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A seminal text on what live performance is, what it means, and how
it can be theorised. Its second edition is required reading on many
theatre and performance studies courses. Uniquely controversial on
a subject which continues to be topical. Thoroughly updated to take
into account changes in media, scholarship and digital
technologies.
Over the past twenty years, 'performance' has emerged as a central analytical and critical concept. Now the focus of a burgeoning academic discipline, performance studies, it is also crucial to many other fields, including anthropology, sociology, communications, art history, cultural studies, linguistics and rhetoric. This collection brings together major texts articulating perspectives on performance and performativity. The multi-disciplinary approach of this collection reflects the growing importance of the concept of performance across a variety of disciplines. With a new introduction contextualising the concept's rise, and a full index to guide the reader through the work, this will be an invaluable reference tool for students and researchers alike.
A seminal text on what live performance is, what it means, and how
it can be theorised. Its second edition is required reading on many
theatre and performance studies courses. Uniquely controversial on
a subject which continues to be topical. Thoroughly updated to take
into account changes in media, scholarship and digital
technologies.
From Acting to Performance collects for the first time major essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander. Together these essays provide a survey of the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s. Auslander examines performance genres ranging from theatre and dance to performance art and stand-up comedy. In doing so he discusses an impressive line-up of practitioners including Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook, Willem Dafoe, the Wooster Group, Augusto Boal, Kate Bornstein, and Orlan. From Acting to Performance is a must for all students and scholars interested in contemporary theatre and performance.
"From Acting to Performance" collects for the first time major
essays by performance theorist and critic Philip Auslander.
Spanning over a decade, the essays survey the changes in acting
and performance that occurred during the transition from the
ecstatic theatre of the Vietnam era to the postmodern irony of the
1980s. Starting with the modern acting theories that inspired
theatrical experimentalists of the 1960s such as Jerzy Grotowski
and Jacques Copeau and ranging to 1990s performance artists and
stand-up comics such as Kate Bornstein and Rosanne Barr, "From
Acting to Performance" provides critical analyses of modernist
acting theories. Auslander argues that traditional theatre and
contemporary performance studies are united by shared concerns and
critical approaches.
This study sheds light on the political nature of postmodern
performance, the understandings of postmodern culture that underpin
it, and the particular strategies it employs. The first three
chapters are devoted to a discussion of postmodern culture, which
Philip Auslander sees as "mediatized" culture (borrowing
Baudrillard's term), and to the general positioning of political
art and performance within it. The five subsequent chapters are
devoted to comparative discussions of issues raised by this
positioning and by the critical strategies within specific
performance practices drawn from both the avant-garde and popular
performance, and to resistant representations of race and gender
and performance's engagement with an information-saturated culture.
Presence and Resistance will interest readers in theater, drama,
and performance studies as well as those concerned with issues in
postmodern theory, cultural theory, feminism, popular culture, and
media theory.
The conventional way of understanding what musicians do as
performers is to treat them as producers of sound; some even argue
that it is unnecessary to see musicians in performance as long as
one can hear them. But musical performance, counters Philip
Auslander, is also a social interaction between musicians and their
audiences, appealing as much to the eye as to the ear. In Concert:
Performing Musical Persona he addresses not only the visual means
by which musicians engage their audiences through costume and
physical gesture, but also spectacular aspects of performance such
as light shows. Although musicians do not usually enact fictional
characters on stage, they nevertheless present themselves to
audiences in ways specific to the performance situation.
Auslander's term to denote the musician's presence before the
audience is musical persona. While presence of a musical persona
may be most obvious within rock and pop music, the book's analysis
extends to classical music, jazz, blues, country, electronic music,
laptop performance, and music made with experimental digital
interfaces. The eclectic group of performers discussed include the
Beatles, Miles Davis, Keith Urban, Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Frank
Zappa, B. B. King, Jefferson Airplane, Virgil Fox, Keith Jarrett,
Glenn Gould, and Laurie Anderson.
Most people agree that witnessing a live performance is not the
same as seeing it on screen; however, most of the performances we
experience are in recorded forms. Some aver that the recorded form
of a performance necessarily distorts it or betrays it, focusing on
the relationship between the original event and its recorded
versions. By contrast, Reactivations focuses on how the audience
experiences the performance, as opposed to its documentation. How
does a spectator access and experience a performance from its
documentation? What is the value of performance documentation? The
book treats performance documentation as a specific discursive use
of media that arose in the middle of the 20th century alongside
such forms of performance as the Happening and that is different,
both discursively and as a practice, from traditional theater and
dance photography. Philip Auslander explores the phenomenal
relationship between the spectator who experiences the performance
from the document and the document itself. The document is not
merely a secondary iteration of the original event but a vehicle
that gives us meaningful access to the performance itself as an
artistic work.
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