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-- The Journal of Performance Studies - T147 (Fall 1995) --
TDR is the only journal that explores the diverse world of performance
with an emphasis on the intercultural, interdisciplinary and experimental.
It covers theatre, music, dance, entertainment, media, sports, politics,
aesthetics of everyday life, games, plays and ritual.
The journal is edited by Richard Schechner of the Department of
Performance Studies, New York University, and is published quarterly
by The MIT Press. Although TDR is not yet an electronic journal, you
can browse through sample articles available on-line through the
Electronic Newsstand and order via e-mail from The MIT Press (see
directions below). Check out our table of contents!
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// In This Issue - T147 Fall 1995 \\
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/TDR Comment
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Theatre Not Dead - by Jonathan Warman
/Letters, Etc.
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"TDR Con and Pro" - a letter from Richard Hornby and a letter from
Olivia Lynn Pipis
/Articles
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Performing and the Real Thing in the Postmodern Museum - by Tracy C. Davis
A Sense of the Possible: Miles Davis and the Semiotics of Improvised
Performance - by Christopher Smith
Suzan-Lori Parks and Liz Diamond: Doo-a-diddly-dit-dit - an interview by
Steven Drukman
No es facil: Notes on the Negotiation of Cubanidad and Exilic Memory in
Carmelita Tropicana's Milk of Amnesia - by Jose Esteban Munoz
Carmelita Tropicana Unplugged - an interview by David Roman
Milk of Amnesia Leche de Amnesia - by Carmelita Tropicana
The Stages of Age: The Growth of Senior Theatre - by Anne Davis Basting
Kabuki Goes Official: The 1878 Opening of the Shintomi-za - by Takahashi
Yuichiro
Translating Collaboration: The Joy Luck Club and Intercultural Theatre - by
Claire A. Conceison
/Book Reviews
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Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance by Jill
Dolan - reviewed by Lesley K. Ferris
Giving the Body Its Due edited by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone; Body,
Movement, and Culture: Kinesthetic and Visual Symbolism in a Philippine
Community by Sally Ann Ness; Reading the Social Body edited by Catherine
R. Burroughs and Jeffrey David Ehrenreich; The Body Social: Symbolism,
Self and Society by Anthony Synnott; The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and
Sexuality by Lynda Nead; Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of
"Sex" by Judith Butler; Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
by Kate Bornstein - reviewed by Philip Auslander
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Each TDR issue is filled with photographs, artwork, and scripts that
illustrate every article. The journal, founded in 1955, is 7 x 10 and
a 184 pages per issue.
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