Performing Global NetworksNetworks are everywhere: from migrant organisations to information technology, from business to social movements, from international governance to global non-governmental organisations, from theatrical collectives to fan clubs, from memory sites to narrative circles. The portmanteau terms networks, and more specifically, global networks, seem to have become the mots du jour in contemporary cultural and social studies. But what cultural, social and political work do global networks accomplish: what is the work of these networks? This path-breaking collection follows Graeme Thompson's rallying cry for a clearer analytical approach to the ways in which networks are 'enacted, assembled, conducted, and performed.' In its thirteen chapters, scholars from a variety of fields - sociology, theatre and performance studies, peace studies, history, and musicology - as well as social and cultural activists, explore the multiple meanings of global networks and performance. |
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Page 94
bothane event by it Performed as it was within the context of the introduction of
Olomide as the ' king of African music and the participation of the audience
vocally in this praise of the star and his creation as the greatest , we see the
ceremonial ...
bothane event by it Performed as it was within the context of the introduction of
Olomide as the ' king of African music and the participation of the audience
vocally in this praise of the star and his creation as the greatest , we see the
ceremonial ...
Page 96
In this event , then , the majority audience was white and middle - class ,
composed of Irish and other Europeans attending a concert promoted in a world
music context in Dublin . The minority , but vocal and visible audience , was a
diasporic ...
In this event , then , the majority audience was white and middle - class ,
composed of Irish and other Europeans attending a concert promoted in a world
music context in Dublin . The minority , but vocal and visible audience , was a
diasporic ...
Page 100
The migrant audience tends to ' interrupt ( Silverman and Torode 1980 ) the (
majority ) world music audience on these occasions , not just literally , but in the
sense of shifting the discourse through which the event is understood . It
frequently ...
The migrant audience tends to ' interrupt ( Silverman and Torode 1980 ) the (
majority ) world music audience on these occasions , not just literally , but in the
sense of shifting the discourse through which the event is understood . It
frequently ...
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