Dominic Symonds, Millie Taylor

Gestures of Music Theater (eBook, PDF)

The Performativity of Song and Dance

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Produktbeschreibung

Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical theater, opera, theater, and other artistic practices, from Glee to Gardzienice, Beckett to Disney, Broadway to Turner-Prize-winning sound installation. The chapters draw together these diverse examples of vocality and physicality by exploring their affect rather than through considering them as texts. The book's contributors derive methodologies from many disciplines. Resisting discrete discipline-based enquiry, they share methodologies and performance repertoires with discipline-based scholarship from theater studies, musicology, and cultural studies, among other approaches. Together, they view these as neighboring voices whose dialogue enriches the study of contemporary music theater.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199997176
• Artikelnr.: 40041965

Autorenporträt

Dominic Symonds is Reader in Drama at the University of Lincoln and, with George Burrows, joint editor of the journal Studies in Musical Theatre. Millie Taylor is Professor of Musical Theatre at The University of Winchester and author of Musical Theatre, Realism, and Entertainment (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Singing the Dance, Dancing the Song
* Chapter 1: The Song's the Thing: Capturing the "Sung" to Make it
"Song"
* Chapter 2: The (Un)Pleasure of Song: On the Enjoyment of Listening to
Opera
* Performativity as Dramaturgy
* Chapter 3: Relocating the Song: Julie Taymor's Jukebox Musical Across
the Universe (2007)
* Chapter 4: Dynamic shape: the Dramaturgy of Song and Dance in Lloyd
Webber's Cats (1981)
* Performativity as Transition
* Chapter 5: Dance Breaks and Dream Ballets: Transitional Moments in
Musical Theater
* Chapter 6: "Love Let Me Sing you": The Liminality of Song and Dance
in La Chiusa's Bernarda Alba (2006)
* Performativity as Identity
* Chapter 7: Tapping the Ivories: Jazz and Tap Dance in Jelly's Last
Jam (1992).
* Chapter 8: Everything's Coming up Kurt: the Broadway Song in Glee
* Chapter 9: Angry Dance: Postmodern Innovation, Masculinities and
Gender Subversion
* Performativity as Context
* Chapter 10: Deconstructing the Singer: the Concerts of Laurie
Anderson
* Chapter 11: Singing and a Song: The "Intimate Difference" in Susan
Philipsz's Lowlands (2010)
* Chapter 12: Acting Operatically: Body, Voice and the Actress in
Beckett's Theater
* Performativity as Practice
* Chapter 13: Vox Elettronica: Song, Dance and Live Electronics in the
Practice of Sound Theater
* Chapter 14: From Ear to Foot: How Choreographers Interpret Music
* Chapter 15: Singing from Stones: Physiovocality and Gardzienice's
Theater of Musicality
* Performativity as Community
* Chapter 16: Singing the Community: the Musical Theater Chorus as
Character
* Chapter 17: Singing and Dancing Ourselves: The Politics of the
Ensemble in A Chorus Line (1975)
* Performativity as Writing
* Bibliography
* Index
* Bibliography