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9780521147439: Performance and Authenticity in the Arts

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These essays investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts.

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This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. Subjects discussed include the experiences of religious and aesthetic authenticity, the performance of music, and the dark side of performance - its constant susceptibility to inauthenticity.

Contenuti

List of contributors; Editor's acknowledgements; 1. Performance and authenticity Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell; Part I. Performance, Religion, and Authenticity: 2. The Poetics of performance: the necessity of spectacle, music, and dance in Aristotelian tragedy Gregory Scott; 3. The 'confessing animal' on stage: authenticity, asceticism, and the constant 'inconstancie' of Elizabethan character Peter Iver Kaufman; 4. Art, religion, and the hermeneutics of authenticity Nicholas Davey; Part II. Understanding, Performance, and Authenticity: 5. Understanding music Michael Tanner; 6. Understanding music Malcolm Budd; 7. Musical performance as analytic communication Fred Everett Maus; 8. Performance authenticity: possible, practical, virtuous Stan Godlovitch; 9. Why is it impossible in language to articulate the meaning of a work of music? Joseph J. Kockelmans; Part III. Authenticity, Poetry, and Performance: 10. Inauthenticity, insincerity, and poetry Alex Neill; 11. Poetry's oral stage Peter Middleton; 12. True stories: Spalding Gray and the authenticities of performance Henry M. Sayre; Index.

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9780521454193: Performance and Authenticity in the Arts

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ISBN 10:  0521454190 ISBN 13:  9780521454193
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1999
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