Cultural Performance - Ethnographic Approaches to Performance Studies

This engaging text introduces the burgeoning and interdisciplinary field of cultural performance, offering ethnographic approaches to performance as well as looking at the aesthetics of experience and performance theory. Examining cultural performance from anthropological, geographical and corporeal standpoints, this book offers many examples of the ways in which performance art and entertainment utilize cultural methods to deepen and enrich the practice. Featuring case studies from a rich cross-section of academics, chapters explore performances from regions as far flung as Bhutan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Ireland, New Zealand and the USA. With cultural performances as varied as Catholic rituals, Maori ceremonies, Monster Truck rallies, musicals, theatre and singing performances, this fascinating text compares performance as art and performance as cultural expression. Core reading for introductory and interdisciplinary modules on performance, this is also an ideal text for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of performance, visual arts, cultural studies or ethnography.>

Info autore

Kevin Landis is a scholar and chair of the Theatre and Dance Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA. His books include: Cultural Performance: New Perspectives on Performance Studies (2017). He has written about the Public Theater in American Theater Magazine (“A Mobile Movement”, spring 2017) and served as a visiting scholar at the company.Suzanne MacAulay is Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kevi Landis, Kevin Landis, Kevin Macaulay Landis, Suzanne Macaulay
• Editore: Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781137604248
• ISBN: 978-1-137-60424-8
• Pagine: 248
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; Theater, B, Culture, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Social & cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Arts, Global and International Culture, Global/International Culture, Global and International Theatre and Performance, Global/International Theatre and Performance