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Theatre Aurality 1st ed. 2017


Theatre Aurality 1st ed. 2017

Hardback by Kendrick, Lynne

Theatre Aurality

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ISBN:
9781137452320
Publication Date:
16 Jan 2018
Edition/language:
1st ed. 2017 / English
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages:
164 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 21 - 26 May 2024
Theatre Aurality

Description

This book explores the critical field of theatre sound and the sonic phenomena of theatre. It draws together a wide range of related topics, including sound design and sonic sonographies, voice as a performance of sound, listening as auditory performance, and audience as resonance. It explores radical forms of sonic performance and our engagement in it, from the creation of sonic subjectivities to noise as a politics of sound. The introductory chapters trace the innate aurality of theatre and the history of sound effects and design, while also interrogating why the art of theatre sound was delayed and underrepresented in philosophy as well as theatre and performance theory. Subsequent chapters explore the emergence of aurally engaged theatre practice and focus on examples of contemporary sound in and as theatre, including theatre in the dark, headphone theatre and immersive theatre, amongst others, through theories of perception and philosophies of listening, vocality, sonority and noise.

Contents

Introduction.- 1. Aurality.- 2. Theatre aurality: beginnings.- 3. Listening: headphone theatre and auditory performance.- 4. Voice: a performance of sound.- 5. Noise: a politics of sound.- 6. Listening: sonority and subjectivity.- Conclusion ... and sound.- References.- Index.-

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