Professing Performance

Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity

Shannon Jackson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:8th Apr '04

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This 2004 book shows the relationship between past institutional histories and tradition and current scholarly and artistic practices in performance.

Professing Performance, first published in 2004, 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. Shannon Jackson analyses long-standing debates between the world of the scholar and the world of the artist.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

  • Winner of the Lilla A.Heston Award 5/7/2005
  • Winner of the Lilla A.Heston Award 5/7/05

ISBN: 9780521651899

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm

Weight: 490g

268 pages