Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research
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A collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies.
| Artist / Author | various |
|---|---|
| Editor | Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms, C J W L Wee |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN | 978-0-230-00845-8 |
| Reference | P1484 |
| Date | 2010 |
| Type | Publication |
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