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The Archive and the Repertoire - Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Paperback, New)
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The Archive and the Repertoire - Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Paperback, New)
Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book
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In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies
scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role
of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to
grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken
seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor
reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory-conveyed in gestures,
the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other
performances-offers alternative perspectives to those derived from
the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration
of historical processes of transnational contact. The Archive and
the Repertoire invites a remapping of the Americas based on
traditions of embodied practice.Examining various genres of
performance including demonstrations by the children of the
disappeared in Argentina, the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani,
and televised astrological readings by Univision personality Walter
Mercado, Taylor explores how the archive and the repertoire work
together to make political claims, transmit traumatic memory, and
forge a new sense of cultural identity. Through her consideration
of performances such as Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena's show
Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit . . . , Taylor illuminates how
scenarios of discovery and conquest haunt the Americas, trapping
even those who attempt to dismantle them. Meditating on events like
those of September 11, 2001 and media representations of them, she
examines both the crucial role of performance in contemporary
culture and her own role as witness to and participant in
hemispheric dramas. The Archive and the Repertoire is a compelling
demonstration of the many ways that the study of performance
enables a deeper understanding of the past and present, of
ourselves and others.
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