The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader has been the key introductory text to all types of performance for over fifteen years. Extracts from over fifty practitioners; critics and theorists from the fields of dance; drama; music; theatre and live art form an essential sourcebook for students; researchers and practitioners.This carefully revised third edition offers focus on contributions from the world of music; and also privileges the voices of practitioners themselves ahead of more theoretical writing. A bestseller since its original publication in 1996; this new edition has been expanded to include contributions from:Bobby Baker; Joseph Beuys; Rustom Bharucha; Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker; Hanns Eisler; Karen Finley; Philip Glass; Guillermo Goacute;mez-Pentilde;a; Matthew Goulish; Martha Graham; Wassily Kandinsky; Jacques Lecoq; Hans-Thies Lehmann; George Maciunas; Ariane Mnouchkine; Meredith Monk; Lloyd Newson; Carolee Schneemann; Gertrude Stein; Bill Viola.Each extract is fully supplemented by a contextual summary; a biography of the writer; and suggestions for further reading. The volumersquo;s alphabetical structure invites the reader to compare and cross-reference major writings on all types of performance outside of the constraints and simplifications of genre; encouraging cross-disciplinary understandings.All who engage with live; innovative performance; and the interplay of radical ideas; will find this collection invaluable.
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