Gestures of Music Theater : The Performativity of Song and Dance.
Dominic. Symonds
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (337 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- GESTURES OF MUSIC THEATER -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- PART ONE: Singing the Dance, Dancing the Song -- 1. The Song's the Thing: Capturing the "Sung"to Make It "Song" -- 2. The (Un)Pleasure of Song: On the Enjoyment of Listening to Opera -- PART TWO: Performativity as Dramaturgy -- 3. Relocating the Song: Julie Taymor's Jukebox Musical, A cross the Universe (2007) -- 4. Dynamic Shape: The Dramaturgy of Song and Dance in Lloyd Webber's Cats -- PART THREE: Performativity as Transition -- 5. Dance Breaks and Dream Ballets: Transitional Moments in Musical Theater -- 6. "Love, Let Me Sing You": The Liminality of Song and Dance in LaChiusa's Bernarda Alba (2006) -- PART FOUR: Performativity as Identity -- 7. Tapping the Ivories: Jazz and Tap Dance in Jelly's Last Jam (1992). -- 8. "Everything's Coming up Kurt": The Broadway Song in Glee -- 9. Angry Dance: Postmodern Innovation, Masculinities, and Gender Subversion -- PART FIVE: Performativity as Context -- 10. Deconstructing the Singer: The Concerts of Laurie Anderson -- 11. Singing and a Song: The "Intimate Diff erence" in Susan Philipsz's Lowlands (2010) -- 12. Acting Operatically: Body, Voice, and the Actress in Beckett's Theater -- PART SIX: Performativity as Practice -- 13. Vox Elettronica: Song, Dance, and Live Electronics in the Practice of Sound Theater -- 14. From Ear to Foot: How Choreographers Interpret Music -- 15. Singing from Stones: Physiovocality and Gardzienice's Theater of Musicality Konstantinos Thomaidis -- PART SEVEN: Performativity as Community -- 16. Singing the Community: The Musical Theater Chorus as Character -- 17. Singing and Dancing Ourselves: The Politics of the Ensemble in A Chorus Line (1975) -- EPILOGUE: Performativity as Writing -- Bibliography -- Index.. - Gestures of Music Theater explores examples of Song and Dance as performative gestures that entertain and affect audiences. The chapters interact to reveal the complex energies of performativity. In experiencing these energies, music theater is revealed as a dynamic accretion of active, complex and dialogical experiences.
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