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Performance, embodiment, and cultural memory

Title: Performance, embodiment, and cultural memory / edited by Colin Counsell and Roberta Mock.
Publication: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.

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vi, 227 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

The subject of cultural memory, and of the body's role in its creation and dissemination, is central to current academic debate, particularly in relation to performance. The ten essays brought together in this book address this subject from a unique diversity of perspectives, focusing on a variety of topics.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Performing intercultural memory in the diasporic present : the case of Toronto -- Embodiment of memory and the diasporic agent in Akram Khan Company's Bahok -- Tohu-bohu : Rachel Rosenthal's performances of diasporic cultural memory -- Belated spaces : embodying embodiment in Holocaust Tourism -- Barcelona : earth, puppets and embodiment -- Dead bodies/live bodies : myths, memory and resurrection in contemporary Mexican performance -- Consuming culture : the Japanese way of tea in performance -- No sweat : performance and the care of the Singapore self -- Pianola Karaoke and other attractions -- Noise, memory, gesture : the theatre in a minute's silence.

ISBN

9781443811200
1443811203
1443814717
9781443814713

LCCN

2009288661
60001159351

OCLC

ocn390400974
390400974
SCSB-1545690

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Princeton University Library