| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages) |
| Series |
Performance interventions |
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Performance interventions
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| Contents |
Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Contesting Performance in an Age of Globalization; J. McKenzie, C.J.W.-L. Wee & H. Roms -- PART I: INSTITUTIONALIZING PERFORMANCE STUDIES -- The Many Lives of Performance: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; D. Taylor -- Interdisciplinary Field or Emerging Discipline?: Performance Studies at the University of Sydney; G. McAuley -- The Practice Turn: Performance and the British Academy; H. Roms -- Rhetoric in Ruins: Performance Studies, Speech, and the 'Americanization' of the American University; S. Jackson -- Performance Studies in Japan; U. Tadashi & T. Yuichiro -- PART II: CONTESTING THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE THROUGH PERFORMANCE -- Between Antipodality and Relational Performance: Performance Studies in Australia; E. Scheer & P. Eckersall -- Critical Writing and Performance Studies: The Case of Slovenian Journal Maska; B. Kunst -- 'Say as I Do': Performance Research in Singapore; R. Langenbach & P. Rae -- The Performance of Performance Research: A Report from Germany; S. Peters -- Translate, or Else: Marking the Global Troubles of Performance Research in Croatia; C. Feldman & M. Bla°evic -- PART III: THE POWER OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICE -- Performing Postcoloniality in the Moroccan Scene: Emerging Sites of Hybridity; K. Amine -- Searching for the Contemporary in the Traditional: Contemporary Indonesian Dance in Southeast Asia; S. Murgiyanto -- Word and Action in Israeli Performance; S. Aronson-Lehavi & F. Rokem -- Democratic Actors and Post-Apartheid Drama: Contesting Performance in Contemporary South Africa; L. Kruger -- Index |
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Introduction : contesting performance in an age of globalization / Jon McKenzie, C.J.W.-L. Wee, and Heike Roms -- The many lives of performance : the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics / Diana Taylor -- Interdisciplinary field or emerging discipline? : performance studies at the University of Sydney / Gay McAuley -- The practice turn : performance and the British Academy / Heike Roms -- Rhetoric in ruins : performance studies, speech, and the 'Americanization' of the American University / Shannon Jackson -- Performance studies in Japan / Uchino Tadashi and Takahashi Yuichiro -- Between antipodality and relational performance : performance studies in Australia / Edward Scheer and Peter Eckersall -- Critical writing and performance studies : the case of the Slovenian journal Maska / Bojana Kunst -- 'Say as I do' : performance research in Singapore / Ray Langenbach and Paul Rae -- The performance of performance research : a report from Germany / Sybylle Peters -- Translate, or else : marking the glocal troubles of performance research in Croatia / Lada Čale Feldman and Marin Blažević -- Performing postcoloniality in the Moroccan scene : emerging sites of hybridity / Khalid Amine -- Searching for the contemporary in the traditional : contemporary Indonesian dance in Southeast Asia / Sal Murgiyanto -- Word and action in Israeli performance / Sharon Aronson-Lehavi and Freddie Rokem -- Democratic actors and post-apartheid drama : contesting performance in contemporary South Africa/ Loren Kruger |
| Summary |
Contesting Performance is a landmark collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Aimed at students and researchers around the world, the collection functions as a critical reader on diverse, localised approaches to studying performance, while also revealing networks of practical and theoretical concerns that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies |
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"Contesting Performance is a unique and dynamic collection of essays by leading international scholars that addresses the global development of cultural performance research. The volume functions as a critical reader on diverse, localised approaches to studying performance, using case studies from Mexico, Australia, Japan, Israel and Croatia, amongst others. Featuring contributors such as Freddie Rokem, Shannon Jackson, Lauren Kruger and Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, this landmark collection will also reveal networks of practical and theoretical concerns that contest dominant models of performance studies"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Performance -- Evaluation
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Performance -- Evaluation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McKenzie, Jon, 1960-
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Roms, Heike
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Wee, C. J. Wan-ling
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| ISBN |
9780230279421 |
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0230279422 |
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1282743376 |
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9781282743373 |
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