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Accepted Paper:
Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan (University of Sydney) Georgia Curran (University of Sydney) John Napier Jakelin Troy (The University of Sydney) Nicholas Ng (Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts and Culture (WSU)) Lillis Ó Laoire (NUI Galway) Catherine Ingram (University of Sydney, Australia)
Paper short abstract:
Come join us for a captivating roundtable discussion on ‘continuity and change in performance’! This interdisciplinary discussion will feature varied scholarly and artistic takes while grappling with the conundrums vulnerable performative cultural practices pose for creative and activist scholars.
Paper long abstract:
“…it is through performances… that humans project images of themselves and the world to their audiences” (Palmer & Jankowiak 1996:226)
“… constant performance keeps a culture alive” (Bohannan 1991).
Yet the vitality of performances is often of deep concern for scholars and cultural practitioners. This is particularly the case for those working with endangered intangible heritage (Grant 2012) and First Nations cultures (see the Garma Statement, 2002).
As part of the panel on ‘Continuity and change in performance’ there will be a 1-hour roundtable discussion featuring varied takes from scholars and artists. Discussants will share their reflections on performance while grappling with the conundrums vulnerable performative cultural practices pose including issues of essentialism (Sayer 1997), authenticity, the “given” and “added” (Nettl 1983:30), activism and the urgent need for documentation.
References
Bohannan, P. (1991) We, the Alien: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press Inc.
Garma Statement on Indigenous Music and Performance 2002 accessed 24 June 2021
Grant, C. (2012). Rethinking safeguarding: Objections and responses to protecting and promoting endangered musical heritage. Ethnomusicology Forum, Taylor & Francis.
Nettl, B. (1983). "Ethnomusicology: definitions, directions, and problems." In Musics of many cultures: an introduction, edited by Elizabeth May, pp. 1-9. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Palmer G.B. and W.R. Jankowiak. 1996. “Performance and Imagination: Toward an Anthropology of the Spectacular and the Mundane.” Cultural Anthropology 11(2): 225–258.
Sayer, A. (1997). "Essentialism, social constructionism, and beyond." The Sociological Review 45(3): 453-487.
Continuity and change in performance
Session 1 Monday 29 November, 2021, -