Performance and Media : Taxonomies for a Changing Field
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 31356533
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.3998/mpub.5582757
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- ISBN
- 978-0-472-07290-3
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Parker-Starbuck is co-author and conceiver of the entire book, which includes individual chapters by each of the three contributors, but with input from all authors. Parker-Starbuck’s individual chapter is entitled, ‘Cyborg Returns: Always-Already Subject Technologies,’ and the book was commissioned by University of Michigan for their Digital Initiatives series and is frequently used in performance and media classes. Working within a more science-based model, the three authors began by workshopping the concept of the book, as explained in the acknowledgments, across several conferences over several years, developing the ideas of the book in conversation and dialogue with each other and participants at these events. We focused the research around the concept of ‘taxonomy,’ emerging as a term in the 1800s but extending as an idea back to classification systems of the Greeks. For this book we strove to expand the rigidity of such systems by exploring a range of systems through which to analyse aspects of media in performance. Each author had worked at the forefront of media and performance scholarship, and, as explained in the introduction, was attempting thorough this book to focus on ‘developing ways to understand performances within a system . . . on taxonomic structures, and, more importantly, methodologies for generating fluid and dynamic structures, capable of responding effectively not only to the current examples of performance and media intersections, but also incorporating new forms as they emerge’ (2-3) The introductory and concluding chapters ‘Texts and Contexts,’ ‘History of Taxonomy,’ and ‘Intersections and Applications,’ were co-conceived and written by all three authors and each author then produced a chapter based on their individual research around taxonomic systems. Our final chapter models a well-known performance through all three taxonomies, while encouraging readers to also develop their own methods.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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