Performance and Modernity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108833066)

How do ideas take shape? How do concepts emerge into form? This book argues that they take shape quite literally in the human body, often appearing on stage in new styles of performance. Focusing on the historical period of modernity, Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage demonstrates how the unforeseen impact of economic, industrial, political, social, and psychological change was registered in bodily metaphors that took shape on stage. In new styles of performance-acting, dance, music, pageantry, avant-garde provocations, film, video and networked media-this book finds fresh evidence for how modernity has been understood and lived, both by stage actors, who, in modelling new habits, gave emerging experiences an epistemological shape, and by their audiences, who, in borrowing the strategies performers enacted, learned to adapt to a modernizing world.

Author: Julia A. Walker
ISBN-10: 1108833063
ISBN-13: 9781108833066
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2022
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.20w x 0.70d