Performance: pt. 1. Identity and the self

Performance: pt. 1. Identity and the self

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  • Author: Philip Auslander
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 9780415255158
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 488

This collection reflects not only the multidisciplinary nature of current thinking about performance, but also the complex and contested nature of the concept itself.


Play, Performance, and Identity

Play, Performance, and Identity

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  • Author: Matt Omasta
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317703243
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 180

Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by corporate entities with social, political, and business agendas. As such, it is critical that scholars understand and explicate the ideological underpinnings of played-through experiences and how they affect the player/performers who engage in them. This book explores how people play and why their play matters, with a particular interest in how ludic experiences are often constructed and controlled by the interests of institutions, including corporations, non-profit organizations, government agencies, religious organizations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Each chapter explores diverse sites of play. From theme parks to comic conventions to massively-multiplayer online games, they probe what roles the designers of these experiences construct for players, and how such play might affect participants' identities and ideologies. Scholars of performance studies, leisure studies, media studies and sociology will find this book an essential reference when studying facets of play.


Performance, Culture, and Identity

Performance, Culture, and Identity

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  • Author: Jean Haskell
  • Publisher: Praeger
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

This volume is based on the premise that artistic performance is epistemological, a way of knowing self, culture, and other. The nine essays in this book, based on a broad range of ethnic, racial, and gender groups, share a common interest in exploring how performance reveals, shapes, and sometimes transforms personal and cultural identity. Editors Fine and Speer begin by examining the interdisciplinary roots of performance studies and the role of performance studies in the field of communication. They also discuss the power of performance to shape personal and cultural identity. The first two chapters explore the ritual nature of performance in two different cultural contexts: an African-American church service and an Appalachian storytelling event of the legendary Ray Hicks. In both arenas, the performers act as shamans, transporting the audience from their everyday, secular lives to the higher ground of the mythic spheres of heroic and fantastic events. The next three chapters discuss the notion of place and performance in various landscapes--the English countryside, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the farmland of the Midwest. Through analysis of the speech and songs of a modern Sussex yeoman, the ghost tales of Appalachian storytellers, and the narratives of Midwest farmers coping with hard times, the authors reveal a variety of ways in which narrative performances function to preserve people's relationship with the land. The last four chapters share a focus on women as storytellers. One chapter offers a feminist critique of personal narrative research and challenges normative assumptions about the storytelling behavior of women. Another chapter interprets a narration of a Galician woman's typical day to reveal how the performance expresses deeply held attitudes and beliefs of her cultural community. Words are not the only medium that women use to tell their stories. The next chapter examines the story cloths of Hmong women refugees from Laos as intercultural and dialogical performances. The last chapter explores self-discovery and identity in the storytelling of a woman in the last years of her life. This volume is particularly representative of the ways in which communication scholars approach performance studies, but will also interest researchers and students of folklore, anthropology, sociology, theatre, and related disciplines.


Identity Play; or Who You Are If You Think You Are

Identity Play; or Who You Are If You Think You Are

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  • Author: Jon Jory
  • Publisher: Stage Partners
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 36

A series of comedic and dramatic vignettes exploring who we are and who we want to be. With endless choices and expectations, do our actions define us or do our intentions? What about our words? What about the way we dress, the friends we keep, or how we act online? Is who we think we are different than how other people see us? In such a complex, face-paced world, it's vital to slow-down, reflect...and laugh. Drama (with comedy) One-act. 35-40 minutes 10-40 actors, gender flexible


Performing Identity and Gender in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts

Performing Identity and Gender in Literature, Theatre and the Visual Arts

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  • Author: Panayiota Chrysochou
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1443878588
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 135

This volume presents a compelling mélange of chapters focusing on the myriad ways in which performance and gender are inextricably bound to identity. It shows how gender, performance and identity play themselves out in various ways, contexts and genres, in order to illumine the very instability and fluidity of identity as a static category. As such, it is a must-read for anyone interested in gender studies, identity politics and literature in general.


Transnational Performance, Identity and Mobility in Asia

Transnational Performance, Identity and Mobility in Asia

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  • Author: Iris H. Tuan
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9811071071
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 164

This pivot considers the history, methodology and practice of Asian theatre and investigates the role of Asian theatre and film in contemporary transnational Asian identities. It critically reviews the topics of transnationalism and intercultural political difference, arguing that the concept of Transnational Asian theatre or 'TransAsia' can promote cultural diversity and social transformation. The book notably offers an understanding of theatre as a cultural laboratory, a repository for diverse histories and a forum for intercultural dialogue, allowing for a better understanding of sociocultural patterns surrounding transnational Asian identity and mobility.


Musical Identities

Musical Identities

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  • Author: Raymond A. R. MacDonald
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • ISBN: 0198509324
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 223

Music plays an important role in all our lives, and is a channel through which we can express emotions, thoughts, political statements, and social relationships. However, just as music can be a channel through which we express ourselves, it can also have a profound influence on our own developing sense of identity. This is the first book to explore the powerful effect that music can have as we develop our sense of identity, from adolescence through to adulthood. Bringing together leading experts from psychology and music, it will be a valuable addition to the music psychology literature, and essential for music psychologists, social and developmental psychologists, and educational psychologists.


Culture, Performance and Identity. Paths of Communication in Kenya

Culture, Performance and Identity. Paths of Communication in Kenya

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  • Author: Kimani Njogu
  • Publisher: African Books Collective
  • ISBN: 996602803X
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

This book brings together essays which cover a number of key areas: Gender, Disability, Media, Sports, Literature, Religion, Land and Youth, Music. Through an examination of the situation in Kenya, the essays opens new ways of understanding forms of local


Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject

Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject

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  • Author: Fintan Walsh
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136154868
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 274

This book stages a timely discussion about the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. It acknowledges the important close relationship between the discourses and practices historically while maintaining that theatre and performance can enlighten ways of being with others that are not limited by conventional identitarian languages. The essays engage contemporary theatre and performance practices that pose challenging questions about identity, as well as subjectivity, relationality, and the politics of aesthetics, responding to neo-liberal constructions and exploitations of identity by seeking to discern, describe, or imagine a new political subject. Chapters by leading international scholars look to visual arts practice, digital culture, music, public events, experimental theatre, and performance to investigate questions about representation, metaphysics, and politics. The collections seeks to foreground shared, universalist connections that unite rather than divide, visiting metaphysical questions of being and becoming, and the possibilities of producing alternate realities and relationalities. The book asks what is at stake in thinking about a subject, a time, a place, and a performing arts practice that would come ‘after’ identity, and explores how theatre and performance pose and interrogate these questions.


Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law

Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law

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  • Author: G. Guterman
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137411007
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 236

How has contemporary American theatre presented so-called undocumented immigrants? Placing theatre artists and their work within a context of on-going debate, Guterman shows how theatre fills an essential role in a critical conversation by exploring the powerful ways in which legal labels affect and change us.