Bodies in Commotion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies in Commotion write by Carrie Sandahl. This book was released on 2009-12-23. Bodies in Commotion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bodies in Commotion
Bodies in Commotion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies in Commotion write by Carrie Sandahl. This book was released on 2009-12-10. Bodies in Commotion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn." -Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst This groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as "bodies in commotion"-bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance. In the book's essays, leading critics and artists explore topics that range from theater and dance to multi-media performance art, agit-prop, American Sign Language theater, and wheelchair sports. Bodies in Commotion is the first collection to consider the mutually interpretive qualities of these two emerging fields, producing a dynamic new resource for artists, activists, and scholars.
In Concert
In Concert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Concert write by Philip Auslander. This book was released on 2021-01-04. In Concert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Performing Glam Rock
Performing Glam Rock - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Glam Rock write by Philip Auslander. This book was released on 2006. Performing Glam Rock available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the many ways glam rock paved the way for new explorations of identity in terms of gender, sexuality, and performance
Reactivations
Reactivations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reactivations write by Philip Auslander. This book was released on 2018-05. Reactivations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
