Philosophy of the performing arts /

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Author / Creator:Davies, David, 1949- author
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
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ISBN:1444343459 (electronic bk.)
9781444343458 (electronic bk.)
Notes:Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:Original 9781405188029 1405188022 9781405188036 1405188030
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