Decomposition

Post-Disciplinary Performance

By: Philip Brett (Editor), Susan Leigh Foster (Editor), Sue-Ellen Case (Editor)

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Paperback | 22 June 2000

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The fluid nature of performance studies and the widening embrace of the idea of performativity has produced in this volume a collection of great interest that crosses disciplinary lines of academic work. The essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics. In the title essay, Elizabeth Wood writes about a basic human relation cast around the question of performance and triangulated by the role a great performer took within it. In this unnatural act of somatic and sonic decomposition of the maternal body's soundscape, "she seeks to liberate herself and us from the last refuge of patriarchal order and compulsory heterosexuality, the subordinating myth of maternal omnipotence. The decomposition of such myths is a binding force in this volume. Together these essays pursue critical understanding of performance in our post-modern world, embodying perspectives that help us understand the historical and cultural issues that underpin it".

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment History of Art & Design Styles Art Treatments & Subjects Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Dance & Other Performing Arts Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Acting & Theatre Studies

History of Ideas Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Art Forms Non-Graphic Art Forms Performance Art

Conferencing About the Unnatural
Introducing Unnatural Acts, 1997	p. 3
Acting Unnatural: Interpreting Body Art	p. 10
Listening to Local Practices: Performance and Identity Politics in Riverside, California	p. 18
Contesting White Spaces
Black Noise / White Mastery	p. 39
Like a Weed in a Vacant Lot: The Black Artists Group in St. Louis	p. 50
Yayoi Kusama's Body of Art	p. 62
"Oh, You Can't Just Let a Man Walk over You": Staging Threepenny Opera in Singapore	p. 79
Acting Manly
The Britten Era	p. 95
A Question of Balls: The Sexual Politics of Argentine Soccer	p. 111
Music at Home, Politics Afar	p. 135
Talking Vulvas and Other Body Parts
Looking like a Lesbian: Yvonne Rainer's Theory of Probability	p. 171
Structure, Size, and Play: The Case of the Talking Vulva	p. 186
De-Composing the Unnatural
Decomposition	p. 201
Contributors	p. 215
Index	p. 217
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