| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 298 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: People, memory and place: ideas for a consideration of Welsh performance; 2: Amgueddfa: museum; 3: Treftadaeth: heritage; 4: Gŵyl: festival; 5: Theatre Places; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Combining ideas from the field of performance studies with examples of Welsh culture that can be analysed in terms of performance - the museum, heritage, festival and theatre - this book explores the way in which such cultural performances contribute to a shared sense of identity among participants. The discussion locates performance as a general and unifying function of Welsh culture, one that both reveals and sustains distinct relationships between people, memory and place. In arguing that the performative drive in Welsh culture, or performance as poiesis (as cultural construction), is responsible for the creative scope of Welsh culture, the discussion examines how performance in specific contexts mediates questions of identity, how it reveals reflections of ourselves, and how it constitutes our remembrances of others and of history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Preface is written in Welsh |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 5, 2018) |
| Subject |
Theater and society -- Wales
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Performing arts -- Social aspects -- Wales
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Performing arts -- Social aspects
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Theater and society
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Wales
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781786832436 |
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1786832437 |
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