Performing Rites

Author : Simon Frith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674247314

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Performing Rites by Simon Frith Pdf

Who's better? Billie Holiday or P. J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distill our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject--and discloses their place at the very center of the aesthetics that structure our culture and color our lives. Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the undeniable impact of popular aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our heads or tap our feet, grin or grimace or flip the dial; how we determine what's sublime and what's "for real"--these are part of the way we construct our social identities, and an essential response to the performance of all music. Frith argues that listening itself is a performance, both social gesture and bodily response. From how they are made to how they are received, popular songs appear here as not only meriting aesthetic judgments but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means.

Author : Simon Frith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674661966

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Performing Rites by Simon Frith Pdf

Who's better? Billie Holiday or P. J. Harvey? Blur or Oasis? Dylan or Keats? And how many friendships have ridden on the answer? Such questions aren't merely the stuff of fanzines and idle talk; they inform our most passionate arguments, distill our most deeply held values, make meaning of our ever-changing culture. In Performing Rites, one of the most influential writers on popular music asks what we talk about when we talk about music. What's good, what's bad? What's high, what's low? Why do such distinctions matter? Instead of dismissing emotional response and personal taste as inaccessible to the academic critic, Simon Frith takes these forms of engagement as his subject--and discloses their place at the very center of the aesthetics that structure our culture and color our lives. Taking up hundreds of songs and writers, Frith insists on acts of evaluation of popular music as music. Ranging through and beyond the twentieth century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the undeniable impact of popular aesthetics on our lives. How we nod our heads or tap our feet, grin or grimace or flip the dial; how we determine what's sublime and what's "for real"--these are part of the way we construct our social identities, and an essential response to the performance of all music. Frith argues that listening itself is a performance, both social gesture and bodily response. From how they are made to how they are received, popular songs appear here as not only meriting aesthetic judgments but also demanding them, and shaping our understanding of what all music means.

Author : Simon Frith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Music and society
ISBN : 1383007713

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Performing Rites by Simon Frith Pdf

Ranging through and beyond the 20th century, Performing Rites puts the Pet Shop Boys and Puccini, rhythm and lyric, voice and technology, into a dialogue about the impact of popular aesthetics on our lives.

Author : Azam Torab
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004152953

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Performing Islam by Azam Torab Pdf

"Performing Islam" focuses on a wide spectrum of ritual activities in Iran today as a key for elucidating social, cultural and political processes, but in particular the values and beliefs underpinning gender constructions in a rapidly changing complex society.

Author : Liam Jarvis,Sue Buckmaster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429786181

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Theatre-Rites by Liam Jarvis,Sue Buckmaster Pdf

Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance, creating ground-breaking work for family audiences since 1995. This book marks the company’s 25th anniversary, offering the first in-depth exploration of artistic director Sue Buckmaster’s visionary practice, in which anything can be animated. This book draws on original research, including five years of in-depth interviews between its authors, images from Theatre-Rites’ archive and Buckmaster’s private collection, detailed observations from the company’s professional training workshops and personal reflections on past productions. A timely and compelling advocacy for the importance of high-quality experimental arts provision for young audiences is made, distilling learning from decades of the company’s professional activities to motivate and empower the next generation of object-led theatre-makers. Theatre-Rites: Animating Puppets, Objects and Sites is an invaluable resource for any puppeteer, actor, dancer, visual artist, poet or student interested in expanding their understanding of how to incorporate puppetry and/or symbolic objects as metaphors in their work.

Author : Barry Smith (Poet)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1906742952

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Performance Rites by Barry Smith (Poet) Pdf

Author : Barry Stephenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199943593

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Ritual: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Stephenson Pdf

Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place in modern life that is decidedly ambiguous. What is ritual? What does it do? Is it useful? What are the various kinds of ritual? Is ritual tradition bound and conservative or innovative and transformational? Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this Very Short Introduction explores ritual from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places where ritual touches everyday life: in politics and power; moments of transformation in the life cycle; as performance and embodiment. He also discusses the boundaries of ritual, and how and why certain behaviors have been studied as ritual while others have not. Stephenson shows how ritual is an important vehicle for group and identity formation; how it generates and transmits beliefs and values; how it can be used to exploit and oppress; and how it has served as a touchstone for thinking about cultural origins and historical change. Encompassing the breadth and depth of modern ritual studies, Barry Stephenson's Very Short Introduction also develops a narrative of ritual's place in social and cultural life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Graham St. John
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1845454626

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Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance by Graham St. John Pdf

In the twenty years following Victor Turner's death, interventions on the interconnected performance modes of play, drama, and community (dimensions of which Turner deemed the limen), and experimental and analytical forays into the anthropologies of experience and consciousness, have complemented and extended Turnerian readings on the moments and sites of culture's becoming. Examining Turner's continued relevance in performance and popular culture, pilgrimage and communitas, as well as Edith Turner's role, the contributors reflect on the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early twenty-first century and explore how Turner's ideas have been re-engaged, renovated, and repurposed in studies of contemporary cultural performance.

Author : Richard Schechner,Mady Schuman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021413823

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Ritual, Play, and Performance by Richard Schechner,Mady Schuman Pdf

Author : Victor Witter Turner
Publisher : New York City : Performing Arts Journal Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:49015001107995

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From Ritual to Theatre by Victor Witter Turner Pdf

Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience . . . We must admire him for this.-Times Literary Supplement

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520236752

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Deeply Into the Bone by Ronald L. Grimes Pdf

Providing a personal, informed and cultural perspective on rites of passage for general readers, this text illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions.

Author : Isaac Bonewits
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Neopaganism
ISBN : 9780738711997

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Neopagan Rites by Isaac Bonewits Pdf

A practical guidebook for creating and conducting public rituals that that unify, inspire and fulfil their intended purposes.

Author : Jennifer Laing,Warwick Frost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134593200

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Rituals and Traditional Events in the Modern World by Jennifer Laing,Warwick Frost Pdf

Many events have evolved over centuries, drawing on local customs and conditions. However, as the world becomes increasingly globalised, traditional events and the identities they support are increasingly being challenged and rituals may be lost. Reacting against this trend towards homogeneity, communities strive to preserve and even recreate their traditional events, which may require rituals to be resurrected or reinvented for a new audience. The aim of this book is to explore the role of traditional events and rituals in the modern world. The 16 chapters cover a range of case studies of the performance of ritual through events, including their historical antecedents and development over time, as well as their role in society, link with identities both seemingly fixed and fluid and their continued relevance. The cases examined are not museum pieces, but rather vibrant festivals and events that continue to persist. Drawing on the power of history and cultural tradition, they are manifestations of heritage, existing in three temporalities: celebrating the past, occurring in the present and aiming to continue into and influence the future. Iconic events including Chinese New Year, Hogmanay and the New Orleans Mardi Gras are examined and examples are drawn from a diverse range of countries such as South Korea, China, Laos, the United States, Scotland, Italy, India and Haiti. This volume provides a deep understanding upon the role of tradition and ritual within events, from a global perspective and will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics interested in events, heritage and culture.

Author : Peter J Chelkowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1803094451

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Eternal Performance by Peter J Chelkowski Pdf

Exploring the social, political, cultural, artistic, and religious significance of Muharram rituals for millions of global observers. Over the centuries, observances of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, have traveled far from their origins at Karbala--a windswept desert plain that is now a town in present-day Iraq--where, according to tradition, Hussein, the beloved grandson of Prophet Muhammad, was brutally put to death together with seventy-two of his male companions on the tenth day of the month. For this reason, Muharram is synonymous with both the first month and the tenth day. Hussein's passion and death are considered the ultimate example of sacrifice for Shia Muslims and scores of rituals devoted to Muharram have developed during the last thirteen centuries, especially in Iran where Twelver Shi'ism became the state religion in the sixteenth century. As the essays describe in Eternal Performance, many of these rituals were exported to other lands over time. They crossed boundaries and cultures from Iran and Iraq to Lebanon, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and the Caribbean. Yet all Muharram rituals, no matter where or how they are performed, have their origins in Karbala. The transformation and transmission of these observances to their present-day forms around the world are the result of the intersection of multiple races, religions, and artistic traditions. Eternal Performance explores the social, political, cultural, artistic, and religious significance of Muharram rituals for millions of global observers.

Author : Andrew Walker White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107073852

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Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium by Andrew Walker White Pdf

The first full-length, interdisciplinary study of the Greek performing arts - theatre, rhetoric and ritual - between antiquity and the Renaissance.