Description
Book SynopsisPerformance is a forum for social action, embodied interaction and shared authority. Recently, as the various acts and agencies surrounding a performance have become the target of scholarly interest, the complex split between theory and practice has been challenged, as has the idea of a singular, disembodied authorial ownership of the socio-material meanings surrounding performance.
The Embodiment of Authority approaches performance, issues of authority and negotiated knowledge production through multi-material research data and interdisciplinary methods. The book discusses the relationship between authorial questions and performances via the following topics: shared authorities, ontologies of art work, diverse roles of rehearsals in the performance process, and embodied knowledge.
Table of ContentsContents: Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli: On Musical Performance as a Creative Process: A Semiotic Perspective – Yrjö Heinonen: Breaking up the Fourth Wall: Playing with, Questioning and Crossing the Implicit Barrier between Performer and Audience in Arja Koriseva’s Stage Performance – Johanna Tiensuu: Different Pianists with Different Bodies: Does the Body Matter? Constructing Discursive-Material Interconnections in a Study on Piano Pedagogy – Ana Dinger: Curatorship as Conservation: The Role of the Curator in the Perpetuation of Performance-Based Artworks – Anthony Pryer: The Ontology of Music and the Challenge of Performance: Identity versus Variety, and the Persistence of the «Text» – Marjaana Virtanen: From Sketches to First Performance: Composer-Performer Interaction in the Creation Process of Jyrki Linjama’s
Completorium – Thomas Gardner: Sound Art, Music and the Rehabilitation of Schizophonia – Heidi Korhonen-Björkman/Ritva Koistinen: The Impact of the Musical Instrument on Debussy’s
La fille aux cheveux de lin: A Dialogue between a Pianist and a Kantele Musician – Catherine Lee:
Reeds: Play within Shared Authority – Marjo Suominen: Signs and Messages of Love in Performing Handel’s
Giulio Cesare – Guerino Mazzola: Flow and Gesture in Free Jazz.
