| Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research 2010 Edition Contributor(s): McKenzie, J. (Editor), Roms, H. (Editor), Wee, C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0230008453 ISBN-13: 9780230008458 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2009 Annotation: "Contesting Performance" is a unique and dynamic collection of essays by leading international scholars that addresses the global development of cultural performance research. The volume functions as a critical reader on diverse, localised approaches to studying performance, using case studies from Mexico, Australia, Japan, Israel and Croatia, amongst others. Featuring contributors such as Freddie Rokem, Shannon Jackson, Lauren Kruger and Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, this landmark collection will also reveal networks of practical and theoretical concerns that contest dominant models of performance studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Reference - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.072 |
| LCCN: 2009044235 |
| Series: Performance Interventions |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (0.80 lbs) 261 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies. |