| Performance, Politics and Activism 2013 Edition Contributor(s): Lichtenfels, P. (Editor), Rouse, J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0230278566 ISBN-13: 9780230278561 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 700 |
| Series: Studies in International Performance |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (1.20 lbs) 274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of essays on politics, the performing arts, and various forms of activist performance uses the framework of performance studies to explore the engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media. It places these engagements on various scales of performance production within local, national and transnational structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power. Performance has always been a way of articulating the conditions of contemporary society, and of pointing through the body of the performance to ways of defining, understanding and changing those conditions. Throughout these essays performance takes place in the environments of heightened everyday action, the aesthetic and cultural activity of the performing arts, and in the activist performance of political commitment. These trajectories in performance studies delineate the way people identify themselves and communicate with one another, both in attempts to change the structures of governance they experience, and vitally, alongside those structures. |