Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

by A. Hobart (Editor), A. Hobart

In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Each essay enters into a discussion of the “logic” of aesthetic processes exploring their social and political and symbolic import. The aim is above all to explore the way artistic and aesthetic practices in performance produce and structure experience.

252 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2006

Reviews

[Regina Andreassen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Edited by Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer, who is an associate professor of my university (although he is working in Europe now). I found it very helpful and interesting .A fine attempt, although some of the readings are a bit dense and not very relevant to the subject.