Performance

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Theatre, History & Criticism
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Author: Diana Taylor ISBN: 9780822375128
Publisher: Duke University Press Publication: December 30, 2015
Imprint: Duke University Press Books Language: English
Author: Diana Taylor
ISBN: 9780822375128
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication: December 30, 2015
Imprint: Duke University Press Books
Language: English

"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.

 

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"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.

 

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