| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : illustrations, music |
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Studies in international performance |
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Studies in international performance.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Intercultural Topography and an Acoustic Interculturalism -- The Performativity of Sound and the Soundscapes of Culture -- Acoustic Mimesis: Ethical Cadence and Sonic Violence in Tambours Sur La Digue -- (Echo)Locating Other-Shakespeares: An Aesthetics of Pop & the Ear of the Other -- Listening In/To Asia: Ong Keng Sen's Desdemona and the Polyphonies of Asia -- 'If Music Be The Food Of Love': -- Conclusion: After Authenticity: Naming the Intercultural -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Introduction: the intercultural topography and an acoustic interculturalism -- The performativity of sound and the soundscapes of culture -- Acoustic mimesis: ethical cadence and sonic violence in Tambours Sur La Digue -- (Echo)locating other-Shakespeares: an aesthetics of pop & the ear of the other -- Listening in/to Asia: Ong Keng Sen's Desdemona and the polyphonies of Asia -- "If music be the food of love": "fourth world" universals in Ong Keng Sen's Awaking -- Conclusion: after authenticity: naming the intercultural |
| Summary |
This book is timely in addressing the role of sound and music in intercultural performances. While the acoustics of performance is often regarded as equally important in experiencing the intercultural spectacle, little attention has been paid to sound's meaning and function in the ways that it generates meaning or contributes to the experience of viewing. Being the first sustained study of how an aural attention to performance shapes the intercultural experience, Tan poses critical questions about the performative nature of sound. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, Acoustic Interculturalism explores the ways in which music and the voice demarcate cultural histories and spaces, and how, in their intercultural use, these audial relations in turn acoustically reflect the cultural-political negotiations salient on the intercultural stage. Tan advances an importance of 'listening' to performance and through close analysis of a range of intercultural productions, he further postulates that sound can provide alternative means of accessing and comprehending the intercultural |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Intercultural communication in the performing arts.
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Sounds -- Anthropological aspects
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Music in the theater.
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Music -- Social aspects.
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Performing arts -- Asia
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Music.
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Theatre studies.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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Performing Arts.
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Intercultural communication in the performing arts
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Music in the theater
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Music -- Social aspects
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Performing arts
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Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137016959 |
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1137016957 |
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