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The Ends of Performance (Paperback, New)
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The Ends of Performance (Paperback, New)
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A broad and inclusive volume of the celebrations and critiques of
performance arts Focusing on the living arts-dance, theatre, music,
performance art, ritual, and popular entertainment-performance
studies expands our understanding of "performance" as both a vital
artistic practice and a means by which to understand social and
cultural processes. Bridging the gap between cultural studies,
performing arts, and anthropology, performance studies explores
myriad ways in which performance creates meaning and shapes our
everyday lives. The broadest and most inclusive volume to date, The
Ends of Performance both celebrates and critiques the
institutionalization of the field. Only recently has the field
given keen attention to the interpretive force and consequences of
performance events, and it is these consequences that the The Ends
of Performance articulates. Here performance studies illuminates
the complex social and cultural formations of our time--the impact
of virtual technology, the racialized discourses of legal and
cultural citizenship, the impact of new medical discourses, and the
medicalization of the body. Featuring work by leading theorists
such as Joseph Roach, Diana Taylor, and Richard Schechner,
excursions into performative writing by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and
Della Pollock, and texts by performance artists Orlan and Deb
Margolin, The Ends of Performance illuminates the provocative
intellectual ends which motivate these varied approaches to
performing writing, and to writing performance.
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