Professing Performance
Title | Professing Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Shannon Jackson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2004-04-08 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521656054 |
Today's academic discourse is filled with the word 'perform'. Nestled amongst a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of contemporary inquiries. For students, artists, and scholars of performance and theatre, this development is intriguing and complex. By examining the history of theatre studies and related institutions and by comparing the very different disciplinary interpretations and developments that led to this engagement, Professing Performance offers ways of placing performance theory and performance studies in context.
Professing Performance
Title | Professing Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Shannon Jackson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2004-04-08 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1107320046 |
Today's academic discourse is filled with the word 'perform'. Nestled amongst a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of contemporary inquiries. For students, artists, and scholars of performance and theatre, this development is intriguing and complex. By examining the history of theatre studies and related institutions and by comparing the very different disciplinary interpretations and developments that led to this engagement, Professing Performance offers ways of placing performance theory and performance studies in context. This 2004 book considers the connection amongst a range of performance forms such as oratory, theatre, dance, and performance art and explores performance as both a humanistic and technical field of education. Throughout, she explores the institutional history of performance in the US academy in order to revise current debates around the role of the arts and humanities in higher education.
Professing Performance
Title | Professing Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Shannon Jackson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | PERFORMING ARTS |
ISBN | 9781107321274 |
This 2004 book shows the relationship between past institutional histories and tradition and current scholarly and artistic practices in performance.
Performance and Ethnography
Title | Performance and Ethnography PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Harrop |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2013-07-16 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1443850071 |
Performance and Ethnography: Dance, Drama, Music revisits the territory of the performance orientation, touching on anthropology, dance, folklore, music and theatre to look for present trends in both the ethnography of performance and performance ethnography. One of the main concerns of this volume is with an embodied, affective and sensory ethnography that privileges encounters between ethnographer, participants and practices as key to understanding and knowledge. Another is the extent to which individuals are shaped by their engagement with ethnographic practice in the midst of migration, diffusion, revival, appropriation and commodification of performance. A third is the interface of academic disciplines with the idea of performance, and the way in which academics and practitioners are drawn to ethnography to better understand, negotiate, perform and profess their diverse fields. Individual chapters include a refreshed interface for performance studies and anthropology through new approaches to ritual; a consideration of performance studies through an ethnography of PSi; the emplaced body as a tool for ethnographic research; somatic practice in dance as a mode of ethnography; artisanal musical instrument making as performance; the commodification of traditional performance; and an introductory overview that reflects shifting ethnographic perspectives on traditional performances.
The Rise of Performance Studies
Title | The Rise of Performance Studies PDF eBook |
Author | J. Harding |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2011-05-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0230306055 |
Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that define Performance Studies. The Rise of Performance Studies is the first collection of essays to critically examine the profound contributions that Schechner has made to Performance Studies as a discipline.
Performance
Title | Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Taylor |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2015-12-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0822375125 |
"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.
Theories of Performance
Title | Theories of Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Bell |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 641 |
Release | 2008-02-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1412926386 |
Theories of Performance invites students to explore the possibilities of performance for creating, knowing, and staking claims to the world. Each chapter surveys, explains, and illustrates classic, modern, and postmodern theories that answer the questions, "What is performance?" "Why do people perform?" and "How does performance constitute our social and political worlds?" The chapters feature performance as the entry point for understanding texts, drama, culture, social roles, identity, resistance, and technologies.