Routledge Key Guides
Fifty Key Stage Musicals
2nd Edition
Edited
By Robert W. Schneider, Shannon Agnew
December 21, 2026
The second edition of Fifty Key Stage Musicals provides a round-up of fifty groundbreaking musicals that fundamentally shaped the evolution of musical theatre in the English-speaking world, offering insightful analyses of their creative processes, cultural impact, and enduring legacy. Readers will ...
Fifty Key Performance Artists
1st Edition
Edited
By T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, Adriana Disman
March 31, 2026
Fifty Key Performance Artists is a critical introduction to some of the most influential and innovative performance artists from the emergence of the genre post-World War II to the present, whose work has largely been underrecognized and underacknowledged within an English-language context. ...
Comics Studies: The Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Frederick Luis Aldama
March 20, 2026
An accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Comics Studies. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in the field. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, the...
Argumentation: The Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Edward Schiappa
November 27, 2025
This book is an accessible reference guide to the key concepts associated with argumentation theory, criticism, and pedagogy. Providing an encyclopedic‑style synthesis, the book defines and describes 175 essential concepts of argumentation, and provides discussion of the meaning, application, and ...
Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts
4th Edition
By Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin
January 22, 2025
Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. Fully revised and ...
Applied Theatre: The Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Kay Hepplewhite
October 24, 2024
This accessible book outlines the key ideas that define the global phenomenon of applied theatre, not only its theoretical underpinning, its origins and practice, but also providing eight real-life examples drawn from a diversity of forms and settings. The clearly arranged topic sections entitled ...
Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie-Claude Jipguep-Akhtar, Nazneen Khan
October 15, 2024
Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contributions of Black social thinkers. It implores readers to integrate the research of Black scholars into their teaching and research, and fundamentally, to ...
Music Business: The Key Concepts
2nd Edition
By Richard Strasser
October 01, 2024
Music Business: The Key Concepts, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to the terminology commonly used in the music business today. This updated second edition responds to the music industry's increasingly digital and ever-evolving environment, with definitions from a number of relevant fields...
Fifty Key Improv Performers: Actors, Troupes, and Schools from Theatre, Film, and TV
1st Edition
By Matt Fotis
September 12, 2024
Fifty Key Improv Performers highlights the history, development, and impact of improvisational theatre by highlighting not just key performers, but institutions, training centers, and movements to demonstrate the ways improv has shaped contemporary performance both onstage and onscreen. The book ...
Listening: The Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Elizabeth S. Parks, Meara H. Faw, Laura R. Lane
August 19, 2024
A vital and comprehensive starting place for understanding the key concepts, this book explores 177 diverse types and styles of listening named in academic scholarship to date. This book is an encyclopaedic-style synthesis of existing literature related to listening styles and types. Through ...
Secular Religions: The Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Tamás Nyirkos
August 06, 2024
Secular Religions: The Key Concepts provides a concise guide to those ideologies, worldviews, and social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that are most often described as the modern counterparts of traditional religions. Although there are many other terms in use (quasi, pseudo, ersatz,...
Fifty Key Theatre Designers
1st Edition
By Arnold Aronson
November 21, 2023
Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, costume, lighting, and projection designers since the Renaissance. Developments of scenic design are traced from the introduction of perspective painting...