ISBN:
9781137603951
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (259 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.48399999999998
Keywords:
Performing arts-Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Images -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Aesthetics of Experience -- 1 Performing Traditions -- What Is Performance? -- What Is Cultural Performance? -- What Are Traditions and Rituals? -- Aesthetics, Experience, and Presence -- Case Study: David Afriyie Donkor, Trickster's Double-ness: The Cultural Performance of Akan Storytelling -- References -- 2 Experiencing Community -- Cultural Performance -- Ethnography -- Participant Observation -- Community -- Temporary Communities -- Framing -- Audience -- Case Study: Tomie Hahn, Arenas of Sense-Monster Truck rallies as cultural performance -- References -- Part II Place and Space -- 3 The Architecture of Performance Space -- Investing the Space -- An Empty Room to a Stage -- The Seeing Place -- House of Theatre, House of Worship -- Ambulatory Architectural Experience -- The Urban Stage -- Case Study: Sean F. Edgecomb, Architecting Queer Space: Charles Ludlam's Bluebeard in the West Village -- References -- 4 Topography of Performance -- Picnics to Stage Space -- What Is a Marae? -- Cultural Performance and Space -- The Final Act -- Representation of a Cultural Re-enactment -- Las Posadas -- Case Study: Callie Oppedisano, "This is the Place, in this Wide Open Space": Utah! America's Most Spectacular Outdoor Musical Drama -- References -- Part III The Sensory Body -- 5 The Somatic Experience -- Taste and Nostalgia -- Sonic Intentions -- Theatrical Co-Presences -- Case Study: Sean Williams, The Singing Body as a Fieldwork Site -- References -- 6 Bodies in Nature -- Winter Festival -- Nonhuman Animal Frolics -- Interspecies Performance -- Spontaneous Animals -- Aesthetics -- Quality -- Case Study: How to Build a Forest with Lisa D'Amour, Katie Pearl and Shawn Hall -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.
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