Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960
Making Tracks
- 276 pages
- English
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About This Book
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.
It investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circusâremoving traditional boundaries that separate studies of performance, and celebrating difference and transformation in style, intention, and delivery. Well known, or obscure, 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. Touring Performance and Global Exchange takes a fresh look at such tracksâthe material remainsâdemonstrating that moving performance does far more than transfer repertoires and people; it transforms them. Touring performance has too often beenconceived in diasporic terms, as a fixed product radiating out from a cultural centre. This collection maps different patternsâones 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Vanishing Acts and Making Tracks
- 1 Kungkarangkalpa: Travelling Women of the Seven Sisters Songline
- Part I: Ephemerality and Creative Methodology
- Part II: Peril, Illness, and Ageing
- Part III: Reversed Flows and Cross Currents
- Index