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A Cultural History of Leisure in the Modern Age
A Cultural History of Leisure in the Modern Age
In the Modern Age (1920-present) leisure became inseparable from modern life. Rising incomes, less time at work, and more forms of available recreations fostered an intensive culti...
A Cultural History of Leisure In the Medieval Age
A Cultural History of Leisure In the Medieval Age
During the Middle Ages (500-1450), active leisure was considered a productive activity, distinct from work and devotional pursuits. Running, fencing, playing ball, swimming, dancin...
The Beat of a Different Drummer
The Beat of a Different Drummer
What does music making “look” like when viewed from a leisure studies perspective and the point of view of a drummer as participant observer? This chapter reports on four years of ...
Time, Habits, and Consumer Durables
Time, Habits, and Consumer Durables
This chapter reviews the most important sources of non-separability. In models with habit formation the marginal utility provided by today’s consumption depends on past consumption...
Sarah Bernhardt at Home
Sarah Bernhardt at Home
This chapter analyzes Sarah Bernhardt at Home to show how Sarah Bernhardt, by exploring the different spaces that together represent “the home,” reveals her home's expansive horizo...
Entering into an Indigenous Cypher
Entering into an Indigenous Cypher
Although music-dance making would seem, intuitively, to be part of leisure studies, music and dance very seldom appear beyond the simple form of “activity” and rarely as music-danc...