Professing Performance by Shannon Jackson

Professing Performance by Shannon Jackson

Today's academic discourse is filled with the word 'perform'. Nestled amongst a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of contemporary inquiries. For students, artists, and scholars of performance and theatre, this development is intriguing and complex. By examining the history of theatre studies and related institutions and by comparing the very different disciplinary interpretations and developments that led to this engagement, Professing Performance offers ways of placing performance theory and performance studies in context. This 2004 book considers the connection amongst a range of performance forms such as oratory, theatre, dance, and performance art and explores performance as both a humanistic and technical field of education. Throughout, she explores the institutional history of performance in the US academy in order to revise current debates around the role of the arts and humanities in higher education.

"Highly recommended for its detailed treatment of the obstacles and promise of performance studies" Theatre Journal
"Although a relatively slim volume, Professing Performance is an unusually ambitious, far-ranging and richly textured study." The Drama Review David Savran

Jackson, Shannon: - Shannon Jackson is the Associate Vice Chancellor of Arts + Design and Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Chair in the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.

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ISBN 13	9780521656054
ISBN 10	0521656052
Title	Professing Performance
Author	Shannon Jackson
Series	Theatre And Performance Theory
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2004-04-08
Number of pages	268
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