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100 1 _aOvadija, Mladen,
_d1947-
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aDramaturgy of sound in the avant-garde and postdramatic theatre /
_cMladen Ovadija.
264 1 _aMontréal & Kingston :
_bMcGill-Queen's University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a252 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
_bnc
501 _aP.B
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-243) and index.
505 0 _aThe performativity of voice and sound in theatre -- Avant-garde and postmodern conceptions of aurality -- Sound poetry and Bruitist performance : words-in-freedom -- Zaum : from a "beyonsense" language to an idiom of theatre -- The dramaturgy of sound : from futurist Serate to Sintesi -- Sound as structure : toward an aural architecture of theatre -- The avant-garde dramaturgy of sound.
520 _aSound is born and dies with action. In this surprising, resourceful study, Mladen Ovadija makes a case for the centrality of sound as an integral element of contemporary theatre. He argues that sound in theatre inevitably "betrays" the dramatic text, and that sound is performance. Until recently, theatrical sound has largely been regarded as supplemental to the dramatic plot. Now, however, sound is the subject of renewed interest in theatrical discourse. Dramaturgy of sound, Ovadija argues, reads and writes a theatrical idiom based on two inseparable, intertwined strands - the gestural, corporeal power of the performer's voice and the structural value of stage sound. His extensive research in experimental performance and his examination of the pioneering work by Futurists, Dadaists, and Expressionists enable Ovadija to create a powerful study of autonomous sound as an essential element in the creation of synesthetic theatre. Dramaturgy of Sound in the Avant-garde and Postdramatic Theatre presents a cogent argument about a continuous tradition in experimental theatre running from early modernist to contemporary works.
530 _aIssued also in electronic formats.
650 0 _aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)
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650 0 _aExperimental theater
_xHistory and criticism.
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650 0 _aTheaters
_xSound effects.
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