Aesthetics in Performance

Aesthetics in Performance
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 1571815678
ISBN-13 : 9781571815675
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Book Synopsis Aesthetics in Performance by : Angela Hobart

Download or read book Aesthetics in Performance written by Angela Hobart and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Each essay enters into a discussion of the "logic" of aesthetic processes exploring their social and political and symbolic import. The aim is above all to explore the way artistic and aesthetic practices in performance produce and structure experience.


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