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TDR provides scholarship on performances and their social, economic and political contexts. With an emphasis on the experimental, avant-garde, intercultural and interdisciplinary, it covers dance theatre, performance art, popular entertainment, media, sports, rituals and performance in politics and everyday life.
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Volume 52, Number 1 (T 197) Spring 2008Table of Contents
TDR Comment
Letters, Etc.
- TDR Comings and Goings
- pp. 14-16
Articles
Pieces
- Artist’s Statement
- pp. 139-153
- Biokhraphia
- pp. 167-178
Critical Acts
This issue’s Critical Acts focuses on “war and other bad shit” in terms of censorship, immigration, and art as a form of political protest and recovery. In “Habeas Corpus,” Ann Pellegrini uses Sally Field’s censored Emmy-acceptance speech to exemplify the Bush administration’s privatization of mourning as a means “to bind us to acts of fatal violence against an objectified and dehumanized ‘enemy.’” In her account of Luigi Nono’s The Forest Is Young and Full of Life, Judy Lochhead examines the possibility of music as activism, noting how history is recycled from the Vietnam War to today. William Bowling and Rachel Carrico describe how art heals in Lakeviews, part of a post-Katrina project. Guillermo Gómez-Peña rages against “border hysteria,” when the “War on Terror” becomes a “war on difference.”
- Habeas Corpus: Behold the Body
- pp. 179-182
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