Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960

Making Tracks
Herausgeber: Bush-Bailey, Gilli; Flaherty, Kate

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circus-removing traditional boundaries that separate studies of performance, and celebrating difference and transformation in style, intention, and delivery. Well known, or obscure, travelling performers faced dangers at sea and hazardous journeys across land. Their tracks, made in pursuit of fortune and fame, intersected with those made by earlier storytellers in search for food. Touring Performance and Global Exchange takes a fresh look at such tracks-the material remains-demonstrating that moving performance does far more than transfer repertoires and people; it transforms them. Touring performance has too often beenconceived in diasporic terms, as a fixed product radiating out from a cultural centre. This collection maps different patterns-ones that comprise reversed flows, cross currents, and continually proliferating centres of meaning in complex networks of global exchange. This collection will be of great interest to scholars and students in theatre, music, drama studies, and cultural history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780367519506
• ISBN-10: 036751950X
• Artikelnr.: 62798625

Autorenporträt

Gilli Bush-Bailey is Professor Emerita of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, United Kingdom. Kate Flaherty is a Senior Lecturer in English and Drama at the Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgment
Introduction: Kate Flaherty and Gilli Bush-Bailey
Vanishing cts and Making Tracks
1: Diana James and Inawinytji Williamson
Kungkarangkalpa: Travelling Women of the Seven Sisters Songline
Part 1: Ephemerality and creative methodology
2: Joanne Tompkins and Liyang Xia
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cantonese Opera Performances in the Victorian
Goldfields
3: Jacky Bratton and Gilli Bush-Bailey
Bodies of Evidence: The unremarkable history of Emma Stanley (1816-1881)
4: Anna-Sophie Jürgens
Lady Clowns: Clown-Ballerinas, Dancing "Clownesses" and Female Clowns on
the Popular Stage around 1900
5: Jane Woollard (University of Tasmania)
Tracks, Knots, Stage Tact and Boots: A Reflection
Part II: Peril, illness and ageing
6: Marlis Schweitzer
"It Was a Most Beautiful Moonlit Night...": Mrs. John Drew's Shipwreck
Narratives
7: Peta Tait
Risk and Colonial Touring: Female Circus Performers in Aerial and Lion Acts
8: Janice Norwood
Reading Race, Repertoire and Transcontinental Reception through Madame
Celeste's Colonial Encounter
9: Kerry Murphy
"Covent Garden on Wheels" Thomas Quinlan's Operatic tours of 1912-1914 and
beyond
10: Laura Ginters
"Let me come to Athens [/Lamplough], shelter me, accept me in your home":
Medea Transported to the Goldfields and Beyond in Nineteenth-Century
Australia.
Part III: Reversing flows and Cross currents
11: Kate Flaherty
Fanny Kemble, Slavery, and Transatlantic Commodity Trade
12: Katherine K. Preston
Women Take Control: Managers of English-Language Opera Companies in Late
19th-Century America
13: Sarah Balkin
Transporting Humour: Artemus Ward and American Comedy in Britain
14: Gillian Arrighi
Australian Child Actors on Early Twentieth-century Touring Circuits
15: Mark Houlahan
Crossing the Ditch: Trans-Tasman Stages 1841-1896
16: Veronica Kelly (University of Queensland)
Between the "Theatre Game" and Anthropology: International and Indigenous
Black Women Entertainers Perform Modernity in Australia 1950s-1960s