Sound is born and dies with action. In this surprising, resourceful study, Mladen Ovadija makes a case for the centrality of sound as an integral element of contemporary theatre. He argues that sound in theatre inevitably "betrays" the dramatic text, and that sound is performance.
Until recently, theatrical sound has largely been regarded as supplemental to the dramatic plot. Now, however, sound is the subject of renewed interest in theatrical discourse. Dramaturgy of sound, Ovadija argues, reads and writes a theatrical idiom based on two inseparable, intertwined strands - the gestural, corporeal power of the performer's voice and the structural value of stage sound. His extensive research in experimental performance and his examination of the pioneering work by Futurists, Dadaists, and Expressionists enable Ovadija to create a powerful study of autonomous sound as an essential element in the creation of synesthetic theatre.
Dramaturgy of Sound in the Avant-garde and Postdramatic Theatre presents a cogent argument about a continuous tradition in experimental theatre running from early modernist to contemporary works.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 792.02/4
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780773588660 9780773541733
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- PN2091.S6
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- O93 2013eb
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- 1 electronic text ([vii], 252 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00232970 (OCoLC)838761109 (CaOOCEL)444738
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Table of Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Introduction 12
- 1. The Performativity of Voice and Sound in Theatre 18
- 2. Avant-garde and Postmodern Conceptions of Aurality 33
- 3. Sound Poetry and Bruitist Performance: Words-in-Freedom 66
- 4. Zaum: From a “Beyonsense” Language to an Idiom of Theatre 94
- 5. The Dramaturgy of Sound: From Futurist Serate to Sintesi 123
- 6. Sound as Structure: Toward an Aural Architecture of Theatre 154
- 7. The Avant-Garde Dramaturgy of Sound 188
- Epilogue 215
- Notes 218
- Bibliography 242
- Index 254
