Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199997169)

Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical theater, opera, theater, and other artistic practices, from Glee to Gardzienice, Beckett to Disney, Broadway to Turner-Prize-winning sound installation. The chapters draw together these diverse examples of vocality and physicality by exploring their affect rather than through considering them as texts. The book's contributors derive methodologies from many disciplines. Resisting discrete discipline-based enquiry, they share methodologies and performance repertoires with discipline-based scholarship from theater studies, musicology, and cultural studies, among other approaches. Together, they view these as neighboring voices whose dialogue enriches the study of contemporary music theater.

Author: Dominic Symonds, Millie Taylor
ISBN-10: 0199997160
ISBN-13: 9780199997169
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/24/2013
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2014 pg. 262