Screen LibraryTouring performance and global exchange 1850-1960 : making tracks /
This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. This book investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circus--removing t...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance. |
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This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. This book investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circus--removing traditional boundaries that separate studies of performance, and celebrating difference and transformation in style, intention, and delivery. Well known, or not known at all, travelling performers faced dangers at sea and hazardous journeys across land. Their tracks, made in pursuit of fortune and fame, intersected with those made by earlier storytellers in search for food. Making Tracks takes a fresh look at such tracks--the material remains--demonstrating that moving performance does far more than transfer repertoires and people; it transforms them. Touring performance has too often been conceived in diasporic terms, as a fixed product radiating out from a cultural centre. This collection maps different patterns--ones that comprise reversed flows, cross currents, and continually proliferating centres of meaning in complex networks of global exchange. This collection will be of great interest to scholars and students in theatre, music, drama studies and cultural history. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780367519667 0367519666 9780367519506 036751950X |
| Index Number: | PN3013 |
| CLC: | J809.611 |
| Call Number: | J809.611/T727 |
| Contents: | List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors AcknowledgmentsEditors' IntroductionEditors' Introduction: Kate Flaherty and Gilli Bush-BaileyVanishing Acts and Making Tracks1: Diana James and Inawinytji Williamson Kungkarangkalpa: Travelling Women of the Seven Sisters Songline Part One: Ephemerality and creative methodology2: Joanne Tompkins and Liyang XiaMid-Nineteenth-Century Cantonese Opera Performances in the Victorian Goldfields3: Jacky Bratton and Gilli Bush-Bailey Bodies of Evidence: The unremarkable history of Emma Stanley (1816-1881)4: Anna-Sophie Jürgens Lady Clowns: Clown-Ballerinas, Dancing "Clownesses" and Female Clowns on the Popular Stage around 19005: Jane Woollard (University of Tasmania)Tracks, Knots, Stage Tact and Boots: A ReflectionPart Two: Peril, illness and ageing6: Marlis Schweitzer "It was a most beautiful moonlit night--7: Peta Tait Risk and Colonial Touring: Female Circus Performers in Aerial and Lion Acts8: Janice Norwood Reading Race, Repertoire and Transcontinental Reception through Madame Celeste's Colonial Encounter9: Kerry Murphy "Covent Garden on Wheels" Thomas Quinlan's Operatic tours of 1912-1914 and beyond10: Laura Ginters "Let me come to Athens [/Lamplough], shelter me, accept me in your home":Medea Transported to the Goldfields and Beyond in Nineteenth-Century Australia.Part Three: Reversing flows / Cross currents11: Kate Flaherty Fanny Kemble, Slavery, and Transatlantic Commodity Trade12: Katherine K. PrestonWomen Take Control: Managers of English-Language Opera Companies in Late 19th-Century America13: Sarah Balkin Transporting Humour: Artemus Ward and American Comedy in Britain14: Gillian ArrighiAustralian Child Actors on Early Twentieth-century Touring Circuits15: Mark Houlahan Crossing the Ditch: Trans-Tasman Stages 1841-189616: Veronica Kelly (University of Queensland) Between the "theatre game" and anthropology: international and indigenous black women entertainers perform modernity in Australia 1950s-1960s |