Performed Ethnography and Communication: Improvisation and Embodied Experience - Softcover

Madison, D Soyini

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113878902X ISBN 13: 9781138789029

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Performed Ethnography and Communication explores the relationships between these three key terms, addressing the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and staged collaboration, this volume is divided into two main sections:

• "Embodied technique and practice," which addresses improvisation, devised theatre-making, and body work to consider what makes bodies move, sound, behave, mean, or appear differently, and the effects of these differences on performance;
• "Oral history and personal narrative performance," which is concerned with the ways personal stories and histories might be transformed into public events, looking at questions of perspective, ownership, and reception.

Including specific historical and theoretical case studies, exercises and activities, and practical applications for improvisation, ethnography, and devised and digital performance, Performed Ethnography and Communication represents an invaluable resource for today’s student of performance studies, communication studies or cultural studies.

About this title

About the Author

D. Soyini Madison is Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113878902X
• ISBN 13: 9781138789029
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 234