Performance and authenticity in the arts / edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell.
Contributor(s): Kemal, Salim
| Gaskell, Ivan.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Cambridge studies in philosophy and the arts.Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: x, 274 p. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0521454190.Subject(s): Performance art. -- Philosophy | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)DDC classification: 700.1
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 700.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00101142 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars from music, drama, poetry, performance art, religion, classics and philosophy to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. The volume begins with a perspective on traditional understandings of that relation, examining the crucial role of performance in the Poetics, the marriage of art with religion, the experiences of religious and aesthetic authenticity, and modernist conceptions of authenticity. Several essays then consider music as a performative art. The final essays discuss the link of authenticity to sincerity and truth in poetry, explain how performance, as an authentic feature of poetry, embodies a collective effort, and culminate in a discussion of the dark side of performance - its constant susceptibility to inauthenticity. Together the essays suggest how issues of performance and authenticity enter into consideration of a wide range of the arts.
Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Performance and authenticity
- Part I Performance, Religion, and Authenticity
- 2 The poetics of performance: the necessity of performance, spectacle, music, and dance in Aristotelian tragedy
- 3 The 'confessing animal' on stage: authenticity, asceticism, and the constant 'inconstancie' of Elizabethan character
- 4 Art, religion, and the hermeneutics of authenticity
- Part II Understanding Performance and Authenticity
- 5 Understanding music
- 6 Understanding music
- 7 Musical performance as analytic communication
- 8 Performing authenticity: possible, practical, virtuous
- 9 Why is it impossible in language to articulate the meaning of a work of music?
- Part III Authenticity, Poetry, and Performance
- 10 Inauthenticity, insincerity, and poetry
- 11 Poetry's oral stage
- 12 True stories: Spalding Gray and the authenticities of performance