| Performance Studies in Canada Contributor(s): Levin, Laura (Editor), Schweitzer, Marlis (Editor) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0773549854 ISBN-13: 9780773549852 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - History | Canada - General |
| Dewey: 791.097 |
| LCCN: 2017416737 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.65 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since its inception as an institutionalized discipline in the United States during the 1980s, performance studies has focused on the interdisciplinary analysis of a broad spectrum of cultural behaviours including theatre, dance, folklore, popular entertainments, performance art, protests, cultural rituals, and the performance of self in everyday life. Performance Studies in Canada brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the national emergence of performance studies as a field in Canada. To date, no systematic attempts has been made to consider how this methodology is being taught, applied, and rethought in Canadian contexts, and Canadian performance studies scholarship remains largely unacknowledged within international discussions about the discipline. This collection fills this gap by identifying multiple origins of performance studies scholarship in the country and highlighting significant works of performance theory and history that are rooted in Canadian culture. Essays illustrate how specific institutional conditions and cultural investments - Indigenous, francophone, multicultural, and more - produce alternative articulations of "performance" and reveal national identity as a performative construct. A state-of-the-art work on the state of the field, Performance Studies in Canada foregrounds national and global performance knowledge to invigorate the discipline around the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Levin, Laura: - CA |