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Aesthetics in Performance : Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience / ed. by Angela Hobart, Bruce Kapferer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845453152
  • 9781782382041
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111/.85 22
LOC classification:
  • BH301.E8 .A378 2007
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and Experience -- Chapter One MAKING GROWN MEN WEEP -- Chapter Two THE BUZZ OF GOD AND THE CLICK OF DELIGHT -- Chapter Three SONGS OF LOVE, IMAGES OF MEMORY -- Chapter Four THE HINDU TEMPLE AND THE AESTHETICS OF THE IMAGINARY -- Chapter Five WHERE DIVINE HORSEMEN RIDE Trance Dancing in West Africa -- Chapter Six SORCERY AND THE BEAUTIFUL ADiscourse on the Aesthetics of Ritual -- Chapter Seven TRANSFORMATION AND AESTHETICS IN BALINESE MASKED PERFORMANCES— RANGDA AND BARONG -- Chapter Eight ACONCISE REFLECTION ON THE BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL -- Chapter Nine BUREAUCRATIC LOGIC, BUREAUCRATIC AESTHETICS The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel -- Chapter Ten COMPASSION FOR ANIMALS, INDIFFERENCE TO HUMANS Non- and Misperceptions among Circus Audiences in 1970s Britain -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and Experience -- Chapter One MAKING GROWN MEN WEEP -- Chapter Two THE BUZZ OF GOD AND THE CLICK OF DELIGHT -- Chapter Three SONGS OF LOVE, IMAGES OF MEMORY -- Chapter Four THE HINDU TEMPLE AND THE AESTHETICS OF THE IMAGINARY -- Chapter Five WHERE DIVINE HORSEMEN RIDE Trance Dancing in West Africa -- Chapter Six SORCERY AND THE BEAUTIFUL ADiscourse on the Aesthetics of Ritual -- Chapter Seven TRANSFORMATION AND AESTHETICS IN BALINESE MASKED PERFORMANCES— RANGDA AND BARONG -- Chapter Eight ACONCISE REFLECTION ON THE BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL -- Chapter Nine BUREAUCRATIC LOGIC, BUREAUCRATIC AESTHETICS The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel -- Chapter Ten COMPASSION FOR ANIMALS, INDIFFERENCE TO HUMANS Non- and Misperceptions among Circus Audiences in 1970s Britain -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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