'In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory—conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances—offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact. The Archive and the Repertoire invites a remapping of the Americas based on traditions of embodied practice.

Examining various genres of performance including demonstrations by the children of the disappeared in Argentina, the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani, and televised astrological readings by Univision personality Walter Mercado, Taylor explores how the archive and the repertoire work together to make political claims, transmit traumatic memory, and forge a new sense of cultural identity.' -from publisher's website
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REF.TAD7
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2003

No of pages

329

ISBN / ISSN

9780822331230

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Who, When, What, Why

Acts of Transfer

Scenarios of Discovery: Reflections on Performance and Ethnography

Memory as Cultural Practice: Mestizaje, Hybridity, Transculturation

La Raza Cosmetica: Walter Mercado Performs Latino Psychic Space

False Identifications: Minority Populations Mourn Diana

'You Are Here': H.I.J.O.S. and the DNA of Performance

Staging Traumatic Memory: Yuyachkani

Denise Stoklos: The Politics of Decipherability

Lost in the Field of Vision: Witnessing September 11

Hemispheric Performances

The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas
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