Acoustic Interculturalism Listening to Performance

by Tan, Marcus Cheng Chye

• ISBN13: 9780230354166
• ISBN10: 0230354165
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-19
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Acoustic Interculturalismis a study of the soundscapes of intercultural performance through the examination of sound's performativity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines an akoumenological reception of sound to postulate the need for an acoustic knowing an awareness of how sound shapes the intercultural experience.

Author Biography

Marcus Cheng Chye Tan completed his doctoral degree at Trinity College Dublin. He has published several essays on intercultural performance, music and Shakespeare, and the intermediality of film and computer games. He is also the winner of the Theatre and Performance Research Association's (TaPRA) postgraduate essay competition(2010).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Series Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: the Topography of an Acoustic Interculturalism	p. 1
The Performativity of Sound and the Soundscapes of Culture	p. 29
Acoustic Mimesis: Ethical Cadence and Sonic Violence in Tambours Sur La Digue	p. 57
(Echo)Locating Other Shakespeares: an Aesthetics of Pop and the Ear of the Other	p. 89
Listening in/to Asia: Ong Keng Sen's Desdemona and the Polyphonies of Asia	p. 133
'If Music Be the Food of Love': 'Fourth World' Universals in Ong Keng Sen's Awaking	p. 165
Conclusion: After Authenticity: Naming the Intercultural	p. 197
Notes	p. 215
References	p. 229
Index	p. 245
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