Aesthetics in Performance
eBook - PDF

Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. Making Grown Men Weep
  8. Chapter 2. The Buzz of God and the Click of Delight
  9. Chapter 3. Songs of Love, Images of Memory
  10. Chapter 4. The Hindu Temple and the Aesthetics of the Imaginary
  11. Chapter 5. Where Divine Horsemen Ride
  12. Chapter 6. Sorcery and the Beautiful
  13. Chapter 7. Transformation and Aesthetics in Balinese Masked Performances
  14. Chapter 8. A Concise Reflection on the Brazilian Carnival
  15. Chapter 9. Bureaucratic Logic, Bureaucratic Aesthetics
  16. Chapter 10. Compassion for Animals, Indifference to Humans
  17. Contributors
  18. Index