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• Introduction
• Part 1. Unveiling dancers' artistry. Performing: A transcendent experience
• Breath, movement, emotion and music
• Expressivity, harmony, creativity and artistry
• Technique, training and changes in dancers' brains
• Dealing with challenges
• Part 2. The magical motor system. The science behind the scenes
• Pathways to new skills
• Part 3. The art of training dancers. Our role as ballet teachers
• Skills in cueing and feedback
• Discovering technique
• The speaking body
• Discovering the dancer inside
• Afterword.

• Introduction: Revealing cultural confluences
• Language, value, and branding in confluent dance spaces
• Critical engagement with aesthetic systems in dance
• Navigating cultural confluences and envisioning new spaces
• Choreography, improvisation, and "just steps"
• Cultural knowledge production in dance academia.

"Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games is a unique edited collection that explores the interplay of heritage, memory, identity and history within postcolonial board games and their surrounding paratexts. It also examines critiques of these games within the gamer communities and beyond. Drawing on a range of international contributions, examples and case studies, this book shows how colonialism-themed games work as representations of the past that are influenced by existing heritage narratives and discourses. It also considers the implications of using colonial histories in games and its impact on its audience, the games' players. Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games will be relevant to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of game studies, game design or development, heritage studies, postcolonial criticism, media studies, and history. It will also be beneficial to practicing game developers"-- Provided by publisher.

• Proposing the posthuman gamer
• Who am "I"? : troubling the self
• From acting to intra-acting
• Enacting and embodying empathy
• Emergent subject positions
• From emergence to (susp)endings
• A contingent conclusion.

• The Huddled Masses
• In service of the state
• The dawn of the activist athlete
• New frontiers in player empowerment
• Into the twenty-first century

This book explores how American sports, especially basketball, baseball and American football, have projected the US into the world, and brought the world into America. Taking a chronological approach it traces the development of American sports from the turn of the 20th century, highlighting how international forces such as immigration, geopolitics and war have influenced the trajectory of sport in the US, and thus the American experience. DuBois also considers the globalization of American sport and how this soft power shaped international relations throughout the American century. Addressing key questions about the role of sport in the rise of the United States, it frames themes that have come to define sports history; gender, race, economics and politics. It argues that while sport has not necessarily been a catalyst for change, it has often mirrored social issues, and sometimes served as an important tool of progress. Synthesizing major works alongside primary sources, the chapters study boxing, hockey, track and field and soccer alongside the 'big three' (basketball, baseball and American football) through a number of case studies to offer a novel interpretation of American sport history. Spanning early Native American sport, the export of baseball in the American empire, the role of basketball in the Cold War, the influence of immigrants and women in sports, and modern day sport culture, American Sport in International History asks what the role of sport has been and will be in a shifting international environment

"Our modern culture is increasingly expressed in the form of digital artifacts, yet archaeology is in its infancy when it comes to researching and understanding them. The study and reverse engineering of digital artifacts is no longer the exclusive domain of computer scientists. Presented by way of analogy to the process of archaeological fieldwork familiar to readers, the 1986 Electronic Arts game Amnesia is used as a vehicle to explain the procedure and thought process required to reverse engineer a digital artifact. As a go-to reference to learn how to begin studying the digital, Amnesia is shown to be a multi-layered artifact with a complex backstory; through it, topics in data compression, copy protection, memory management, and programming languages are covered"-- Provided by publisher

The idea that morris dancing captures the essence of ancient Englishness, inherently carefree and merry, has been present for over 400 years. The Ancient English Morris Dance traces the history of those attitudes, from the dance's introduction to England in the fifteenth century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, during which morris dancing and maypoles became potent symbols of the older ways of living. Thereafter it developed and diversified, neglected and disdained, until antiquaries began to take an interest in its history, leading to its re-invention as emblematic of Victorian concepts of Merrie England in the nineteenth century. The quest for authentic understanding of what that meant led to its revival at the beginning of the twentieth century, but that was predicated on the perception of it as part of England's declining rural past, to the neglect of the one area (the industrial north-west) where it continued to flourish. The revival led in turn to its further evolution into the multitude of forms and styles in which it may be encountered today.

In Arc of Feeling Javier Moscoso investigates the pleasure of oscillation and explores the surprising history of the swing through its meanings and metaphors, noting echoes and coincidences in remote times and places: from the witch’s broom to aerial yoga and from the gallows to sexual mores. Taking in cultural history, science, art, anthropology, and philosophy, Moscoso explores the presence and role of this artifact in the West, such as in the works of Watteau, Fragonard, and Goya, as well as in other Eastern traditions, including those of India, Korea, Thailand, and China. Linked since ancient times with sex and death, used by gods and madmen, as well as an erotic and therapeutic instrument, the swing is revealed to be an essential but forgotten object in the history of human experience.

"In 2017 the Houston Astros won their first World Series title, a particularly uplifting victory for the city following Hurricane Harvey. But two years later, the feel-good energy was gone after The Athletic revealed that the Astros had stolen signs from opposing catchers during their championship season, perhaps even during the playoffs and World Series. Their methods were at once high-tech and crude: staff took video of opponents' pitching signals and transmitted the footage in real time to the Astros' dugout, where players banged on trash cans to signal to their teammates at bat which pitches were coming their way. Wry observers labeled them the Asterisks, pointing to the title that no longer seemed so earned. Astros and Asterisks examines the scandal from historical, journalistic, legal, ethical, and cultural perspectives. Authors delve into the Astros' winning-above-all attitude, cultivated by a former McKinsey consultant; the significance of hiring a pitcher recently suspended for domestic abuse; the career-ending effects of the Astros' transgression on opposing players; and the ethically fraught choices necessary to participate in sign-stealing. Ultimately, it links the Astros' choices to the sporting world's obsession with analytics. What emerges is a sobering tale about the impact of new technology on a game whose romanticized image feels increasingly incongruous with its reality in the era of big data and video." -- Provided by publisher

• Appendix: "Defendant Houston Astros": Michael Bolsinger vs. The Houston Astros
• Contributors
• Index

• The Hellenistic artists' associations
• The emergence of the ecumenical synods of competitors
• The development of the ecumenical synods in the first century AD
• All roads lead to Rome
• On tour through the festival world
• The decline of the ecumenical synods
• Internal organisation
• The members of the ecumenical synods
• The professional interests of the ecumenical synods
• The organisation of the festival network.

This is the first comprehensive study of the associations of athletes and artists in the Roman empire. The xystic synod of athletes and the thymelic synod of artists were the only ancient associations that operated on a pan-Mediterranean scale. They were active from southern Gaul to Syria and Egypt and were therefore styled 'ecumenical synods'. They played a key role in Greek festival culture during the imperial period: not only did they defend the professional interests of their members, they also contributed to the organisation of competitions and the maintenance of the festival network. Due to their cultural activities, their connections with the imperial court and their ramified social networks, they left a distinctive stamp on Greco-Roman elite culture during the Principate. Drawing on all available documentation, this book offers new insights into the history and workings of these remarkable associations.

• The Hellenistic artists' associations
• The emergence of the ecumenical synods of competitors
• The development of the ecumenical synods in the first century AD
• All roads lead to Rome
• On tour through the festival world
• The decline of the ecumenical synods
• Internal organisation
• The members of the ecumenical synods
• The professional interests of the ecumenical synods
• The organisation of the festival network

"The first comprehensive study of the associations of athletes and artists in the Roman empire. They were active across the Mediterranean world and played a key role in Greek festival culture. Due to their cultural activities and court and social connections, they left a distinctive stamp on Greco-Roman elite culture"-- Provided by publisher

• Prologue : a dying ember
• First inning : baseball fever and pioneers
• Second inning : organizing clubs, funding, travel, and the game's rituals
• Third Inning : playing fields, gambling, and injuries
• Fourth Inning : the game and Its players
• Fifth inning : sharing the fun
• Sixth inning : barriers of race and gender
• Seventh inning : trouble in baseball's Eden
• Eighth inning : representative teams
• Ninth inning : the thrill departs
• Epilogue : ghosts
• Appendix A. Illinois baseball teams, by town and year founded, 1865-70
• Appendix B. Bloomington's fifth ward school-grounds neighborhood
• Appendix C. Illinois baseball players, by town
• and team, 1865-70

"Baseball's spread across Illinois paralleled the sport's explosive growth in other parts of the country. Robert D. Sampson taps a wealth of archival research to transport readers to an era when an epidemic of "base ball on the brain" raged from Alton to Woodstock. Focusing on the years 1865 to 1869, Sampson offers a vivid portrait of a game where local teams and civic ambition went hand in hand and teams of paid professionals displaced gentlemen's clubs devoted to sporting fair play. This preoccupation with competition sparked rules disputes and controversies over imported players while the game itself mirrored society by excluding Black Americans and women. The new era nonetheless brought out paying crowds to watch the Rock Island Lively Turtles, Fairfield Snails, and other teams take the field up and down the state. A first-ever history of early baseball in Illinois, Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins adds the Prairie State game's unique shadings and colorful stories to the history of the national pastime"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Prologue: "a grim harvest" (Ernest Barnard)
• "The ball player Is a fortunate man" (Connie Mack)
• "So you're the goddamned prohibitionist" (Branch Rickey)
• "A tyro in the intricacies of organized baseball" (Kenesaw Landis)
• "The Yankees need building up" (Ed Barrow)
• "Keen competition throughout the closing month" (Larry MacPhail)
• "They could never say he wasn't a 'real Jew'" (Hank Greenberg)
• "It would be best for the country to keep baseball going" (Don Barnes)
• "A great display of tingling patriotism" (Yogi Berra)
• "The smiling young man with the $1,000,000 check book" (Tom Yawkey)
• "Bright colored paper and red ribbons" (Bill Veeck)
• "Il a gagné ses epaulettes" (Red Barber)
• "A sound if not spectacular choice" (Ford Frick)
• "I have long desired to see California" (Henry Aaron)
• "Henry, don't go out there" (Bill Shea)

"A history of baseball as a sport and business during the middle of the twentieth century, examining the game on and off the field and tracing its development within the broader contours of American history"-- Provided by publisher