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Aesthetics of Pop Music
In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a constellation of different media channels, social spaces and behavioural systems, of which music is only a part. Its own logic of attraction is based less on compositions and the expression of subjectivity and more on indexicality, real or psuedo-involunatary effects as recorded by sound technologies, and on studio discipline and staging, and hence on performance.
By elaborating his innovative account of pop music as a constellation, Diederichsen develops a theory that distinguishes itself from sociology, cultural studies, media studies and ethnography, while at the same time drawing on and encompassing them all.
Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia
Captures the excitement of a key period in the emergence of postdramatic theatre in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s.
Multimedia Performance
Provides a comprehensive overview of the development, theory and definitive characteristics of a rapidly developing and popular area of practice.
Still Life Issue 3
Third issue of the online and printed zine about relationships and configurations in which one person is still while others are not.
Merce Cunningham: origins and influence
On development of Cunningham's practice.
In Defence of Formalism
On the politics of disinterestedness.
Acting Out: Feminist Performances
The first book-length introduction to and critical analysis of contemporary feminist performance, from Madonna to Karen Finley to Cherrie Moraga.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Performance by Artists
A collection of essays, documents, & bibiliography reagrding performance art edited by people associated with a Toronto-based arts organization.
Towards an embodied poetics of failure
Exploration of violence and trauma in needcompany’s Marketplace 76.
Queer Dramaturgies
Starting from the premise that live performance is experienced in a material, local context, the chapters analyse the intricate and complex workings of queer dramaturgy within specific venues, cities, nations or transnationally.
