Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance

Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance offers new, cutting-edge essays focusing on song and dance as performative gestures that not only entertain but also act on audiences and performers. The chapters range across musical theater, opera, theater, and other artistic
practices, from Glee to Gardzienice, Beckett to Disney, Broadway to Turner-Prize-winning sound installation. The chapters draw together these diverse examples of vocality and physicality by exploring their affect rather than through considering them as texts. The book's contributors derive
methodologies from many disciplines. Resisting discrete discipline-based enquiry, they share methodologies and performance repertoires with discipline-based scholarship from theater studies, musicology, and cultural studies, among other approaches. Together, they view these as neighboring voices
whose dialogue enriches the study of contemporary music theater.


Author: Dominic Symonds, Millie Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/24/2013
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780199997169

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2014 pg. 262

About the Author

Dominic Symonds is Reader in Drama at the University of Lincoln and, with George Burrows, joint editor of the journal Studies in Musical Theatre.

Millie Taylor is Professor of Musical Theatre at The University of Winchester and author of Musical Theatre, Realism, and Entertainment (2012).

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