Philosophy of the performing arts /
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Author / Creator: | Davies, David, 1949- author |
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Imprint: | Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Foundations of the philosophy of the arts |
Subject: | Performing arts -- Philosophy. Performing arts -- Philosophy. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8434554 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Part 1. Performance and the Classical Paradigm
- 1. The Nature of Artistic Performance
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is a Performance?
- 3. Institutional Theories of Artistic Performance
- 4. Aesthetic Theories of Artistic Performance
- 5. Artistic Performance and Artistic Regard
- 6. Overview
- 2. The Classical Paradigm I: The Nature of the Performable Work
- 1. Introduction: Berthold and Magda Go to the Symphony
- 2. The Multiple Nature of Performable Works
- 3. Performable Works as Types
- 4. Varieties of Type Theories: Sonicism, Instrumentalism, and Contextualism
- 5. Other Theories of the Performable Work
- 3. The Classical Paradigm II: Appreciating Performable Works in Performance
- 1. Introduction: Talking Appreciatively about Performable Works
- 2. Can Performable Works Share Artistic Properties with Their Performances?
- 3. The Goodman Argument
- 4. Answering the Goodman Argument
- 4. Authenticity in Musical Performance
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Authenticity in the Arts
- 3. Three Notions of Historically Authentic Performance
- 5. Challenges to the Classical Paradigm in Music
- 1. Introduction: The Classical Paradigm in the Performing Arts
- 2. The Scope of the Paradigm in Classical Music
- 3. Jazz, Rock, and the Classical Paradigm
- 4. Non-Western Music and the Classical Paradigm
- 6. The Scope of the Classical Paradigm: Theater, Dance, and Literature
- 1. Introduction: Berthold and Magda Go to the Theater
- 2. Theatrical Performances and Performable Works
- 3. Challenges to the Classical Paradigm in Theater
- 4. Dance and the Classical Paradigm
- 5. The Novel as Performable Work?
- Part 2. Performance as Art
- 7. Performances as Artworks
- 1. Introduction: Spontaneous Performance in the Arts
- 2. The Artistic Status of Performances Outside the Classical Paradigm
- 3. The Artistic Status of Performances Within the Classical Paradigm
- 8. Elements of Performance I: Improvisation and Rehearsal
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Nature of Improvisation
- 3. Improvisation and Performable Works: Three Models
- 4. Improvisation and Recording
- 5. The Place of Rehearsal in the Performing Arts
- 9. Elements of Performance II: Audience and Embodiment
- 1. Can There Be Artistic Performance Without an Audience?
- 2. Audience Response
- 3. The Embodied Performer and the Mirroring Receiver
- 10. Performance Art and the Performing Arts
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Some Puzzling Cases
- 3. What is Performance Art?
- 4. When Do Works of Performance Art Involve Artistic Performances?
- 5. Performance as Art: A Final Case
- References
- Index