The Sage handbook of performance studies /

The Sage handbook of performance studies / Handbook of performance studies edited by D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera. - Thousand Oaks : Sage, ©2006. - 1 online resource (xxv, 554 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: performance studies at the intersections / Stages: queers, punks, and the utopian performative / Never, again / Performance and globalization / Performance, performativity, and cultural poiesis in practices of everyday life / Genealogies of performance studies / Memory, remembering, and histories of change: a performance praxis / Minstrelsy and mental metempsychosis: mid-nineteenth century American women's performance criticism / What to do when nuclear war breaks out / Shifting contexts in personal narrative performance / Constructed self: strategic and aesthetic choices in autobiographical performance / Strange case of the body in the performance of literature classroom: an enduring mystery / On the bias: from performance of literature to performance composition / Staging paradox: the local art of adaptation / Fieldwork in the performance studies classroom: learning objectives and the activist curriculum / Ambulant pedagogy / Pedagogy on the move: new intersections in (between) the educative and the performative / D. Soyini Madison, Judith Hamera -- Jóse Esteban Muñoz -- Rebecca Schneider -- Jon McKenzie -- Judith Hamera -- Shannon Jackson -- Della Pollock -- Gay Gibson Cima -- Tracy C. Davis -- Kristin M. Langellier, Eric E. Peterson -- Lynn C. Miller, Jacqueline Taylor -- Bruce Henderson -- Ruth Laurion Bowman, Michael S. Bowman -- Paul Edwards -- Nathan Stucky -- Mady Schutzman -- Greg Dimitriadis. Unlocking the doors for incarcerated women through performance and creative writing / Politics and ethics of performance pedagogy: toward a pedagogy of hope / Dwight Conquergood's "rethinking ethnography" / Rethinking ethnography: towards a critical cultural politics / Ethnography and the politics of adaptation: Leon Forrest's Divine Days / "She attempted to take over the choreography of the sex act": dance ethnography and the movement vocabulary of sex and labor / Staging fieldwork/performing human rights / Problem democracy is supposed to solve: the politics of community-based performance / Black performance studies: genealogies, politics, futures / Lethal theatre: performance, punishment, and the death penalty / Who is this ancestor? Performing memory in Ghana's slave castle-dungeons (a multimedia performance meditation) / Polemics and potential of theatre studies and performance / Kristin Bervig Valentine -- Norman K. Denzin -- D. Soyini Madison -- Dwight Conquergood -- Derek Goldman -- Barbara Browning -- D. Soyini Madison -- Jan Cohen-Cruz -- E. Patrick Johnson -- Dwight Conquergood -- Sandra L. Richards -- Jill Dolan.

This handbook brings together reviews of the major research in performance studies and identifies directions for further investigation. It serves scholars and students across the disciplines by delineating the scope of the field, the critical and interpretive methods used and the theoretical and ethical presumptions.


English.

1412976146 9781412976145 9781412973373 (electronic bk.) 1412973376 (electronic bk.) 1782689265 9781782689263 0761929312 9780761929314 (cloth ; alk. paper)

9780761929314 10.4135/978-1-41297-614-5 doi 2208466

Sage Publications, Inc. http://www.sage-ereference.com

2005014281

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Performing arts--Social aspects.
Arts du spectacle--Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Performing arts--Social aspects.
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