Aesthetics in performance
Subtitle: formations of symbolic construction and experience
By: edited by Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer.
Contributors: Hobart, Angela.; Kapferer, Bruce.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Aesthetics; Experience; Symbolism; Ritual; Performing arts -- Philosophy
Description: "In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia." "Each essay enters into a discussion of the "logic" of aesthetic processes exploring their social and political and symbolic import. The aim is above all to explore the way artistic and aesthetic practices in performance produce and structure experience."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.