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GtrsRGr8 · 02-18-2019, 03:04 AM

People who have been MobileReaders for "some length of time," know that Gtrs loves Open Access. Well, basically, he just loves the concept of free anything and everything.

It is difficult to try to sort out all of the different organizations are that are somehow involved in this Open Access free ebook giveaway, so Gtrs is not even going to try. He will simply pass along the following blurb and the URL of the website, for them to check it out for themselves:
Welcome to our collection of Open Access Ebooks in the disciplines of dance and theatre.
Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Wesleyan University Press helped establish and sustain dance studies and the practice of stagecraft through its seminal book publications in the 1960s and 1970s, a tradition that continues to this day. With the support of Humanities Open Book program, a joint initiative of The National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we are pleased to reissue sixteen titles from our performing arts backlist. These titles in dance and theater contribute to an understanding of the evolution of modernism in the performing arts.

Along with these free ebooks, there are a couple of free "introductory essays."

The website to go to has this URL.

All of the ebooks may be available only as PDF's.

It appears that these books would be expensive if a person had to go out and buy one or more. Gtrs picked one at random--The Language of Dance, by Mary Wigman--and checked the price at Amazon. He found that it's not available in digital form there, and the least expensive copy available from Amazon is a used paperback for $69. Now Gtrs knows that this won't be a motivation for anyone grabbing any one or more titles--he's just saying that it appears that Wesleyan University Press, et al. are giving away some valuable ebooks!

Now, being the real man that he is

, Gtrs is not really into most dance or theater. But, he did find one on theater lighting before electricity that he thought might be interesting, and so grabbed it. Mainly he's just passing along the above info for the benefit of his fellow MobileReaders who might be interested in dance and/or theater, and might like to have one or more of the ebooks--Free.

02-18-2019, 03:04 AM	#1434
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	FREE Ebooks on Dance and Theater, Courtesy of Wesleyan University Press (and Others). People who have been MobileReaders for "some length of time," know that Gtrs loves Open Access. Well, basically, he just loves the concept of free anything and everything. It is difficult to try to sort out all of the different organizations are that are somehow involved in this Open Access free ebook giveaway, so Gtrs is not even going to try. He will simply pass along the following blurb and the URL of the website, for them to check it out for themselves: Welcome to our collection of Open Access Ebooks in the disciplines of dance and theatre. Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Wesleyan University Press helped establish and sustain dance studies and the practice of stagecraft through its seminal book publications in the 1960s and 1970s, a tradition that continues to this day. With the support of Humanities Open Book program, a joint initiative of The National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we are pleased to reissue sixteen titles from our performing arts backlist. These titles in dance and theater contribute to an understanding of the evolution of modernism in the performing arts. Along with these free ebooks, there are a couple of free "introductory essays." The website to go to has this URL. All of the ebooks may be available only as PDF's. It appears that these books would be expensive if a person had to go out and buy one or more. Gtrs picked one at random--The Language of Dance, by Mary Wigman--and checked the price at Amazon. He found that it's not available in digital form there, and the least expensive copy available from Amazon is a used paperback for $69. Now Gtrs knows that this won't be a motivation for anyone grabbing any one or more titles--he's just saying that it appears that Wesleyan University Press, et al. are giving away some valuable ebooks! Now, being the real man that he is , Gtrs is not really into most dance or theater. But, he did find one on theater lighting before electricity that he thought might be interesting, and so grabbed it. Mainly he's just passing along the above info for the benefit of his fellow MobileReaders who might be interested in dance and/or theater, and might like to have one or more of the ebooks--Free. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 02-22-2019 at 03:22 AM.