Playing with History
Title | Playing with History PDF eBook |
Author | John Butt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2002-05-30 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521013581 |
This challenging 2002 study examines and ultimately defends the case for historically informed musical performance.
Playing with the Past
Title | Playing with the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Wilhelm Kapell |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 493 |
Release | 2013-10-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1623568242 |
Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area of digital game play -- the representation of history. The collection focuses on the ways in which gamers engage with, play with, recreate, subvert, reverse and direct the historical past, and what effect this has on the ways in which we go about constructing the present or imagining a future. What can World War Two strategy games teach us about the reality of this complex and multifaceted period? Do the possibilities of playing with the past change the way we understand history? If we embody a colonialist's perspective to conquer 'primitive' tribes in Colonization, does this privilege a distinct way of viewing history as benevolent intervention over imperialist expansion? The fusion of these two fields allows the editors to pose new questions about the ways in which gamers interact with their game worlds. Drawing these threads together, the collection concludes by asking whether digital games - which represent history or historical change - alter the way we, today, understand history itself.
Playing Politics with History
Title | Playing Politics with History PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Beattie |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781845455330 |
The ensuing debates and disagreements over the recent past, examined by the author, open up a window into the wider development of German memory, identity, and politics after the end of the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.
Playing with History
Title | Playing with History PDF eBook |
Author | Molly Rosner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2021-05-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781978822078 |
Examining cultural products geared towards teaching children American cultural identity, Playing With History highlights the changes and constancies in depictions of American identity since the advent of modern consumer society. The book examines political and ideological messages sold to children throughout the twentieth century through toys, dolls, books, and amusement parks.
History Play
Title | History Play PDF eBook |
Author | Rodney Bolt |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2008-12-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1596917202 |
Rodney Bolt's delightful life of Marlowe plays out a surprising solution to an enduring literary mystery, bringing the spirit of Shakespeare alive as we've never seen it before. Rodney Bolt's book is not an attempt to prove that, rather than dying at 29 in a tavern brawl, Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to Europe, and went on to write the work attributed to Shakespeare. Instead, it takes that as the starting point for a playful and brilliantly written "fake biography" of Marlowe, which turns out to be a life of the Bard as well. Using real historical sources (as well as the occasional red herring) plus a generous dose of speculation, Bolt paints a rich and rollicking picture of Elizabethan life. As we accompany Marlowe into the halls of academia, the society of the popular English players traveling Europe, and the dangerous underworld of Elizabethan espionage, a fascinating and almost plausible life story emerges, along with a startlingly fresh look at the plays and poetry we know as Shakespeare's. Tapping into centuries of speculation about the man behind the work, about whom so few facts are known for sure, Rodney Bolt slyly winds the lives of two beloved playwrights into one.
Playing for Keeps
Title | Playing for Keeps PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Jay Goldstein |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2014-03-26 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0801471478 |
In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled player-employees. Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century. Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades. The 20th Anniversary Edition of Goldstein's classic includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s and an account of his experience as a scholarly consultant during the production of Ken Burns's Baseball.
Children at Play
Title | Children at Play PDF eBook |
Author | Howard P. Chudacoff |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2008-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814716652 |
Introduction: Play -- Childhood and play in colonial America -- Domesticating children, 1800-1850 -- The arrival of toys, 1850-1900 -- The invasion of children's play culture, 1900-1950 -- The golden age, 1900-1950 -- The commercialization of children's play, 1950 to the present -- Children's play goes underground, 1950 to the present -- Conclusion