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Archive and the Repertoire Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas

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ISBN-10: 0822331233

ISBN-13: 9780822331230

Edition: 2003

Authors: Diana Taylor

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In The Archive and the Repertoire pre-eminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. She shows how the repertoire of embodied memory-conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances-offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact. The Archive and the Repertoire invites a re-mapping of the Americas based…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 9/12/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 8.93" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Who, When, What, Why
Acts of Transfer
Scenarios of Discovery: Reflections on Performance and Ethnography
Memory as Cultural Practice: Mestizaje, Hybridity, Transculturation
La Raza Cosmetica: Walter Mercado Performs Latino Psychic Space
False Identifications: Minority Populations Mourn Diana
"You Are Here": H.I.J.O.S. and the DNA of Performance
Staging Traumatic Memory: Yuyachkani
Denise Stoklos: The Politics of Decipherability
Lost in the Field of Vision: Witnessing September 11
Hemispheric Performances
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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