Aesthetics And Performance
by Hobart, Angela; Kapferer, BruceFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-06-01
Publisher(s): Berghahn Books
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Summary
In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Each essay enters into a discussion of the "logic" of aesthetic processes exploring their social and political and symbolic import. The aim is above all to explore the way artistic and aesthetic practices in performance produce and structure experience.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : the aesthetics of symbolic construction and experience | p. 1 |
| Making grown men weep | p. 23 |
| The buzz of God and the click of delight | p. 43 |
| Songs of love, images of memory | p. 64 |
| The Hindu temple and the aesthetics of the imaginary | p. 89 |
| Where divine horsemen ride : trance dancing in West Africa | p. 109 |
| Sorcery and the beautiful : a discourse on the aesthetics of ritual | p. 129 |
| Transformation and aesthetics in Balinese masked performances - Rangda and Barong | p. 161 |
| A concise reflection on the Brazilian carnival | p. 183 |
| Bureaucratic logic, bureaucratic aesthetics : the opening event of Holocaust martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel | p. 196 |
| Compassion for animals, indifference to humans : non- and misperceptions among circus audiences in 1970s Britain | p. 216 |
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