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Language: English
Published by Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2006
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Paperback. 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. Explores the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, Americas, Africa and Asia. This book aims to explore the way artistic and aesthetic practices in performance produce and structure experience. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- Aesthetics in Performance (Paperback)
- Author
- Angela Hobart
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Oxford
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1845453158
- ISBN 13
- 9781845453152
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About the Author
Angela Hobart is the coordinating lecturer at Goldsmiths College on Intercultural Therapy and lectures at the British Museum on the Art and Culture of South East Asia.
Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Adjunct Professor at James Cook University and Honorary Professor at University College London.
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