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Gestures of music theater the performativity of song and dance / edited by Dominic Symonds and Millie Taylor.
| Other author | Symonds, Dominic. |
| Other author | Taylor, Millie. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, [2014] |
| Description | xiii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Singing the dance, dancing the song. The song's the thing : capturing the "sung" to make it "song" / Dominic Symonds ; The (un)pleasure of song : on the enjoyment of listening to opera / Carlo Zuccarini -- Performativity as dramaturgy. Relocating the song : Julie Taymor's jukebox musical Across the universe (2007) / George Rodosthenous ; Dynamic shape : the dramaturgy of song and dance in Lloyd Webber's Cats (1981) / Ben Macpherson -- Performativity as transition. Dance breaks and dream ballets : transitional moments in musical theater / Mary Jo Lodge ; "Love let me sing you" : the liminality of song and dance in La Chiusa's Bernarda Alba (2006) / Matthew Lockitt -- Performativity as identity. Tapping the ivories : jazz and tap dance in Jelly's last jam (1992) / Kathryn Edney ; Everything's coming up Kurt : the Broadway song in Glee / Jessica Sternfeld ; Angry dance : postmodern innovation, masculinities and gender subversion / Judith A. Sebesta -- |
| Contents | Performativity as context. Deconstructing the singer : the concerts of Laurie Anderson / Ainhoa Kaiero Claver ; Singing and a song : the "intimate difference" in Susan Philipsz's Lowlands -- / Zeynep Bulut ; Acting operatically : body, voice and the actress in Beckett's theater / Marianne Sharp -- Performativity as practice. Vox elettronica : song, dance and live electronics in the practice of sound theater / Caroline Wilkins ; From ear to foot : how choreographers interpret music / Sabine Wilden ; Singing from stones : physiovocality and Gardzienice's Theater of musicality / Konstatinos Thomaidis -- Performativity as community. Singing the community : the musical theater chorus as character / Bethany Hughes ; Singing and dancing ourselves : the politics of the ensemble in A chorus line (1975) / Millie Taylor -- Performativity as writing. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013016327 |
| ISBN | 9780199997152 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780199997169 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |