Cultural performance : ethnographic approaches to performance studies /: ethnographic approaches to performance studies. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kevin Landis and Suzanne Macaulay.
• Authors: (Professor of Theatre), Landis, Kevin; MacAulay, Suzanne P (Suzanne Pollock), 1943-
• Contents: Introduction; Kevin Landis and Suzanne MacAulay, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.- SECTION I: AESTHETICS AND EXPERIENCE.- 1. Performing Tradition; Kevin Landis, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.- Case Study: Trickster's Double-ness: Performance, Ideology and Anansesem Storytelling; David Afryie Donkor, Texas A&M University, USA.- 2. Experiencing Community; Suzanne MacAulay, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.- Case Study: Arenas of Sense - Monster Truck Rallies as Cultural Performance; Tomie Hahn, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.- SECTION II: PLACE/SPACE.- 3. The Architecture of Performance Space; Kevin Landis, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.- Case Study: Architecting Queer Space: Charles Ludlam's Bluebeard in the West Village; Sean F. Edgecomb, College of Staten Island, CUNY, USA.- 4. The Topography of Performance; Suzanne MacAulay, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.- Case Study: Utah! America's Most Spectacular Outdoor Musical Drama; Callie Oppedisano, Independent Scholar, USA.- SECTION III: THE BODY.- 5. The Somatic Experience; Kevin Landis, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.- Case Study: The Singing Body as a Fieldwork Site; Sean Williams, Evergreen State College, USA.- 6. Bodies in Nature; Suzanne MacAulay, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.- Case Study: How to Build a Forest; Interviw with PearlDamour (theatre company) and Shawn Hall (visual artist).- Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: 306.484; Performing arts -- Social aspects; Performance art -- Social aspects; Ethnology; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Performing Arts -- General; Social Science -- General; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Dance & other performing arts; Cultural studies; Theater; Ethnography; Performing arts; Culture; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Theatre studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137603951
• Related ISBNs: 9781137604248; 9781137604231
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