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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.

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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. 

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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.

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The Radical in Performance: Between Brecht and Baudrillard
Artist/Author: Baz Kershaw | Reference: P2761 | ISBN: 978-0415186681 | Type: Publication

Investigates the crisis in contemporary theatre, and celebrates the subversive in performance.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

 

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Nando Messias leaflets
Reference: P3181 | Type: Publication

Handout and info for Shoot the Sissy LADA Screens event.

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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).

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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 Originally printed in a small edition and withdrawn after one month by the publisher, the book was out of print for nearly 20 years.

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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.

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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.

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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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