Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance
Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781138961593
Subjects: Performing arts; Music, performance
Description: Brings together dynamic perspectives on the concept of liveness in the performing arts, engaging with the live through the particular analytical focus of audiences and experience. The status and significance of the live in performance has become contested: perceived as variously as a marker of ontological difference, a promotional slogan, or a mystical evocation of cultural value. Moving beyond debates about the relationship between the live and the mediated, this collection considers what we can know and say about liveness in terms of processes of experiencing and processes of making.