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UNINA9910461629303321 |
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Schwartz Peggy |
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The dance claimed me [[electronic resource] ] : a biography of Pearl Primus / / Peggy and Murray Schwartz |
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New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, 2011 |
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1-283-11434-8 |
9786613114341 |
0-300-15643-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Dancers - United States |
African American dancers |
Choreographers - United States |
African American dance - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- One From Laventille to Camp Wo-Chi-Ca -- Two A Life in Dance -- Three African Transformations -- Four Teaching, Traveling, and the FBI -- Five Trinidad Communities -- Six Return to Africa -- Seven The PhD -- Eight The Turn to Teaching and Return to the Stage -- NINE Academic Trials and Triumphs -- Ten Transmitting the Work -- Eleven Barbados: Return to the Sea -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix I: Pearl Primus Timeline -- Appendix II: Interviews -- A Note on Sources and Documentation -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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"Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In The Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an intimate perspective on her life and explore her influences on American culture, dance, and education. They trace Primus's path from her childhood in Port of Spain, Trinidad, through her rise as an influential international dancer, |
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an early member of the New Dance Group (whose motto was "Dance is a weapon"), and a pioneer in dance anthropology. Primus traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, Israel, the Caribbean, and Africa, and she played an important role in presenting authentic African dance to American audiences. She engendered controversy in both her private and professional lives, marrying a white Jewish man during a time of segregation and challenging black intellectuals who opposed the "primitive" in her choreography. Her political protests and mixed-race tours in the South triggered an FBI investigation, even as she was celebrated by dance critics and by contemporaries like Langston Hughes. For The Dance Claimed Me, the Schwartzes interviewed more than a hundred of Primus's family members, friends, and_fellow artists,_as well as_other individuals to create a vivid portrayal of a life filled with passion, drama, determination, fearlessness, and brilliance"-- |
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UNINA9910255032203321 |
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Autore |
Josselin Jean-Michel |
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Titolo |
Statistical tools for program evaluation : methods and applications to economic policy, public health, and education / / Jean-Michel Josselin, Benoît Le Maux |
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Cham : , : Springer, , [2017] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
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Evaluation research (Social action programs) - Statistical methods |
Economic policy - Evaluation - Statistical methods |
Public health - Evaluation - Statistical methods |
Educational evaluation - Statistical methods |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Statistical Tools for Program Evaluation: introduction and overview -- Part I: Identifying the context of the program. Description of problems and needs, assessment of relationships among variables -- Sampling and construction of variables -- Descriptive statistics and interval |
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estimation -- Measuring and visualizing associations -- Econometric analysis -- Estimation of welfare changes -- Part II: Ex ante evaluation. Assessment of different policy strategies that might solve the problems -- Financial appraisal -- Budget impact analysis -- Cost benefit analysis -- Cost effectiveness analysis -- Multi-criteria decision analysis -- Part III: Ex post evaluation. Assessment of the effects of a strategy after its implementation -- Follow-up by benchmarking -- Randomized controlled experiments -- Quasi-experiments. |
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This book provides a self-contained presentation of the statistical tools required for evaluating public programs, as advocated by many governments, the World Bank, the European Union, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. After introducing the methodological framework of program evaluation, the first chapters are devoted to the collection, elementary description and multivariate analysis of data as well as the estimation of welfare changes. The book then successively presents the tools of ex-ante methods (financial analysis, budget planning, cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness and multi-criteria evaluation) and ex-post methods (benchmarking, experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation). The step-by-step approach and the systematic use of numerical illustrations equip readers to handle the statistics of program evaluation. It not only offers practitioners from public administrations, consultancy firms and nongovernmental organizations the basic tools and advanced techniques used in program assessment, it is also suitable for executive management training, upper undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as for self-study. |
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