Author : Kimberly Jannarone
Release : 2015-11-06
Genre : Performing Arts
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Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right - 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 Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right write by Kimberly Jannarone. This book was released on 2015-11-06. Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding “radical” and “experimental” performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The book brings to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes the performances intended to oppose. In so doing, the volume explores a central paradox: how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by leading international scholars pose engaging questions about the historical avant-garde, vanguard acts, and the complex role of artistic innovation and live performance in global politics. Focusing on performances that work against progressive and democratic ideas (including scripted drama, staged suicide, choral dance, terrorism, rallies, and espionage), the book demonstrates how many compelling performance ideals—unification, exaltation, immersion—are, in themselves, neither moral nor immoral; they are only emotional and aesthetic urges that can be powerfully channeled into a variety of social and political outlets.