Philosophy of the Performing Arts [NOOK Book]

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This book provides an accessible yet sophisticated introduction to the significant philosophical issues concerning the performing arts.
  • Presents the significant philosophical issues concerning the performing arts in an accessible style, assuming no prior knowledge
  • Provides a critical overview and a comprehensive framework for thinking about the performing arts
  • Examines the ...
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Overview

This book provides an accessible yet sophisticated introduction to the significant philosophical issues concerning the performing arts.
  • Presents the significant philosophical issues concerning the performing arts in an accessible style, assuming no prior knowledge
  • Provides a critical overview and a comprehensive framework for thinking about the performing arts
  • Examines the assumption that classical music provides the best model for thinking about artistic performance across the performing arts
  • Explores ways in which the ‘classical paradigm’ might be extended to other musical genres, to theatre, and to dance
  • Applies the thinking on performing arts to the issue of ‘performance art’
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“This is a remarkable and remarkably useful book, and for much the same reason … The other result is that professionals in the philosophy of art will have to rise to the challenge. Davies has set the bar very high.” (Oxford Journals Clippings, 4 May 2012)

"Philosophy of the Performing Arts is a careful and detailed study in analytic philosophical aesthetics ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students through professional/practitioners." (Choice, 1 January 2012)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781444343441
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/23/2011
  • Series: Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts , #3
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 248
  • Product dimensions: 5.91 (w) x 9.84 (h) x 0.59 (d)
  • File size: 326 KB

Meet the Author

David Davies is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He is the author of Art as Performance (Blackwell, 2004), Aesthetics and Literature (2007), and the editor of The Thin Red Line (2008). He has published widely in the philosophy of art on topics relating to the nature of art, artistic value, literature, film, music, theatre, and the visual arts.
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Table of Contents

Part I: Performance and the Classical Paradigm.

Chapter 1 The Nature of Artistic Performance.

I Introduction.

II What is a performance?

III ‘Institutional’ theories of artistic performance.

IV ‘Aesthetic’ theories of artistic performance.

V Artistic performance and ‘artistic regard’.

VI Overview.

Chapter 2 The Classical Paradigm I: The Nature of the Performable Work.

I Introduction: Berthold and Magda go to the symphony.

II The ‘multiple’ nature of performable works.

III Performable works as ‘types’.

IV Varieties of ‘type’ theories: sonicism, instrumentalism, and contextualism.

V Other theories of the performable work.

a/ Performable works as ‘indicated’ types.

b/ Performable works as ‘continuants’.

c/ Performable works as indicatings of types.

d/ Fictionalism about performable works.

Chapter 3 The ‘Classical Paradigm’ II: Appreciating Performable Works in Performance.

I Introduction: talking appreciatively about performable works.

II Can performable works share artistic properties with their performances?

III The ‘Goodman argument’ .

IV Answering the ‘Goodman argument’.

Chapter 4 Authenticity in Musical Performance.

I Introduction.

II ‘Authenticity’ in the arts.

III Three notions of historically authentic performance.

a/ Authenticity defined in terms of composer’s intentions.

b/ Authenticity defined in terms of the ‘sound’ of the work.

c/ Authenticity defined in terms of performance practice.

Chapter 5 Challenges to the Classical Paradigm in Music.

I Introduction: The classical paradigm in the performing arts.

II The scope of the paradigm in classical music.

III Jazz, rock, and the classical paradigm.

a/ Jazz.

b/ Rock.

IV Non-Western music and the classical paradigm.

Chapter 6 The Scope of the Classical Paradigm: Theatre, Dance, and Literature.

I Introduction: Berthold and Magda go to the theatre.

II Theatrical performances and performable works.

III Challenges to the classical paradigm in theatre.

IV Dance and the classical paradigm.

V The novel as performable work?

Part II: Performance as Art .

Chapter 7 Performances as Artworks.

I Introduction: spontaneous performance in the arts.

II The artistic status of performances outside the classical paradigm.

III The artistic status of performances within the classical paradigm.

Chapter 8 Elements of Performance I: Improvisation and Rehearsal.

I Introduction.

II The nature of improvisation.

III Improvisation and performable works: three models.

a/ Improvisation on a theme.

b/ Improvisational composition.

c/ Pure improvisation.

IV Improvisation and recording.

V The place of rehearsal in the performing arts.

Chapter 9 Elements of Performance II: Audience and Embodiment.

I Can there be artistic performance without an audience?

II Audience response.

III The embodied performer and the ‘mirroring’ receiver.

Chapter 10 ‘Performance Art’ and the Performing Arts.

I Introduction.

II Some puzzling cases.

III What is ‘performance art’?

IV When do works of ‘performance art’ involve artistic performances?

V Performance as art: a final case.

Bibliography.

Index .

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