artist/Author: Katherine Dunn | Reference: P3566 | ISBN: 978-0349100869 | Type: Publication

Lil Binewski, born a Boston aristocrat, was in her time the most stylish of geeks. That is to say she made her living by biting the heads off live chickens in front of a carnival audience. This she gave up for doting motherhood, because she and her fairground-owning husband had a money spinning idea. 

Sissy cards

Artist/Author: Nando Messias | Reference: P3546 | Type: Publication

Cards on the artist's Sissy trilogy, with quotes by Lois Keidan, Stephen Farrier, Catherine Silversone.

Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran

Artist/Author: Shahram Khosravi | Reference: P3127 | ISBN: 978-0812248876 | Type: Publication

Attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians’ everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

Freaks: We Who are Not as Others

Artist/Author: Daniel P. Mannix | Reference: P3051 | ISBN: 978-0965104258 | Type: Publication

Meet the strangest people who ever lived, and read about: the notorious love affairs of midgets. Originally printed in a small edition and withdrawn after one month by the publisher, the book was out of print for nearly 20 years.

The Struggle for Black Arts in Britain – What Can We Consider Better Than Freedom

Artist/Author: Kwesi Owusu | Reference: P2019 | ISBN: 906890810 | Type: Publication

Publication focusing on the problems of establishing an authentic Black arts tradition in the UK. The book raises vital questions about the limitations of western elite culture and its spectrum of art forms.

W.A.M.A. – The Work as Movement Archive

Artist/Author: Serena Korda | Reference: P2006 | ISBN: 9780957370500 | Type: Publication

A catalogue documenting the development of a performance project featuring an invented folk dance, a choral performance and a procession with costumes, puppet icons and music. Includes a CD (see REF. D1967) and an essay by Sally O’Reilly.

W.A.M.A. – The Work as Movement Archive

Artist/Author: Serena Korda | Reference: D1967 | Type: DVD

Audio CD accompanying the homonymous catalogue (see REF. P2006 ) documenting the development of a performance project featuring an invented folk dance, a choral performance and a procession with costumes, puppet icons and music. I

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