| Description |
1 online resource (171 p.) |
| Series |
The Basics Ser |
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The Basics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 What Is Performance? Framing Performance -- Performance in Everyday Life -- Rituals -- Performativity -- The Anti-Performance Prejudice -- Not Only Bodies Perform -- What Is Performance Studies? -- Performance Ethnography and Practice -- Why Performance? -- Further Reading/Research -- 2 Performance Art -- What Is Performance Art? -- The Origins of Performance Art -- Feminist Performance Art -- Expanding the Boundaries of Performance Art |
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Extreme Body Performance -- Performance Art and Capitalism -- Further Reading/research -- 3 Performance and Performativity -- Repetition and Re-Enactment -- Liveness and Mediation -- Spectatorship, Community, Participation -- Performance, Performativity and the Performative -- Performance Failure -- Further Reading -- 4 Identity and Lived Experience -- Performance, Representation and Visibility -- Performance and Subjectivity -- Performance and Lived Experience -- Performance, Authenticity and Cultural Appropriation -- Further Reading -- 5 Performance Activism -- Performance as Activism |
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What Exactly Is Performance Activism? -- A Brief (And Incomplete) History of Performance Activism -- When Performance Activism Backfires -- A Few Lessons in Performance Activism -- Further Reading -- 6 Performance Research Methods -- What Are Research Methods? -- Archival Research and Performance Historiography -- Close Readings -- Performance Ethnography -- Autoethnography -- Oral History Performance -- Performative Writing -- Staging Performance -- Further Reading/research -- 7 Performance Studies -- The Birth of Performance Studies -- Performance Studies Around the World |
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Performance and the Status Quo -- Speculative Futures of Performance Studies -- Why Performance Studies, Then? -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000456691 |
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1000456692 |
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