Overview

Performance studies have been increasingly influential on recent developments in musicology, theater, art, and dance history, as these fields shift from primarily text-based disciplines to consider performativity, subjective experience, and particularized practice. At the same time, the editors argue, investigations into the pre- and early-modern periods have been rare in performance studies. Acting on the Past assembles some of the foremost scholars to theorize particular historical performances -- in dance, opera, theater, and music. Exploring relationships between archive and act, text and sounding, subject and practice, this collection expands and redefines our understanding of both past and performance. CONTRIBUTORS: Annette Richards, Karen Bassi, Joseph Roach, Shelby Rchardson, Catherine M. Soussloff, Mary Carruthers, John Butt, Carolyn Dean, Susan McClary, James Miller.

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This volume goes beyond recent discussions of historical performance . . . like many performance studies [it] challenges disciplinary boundaries. More important, it challenges performance studies itself to theorize the notion of the past, including performance studies' own history as an interdisciplinary field . . . the contributions are uniformly excellent. Choice

This volume goes beyond recent discussions of historical performance . . . like many performance studies [it] challenges disciplinary boundaries. More important, it challenges performance studies itself to theorize the notion of the past, including performance studies' own history as an interdisciplinary field . . . the contributions are uniformly excellent. Choice

This volume goes beyond recent discussions of historical performance . . . like many performance studies [it] challenges disciplinary boundaries. More important, it challenges performance studies itself to theorize the notion of the past, including performance studies' own history as an interdisciplinary field . . . the contributions are uniformly excellent. --Choice

Author Information

MARK FRANKO is Professor of Dance and Performance Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, and author of Dancing Modernism / Performing Politics (1995) and Dance as Text (1993). ANNETTE RICHARDS is Assistant Professor of Music at Cornell University.

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