Documenting Performance

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The first book to provide a collection of key writings about the process of documenting performance, focused not on questions of liveness or the artistic qualities of documents, but rather on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance.

Editor	Toni Sant
Publisher	Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
ISBN	978-1472588173
Reference	P3235
Date	2017

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