Performance and authenticity in the arts / edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kemal, Salim, editor.

Gaskell, Ivan, editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in philosophy and the arts.

Cambridge studies in philosophy and the arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance.

Authenticity (Philosophy).

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Performance & Authenticity in the Arts

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars from music, drama, poetry, performance art, religion, classics and philosophy to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. The volume begins with a perspective on traditional understandings of that relation, examining the crucial role of performance in the Poetics, the marriage of art with religion, the experiences of religious and aesthetic authenticity, and modernist conceptions of authenticity. Several essays then consider music as a performative art. The final essays discuss the link of authenticity to sincerity and truth in poetry, explain how performance, as an authentic feature of poetry, embodies a collective effort, and culminate in a discussion of the dark side of performance - its constant susceptibility to inauthenticity. Together the essays suggest how issues of performance and authenticity enter into consideration of a wide range of the arts.

Contents:

Performance and authenticity / Salim Kemal & Ivan Gaskell

The poetics of performance: the necessity of spectacle, music, and dance in Aristotelian tragedy / Gregory Scott

The "confessing animal" on stage: authenticity, asceticism, and the constant "inconstancie" of Elizabethan character / Peter Iver Kaufman

Art, religion, and the hermeneutics of authenticity / Nicholas Davey

Understanding music / Michael Tanner

Understanding music / Malcolm Budd

Musical performance as analytical communication / Fred Everett Maus

Performance authenticity: possible, practical, virtuous / Stan Godlovitch

Why is it impossible in language to articulate the meaning of a work of music? / Joseph J. Kockelmans

Inauthenticity, insincerity, and poetry / Alex Neill

Poetry's oral stage / Peter Middleton

True stories: Spalding Gray and the authenticities of performance / Henry M. Sayre.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781139085731

1139085735

9780511520051

0511520050

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07694 hdl