Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960 : Making Tracks.
This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. This book investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circus--removing t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
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| Summary: | This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. This book investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circus--removing traditional boundaries that separate studies of performance, and celebrating difference and transformation in style, intention, and delivery. Well known, or not known at all, travelling performers faced dangers at sea and hazardous journeys across land. Their tracks, made in pursuit of fortune and fame, intersected with those made by earlier storytellers in search for food. Making Tracks takes a fresh look at such tracks--the material remains--demonstrating that moving performance does far more than transfer repertoires and people; it transforms them. Touring performance has too often been conceived in diasporic terms, as a fixed product radiating out from a cultural centre. This collection maps different patterns--ones that comprise reversed flows, cross currents, and continually proliferating centres of meaning in complex networks of global exchange. This collection will be of great interest to scholars and students in theatre, music, drama studies and cultural history. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781003055860 1003055869 9781000509366 1000509362 9781000509359 1000509354 |
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| Biographical or Historical Data: | Gilli Bush-Bailey is Professor Emerita of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. Kate Flaherty is a Senior Lecturer in English and Drama in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, ANU whose research focuses on how Shakespeare's works play on the stage of public culture. |