Contesting performance
Subtitle: emerging sites of research
By: edited by Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms, C. J. Wan-Ling Wee.
Contributors: McKenzie, Jon, 1960-; Roms, Heike.; Wee, C. J. Wan-ling.
Series: Performance interventions
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230008458
Subjects: Performance -- Evaluation
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors * Editorial; title: J. McKenzie, H. Roms and C. J. W.-L. Wee * Absorbed in Singapore; title: P. Rae and R .Langenbach * Between the Study of Performance and Teatralidad: Confluences and Divergences of Approaches in Mexico; title: A. Prieto-Stambaugh * Interdisciplinary Field or Emerging Discipline: Performance Studies at the University of Sydney; title: G. McAulay * Performance Studies in Japan; title: U. Tadashi and Y. Takahashi * Going Native: Performance Studies in the Antipodes; title: S. Mazer * Critical Writing and Performance Studies: The Case of Journal Maska - Writing the Practice; title: B. Kunst * Rhetoric in Ruins: Performance Studies, Speech and the "Americanization" of the American University; title: S. Jackson * Moroccan Performance: From Eclipse to Hybridity; title: K. Amine * Performing and Healing: The Case of the Andean curanderos; title: L. Millones * Israeli Performance and Israeli Performance Research; title: S. Aronson-Lehavi and F. Rokem * Performance Studies and Gender Differentiation in a West African Ritual Play; title: D. Layiwola * The Readymade Discipline: Performance Studies' Methodologies in/and Australia; title: P. Eckersall and E. Scheer * Translate, or else: Marking glocal troubles of performance research in Croatia; title: M. Blazevic and L. Cale Feldman * The Performance of Performance Research; title: S. Peters * Democratic Actors and Post-Apartheid Drama: Contesting Performance in Contemporary South Africa; title: L. Kruger * The Practice Turn: Performance and the British Academy; title: H. Roms * The Many Lives of Performance: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; title: D. Taylor * Searching the Contemporary in the Traditional; title: S. Murgiyanto * Performance Research in China; title: Y. Haiping * Index Notes on Contributors * Editorial; title: J.McKenzie, H.Roms & C.J.W.-L.Wee * Absorbed in Singapore; title: P.Rae & R.Langenbach * Between the Study of Performance and Teatralidad: Confluences and Divergences of Approaches in Mexico; title: A.Prieto-Stambaugh * Interdisciplinary Field or Emerging Discipline: Performance Studies at the University of Sydney; title: G.McAulay * Performance Studies in Japan; title: U.Tadashi & Y.Takahashi * Going Native: Performance Studies in the Antipodes; title: S.Mazer * Critical Writing and Performance Studies: The Case of Journal Maska - Writing the Practice; title: B.Kunst * Rhetoric in Ruins: Performance Studies, Speech and the "Americanization" of the American University; title: S.Jackson * Moroccan Performance: From Eclipse to Hybridity; title: K.Amine * Performing and Healing: The Case of the Andean curanderos; title: L.Millones * Israeli Performance and Israeli Performance Research; title: S.Aronson-Lehavi & F.Rokem * Performance Studies and Gender Differentiation in a West African Ritual Play; title: D.Layiwola * The Readymade Discipline: Performance Studies' Methodologies in/and Australia; title: P.Eckersall & E.Scheer * Translate, or else: Marking glocal troubles of performance research in Croatia; title: M.Blazevic & L.Cale Feldman * The Performance of Performance Research; title: S.Peters * Democratic Actors and Post-Apartheid Drama: Contesting Performance in Contemporary South Africa; title: L.Kruger * The Practice Turn: Performance and the British Academy; title: H.Roms * The many lives of performance: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; title: D.Taylor * Searching the Contemporary in the Traditional; title: S.Murgiyanto * Performance Research in China; title: Y.Haiping * Index.