Olav Harsløf

The Great Festival (eBook, PDF)

A Theoretical Performance Narrative of Antiquity's Feasts and the Modern Rock Festival

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Produktbeschreibung

The Great Festival presents and analyzes two historical festivals - the ancient Dionysus Festival and the present Roskilde Festival. The purpose is to set up two comparable structures or 'codes' to explain the universal artistic effects, structures and fascination of the festival.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000051537
• Artikelnr.: 58836601

Autorenporträt

Olav Harsløf is former professor at the Department of Performance Design, Roskilde University, Denmark, and before that head of The Danish National Academy of Theatre, and the Danish National Conservatory of Rhythmic Music. He has, together with Dorita Hannah, edited the book Performance Design (Museum Tusculanum Press 2008) and written the article "PHantom of the Operas in Sidney and Copenhagen"; and together with Erik Kristiansen edited the book Engaging Spaces - Sites of Performance, Interaction and Reflection (Museum Tusculanum Press 2015) and written the article "Space as Provocation".

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Festival Myths: "A Classic Tragedy"
Dionysus at Roskilde?
Festival and Carnival
Performance Design
Theoretics and Methodologies
What is a Festival?
Dionysian and Apollonian
The Dilemma of Researching Antiquity
Democracy or Phallocracy?
In the Beginning was the Agora
New Research
The Scene is Set - and Moved
The Dionysian Feast
The Festival Square: Hall & Tribune
The Wooden Greek Theater
Repertoire
The Playwrights
Women in the Theater?
Music and Song
"The Singing Jar"
The Music Culture
Theater Music
The Instruments
Aulos and Auloi
Notes
Dance
Theater
Buck Song?
Theater Sport and X-Factor
The Festival
Standard Program for Athens' Great Dionysian Feast in the Classical Era
Tragedy's Paradigmatic Function
The Cult of Dionysus
Gods and Humans
Orgy or Festival?
The Pan Athenaic Festival
The Procession
Analysis
Performance Studies
"Social Drama"
Antiquity's Social Drama
Ritual and Entertainment
"Restored Behavior"
The Performative Space
The Code of Dionysus
The Roskilde Festival
The Livestock Fairgrounds
Research Situation and Methodology
Music in Time - Time in Music
The 68 Youth Revolution
The Movements
The Isle of Wight
Woodstock
The Three Woodstocks
At Roskilde
The Roskilde Foundation
The Police
The Canopy Symbol
Organization and Economy
The Music
Instruments and Gear
The Program
Nude Culture
The Great Liberation
Orgies
Mud Wrestling and the Naked Race
Free Sex
#MeToo
The Accident
The Festival's Leader
Dionysus at Roskilde
Roskilde
The Code of Roskilde
The Great Festival
The Performative Space
Bibliography
Index