Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

Angela Hobart; Bruce Kapferer

ISBN 10: 1845453158 / ISBN 13: 9781845453152

Published by Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2006

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252pp paperback, very good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845453158
• ISBN 13: 9781845453152
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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. 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.

About the Authors

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.