Anthropology of the Performing Arts
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Anthropology of the Performing Arts

Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Perspective

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eBook - ePub

Anthropology of the Performing Arts

Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Perspective

About this book

Anya Peterson Royce turns the anthropological gaze on the performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture. She asks general questions as to the nature of artistic interpretation, the differences between virtuosity and artistry, and how artists interplay with audience, aesthetics, and style. To support her case, she examines artists as diverse as Fokine and the Ballets Russes, Tewa Indian dancers, 17th century commedia dell'arte, Japanese kabuki and butoh, Zapotec shamans, and the mime of Marcel Marceau, adding her own observations as a professional dancer in the classical ballet tradition. Royce also points to the recent move toward collaboration across artistic genres as evidence of the universality of aesthetics. Her analysis leads to a better understanding of artistic interpretation, artist-audience relationships, and the artistic imagination as cross-cultural phenomena. Over 29 black and white photographs and drawings illustrate the wide range of Royce's cross-cultural approach. Her well-crafted volume will be of great interest to anthropologists, arts researchers, and students of cultural studies and performing arts.

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Information

Publisher
AltaMira Press
Year
2004
eBook ISBN
9780759115651
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Dance

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  6. CHAPTER ONE - TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PERFORMING ARTS
  7. CHAPTER TWO - VIRTUOSITY: THE MASQUE OF NONCHALANCE
  8. CHAPTER THREE - TECHNIQUE AND STYLE, CONSERVATISM AND CHANGE: MICHEL FOKINE AND THE BALLETS RUSSES
  9. CHAPTER FOUR - ARTISTRY: THE EMBODIMENT OF TRANSPARENCY
  10. CHAPTER FIVE - CODIFIED AND METAPHORICAL VOCABULARIES: THE CREATIVE ARTISTRY OF VASLAV NIJINSKY AND OF MARCEL MARCEAU
  11. CHAPTER SIX - TEWA INDIAN RITUAL: NATIVE AESTHETICS
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN - ARTISTIC PERFORMANCES: JANOS STARKER CRAFTS THE INEVITABLE
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT - SILENCE AND STILLNESS IN MUSIC AND DANCE
  14. CHAPTER NINE - THE AUDIENCE AS CREATOR AND INTERPRETER
  15. CHAPTER TEN - PERFORMERS AND GENRES: THE FORM AND MEANING OF INNOVATION
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN - ARTISTRY AND ALTERED STATES
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE - AFTERTHOUGHTS
  18. REFERENCES
  19. INDEX
  20. ABOUT THE AUTHOR