Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound

Susan Bennett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2019
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-4742-4647-7 (ISBN)

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Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Addressing sound across history and through progressive developments in relevant technologies, the volume opens up the study of theatrical production and live performance to understand conceptual and pragmatic concerns about the sonic. By way of developed case studies (including Aristophanes’s The Frogs, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Cocteau’s The Human Voice, and Rimini Protokoll’s Situation Rooms), readers can explore new methodologies and approaches for their own work on sound as a performance component. In an engagement with the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of sound studies, this book samples exciting new thinking relevant to theatre and performance studies.

Part of the Theory for Theatre Studies series which introduces core theoretical concepts that underpin the discipline, Sound provides a balance of essential background information and new scholarship, and is grounded in detailed examples that illuminate and equip readers for their own sonic explorations. Volumes follow a consistent three-part structure: a historical overview of how the term has been understood within the discipline; more recent developments illustrated by substantive case studies; and emergent trends and interdisciplinary connections. Volumes are supported by further online resources including chapter overviews, illustrative material and guiding questions.

Online resources to accompany this book are available at:
https://bloomsbury.com/uk/theory-for-theatre-studies-sound-9781474246460/

Susan Bennett is University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Acknowledgements
Series Preface

SOUND: An Introduction

SECTION ONE: Classical Sound

Theatres in Ancient Greece and Aristotle’s Poetics

The vocal map of ancient Greek drama
Case study: Aristophanes’s The Frogs

Vitruvius on acoustics: De Architectura

Shakespeare’s Globe and Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum

Acoustic world-making on the early modern stage
Case study: Shakespeare’s The Tempest

A sonic imagination of early modern London

SECTION TWO: Avant-garde Sound

New technologies for sound performance
Case study: Luigi Russolo’s intonamuri and ‘The Art of Noise’

Hanging on the telephone: Sigmund Freud and Roland Barthes
Case study: Jean Cocteau’s The Human Voice

The sounds of silence: John Cage’s future of music

Acousmatics and radiophonics: Pierre Schaffer and the BBC

Aura and archive: making sound memories
Case study: Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape

SECTION THREE: Experiential Sound

Prosthetic performance and deterritorialised listening
Case study: Janet Cardiff’s sound walks

Listening to women: Andrea Hornick and Luce Irigaray

Affective theatres of embodied sound

Case study: Shannon Yee’s Reassembled, Slightly Askew

Case study: Rimini Protokoll’s Situation Rooms

Coda: sound across the world

References

Further Reading

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2019
Reihe/Serie	Theory for Theatre Studies
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Kim Solga, Susan Bennett
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	212 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4742-4647-8 / 1474246478
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-4647-7 / 9781474246477
Zustand	Neuware