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. INDICE: Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Contesting Performance in anAge of Globalization; J.McKenzie, C.J.W.-L.Wee ; H.Roms - PART I: INSTITUTIONALIZING PERFORMANCE STUDIES - The Many Lives of Performance: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; D.Taylor - Interdisciplinary Field or Emerging Discipline?: Performance Studies at the University of Sydney; G.McAuley- The Practice Turn: Performance and the British Academy; H.Roms - Rhetoric in Ruins: Performance Studies, Speech, and the 'Americanization' of the American University; S.Jackson - Performance Studies in Japan; U.Tadashi ; T.Yuichiro- PART II: CONTESTING THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE THROUGH PERFORMANCE - Between Antipodality and Relational Performance: Performance Studies in Australia; E.Scheer ; P.Eckersall - Critical Writing and Performance Studies: The Case of Slovenian Journal Maska ; B.Kunst - 'Say as I Do': Performance Research in Singapore; R.Langenbach ; P.Rae - The Performance of Performance Research: A Report from Germany; S.Peters - Translate, or Else: Marking the Global Troubles of Performance Research in Croatia; C.Feldman ; M.BlaE>evic - PART III: THE POWER OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICE - Performing Postcoloniality in the Moroccan Scene: Emerging Sites of Hybridity; K.Amine - Searching for the Contemporary in the Traditional: Contemporary Indonesian Dance in Southeast Asia; S.Murgiyanto - Word and Action in Israeli Performance; S.Aronson-Lehavi ; F.Rokem - Democratic Actors and Post-Apartheid Drama: Contesting Performance in Contemporary South Africa; L.Kruger - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-00845-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés