The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
By Diana Taylor.
Description
In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory—conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances—offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of hist...
ISBN(s)
0822331233, 0822331365, 9780822331230
