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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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