Research Methods in Performance Studies

Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, Jake Simmons, Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, Jake Simmons

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781351044776
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Research & Methodology in Psychology

Research Methods in Performance Studies offers a unique approach for readers to engage with performance research and methods in practice. It examines ways of making performance, researching performance cultures, researching performers who themselves are engaged in research, and conducting research in the context of enduring and emergent themes of performance studies inquiry.

This book features the work of eighteen scholar-artists currently working in performance studies who demonstrate—through applied projects—various methods for conducting performance research. The result is a wide array of novel scholarship including activist performance, slam poetry, video performance, stand-up comedy, adaptation for the Broadway stage, naturecultural performance, intersectional performance, performances of cultural and material preservation, and many others.

Faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and performance practitioners alike will benefit from the approaches to performance studies research methods articulated by the scholar-artists featured in this collection.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Performance, Performativity, Research, Method
• Section I Means of Making
• Section II Researching Performance Cultures
• Section III Researching Performers/Performers Researching
• Section IV Emerging and Enduring Contexts
• Conclusion: Observations on Performance Studies Research and Methods
• Index