Meritage releases Stage Presence

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STAGE PRESENCE
A Performing Arts Anthology Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794119-3-9
ISBN-10: 0-9794119-3-9
Release Date: 2007
Price: $22.00
Pages: 208

Meritage Press is delighted to announce the release of a historic document: Stage Presence: Conversations With Filipino American Performing Artists, Edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves, a musician and assistant professor of American Studies at the University of HawaiOEi at Manoa. In celebration, Meritage Press is offering a SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER (details at the end of this email).

Stage Presence: Conversations With Filipino American Performing Artists is a collection of essays and interviews with Filipino American performing artists. Each of the chapters features critically acclaimed and popular artists in their own right, who have also mentored hundreds of dancers, comedians, theater artists and musicians of all genres. In this rare collection, performers take time off stage to speak candidly about their creative processes, revealing personal frustrations and triumphs, while testifying to the challenges of what it could mean to be an artist of Filipino descent working and living in the United States.

Featuring: musicians Eleanor Academia, Gabe Baltazar Jr., Danongan Kalanduyan; bandleader and poet Jessica Hagedorn; choreographers and dancers Joel Jacinto, Alleluia Panis, and Pearl Ubungen; and theater artists Remé Grefalda, Allan Manalo and Ralph Peña. The book also includes a thought-provoking foreword by scholar and musician Ricardo D. Trimillos.

SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER:
Meritage Press is pleased to offer a SPECIAL RELEASE OFFER through November 30, 2007. For $16.00 for each book, you can obtain a copy of STAGE PRESENCE, a reduced rate from the book's retail price of $22.00<plus free shipping/handling (an approximate $4.00 value) to U.S. addresses. Just send a $16.00 check made out to "Meritage Press" to:

Eileen Tabios
Meritage Press
256 North Fork Crystal Springs Road
St. Helena, CA 94574

For international orders, please contact Meritage Press