Theatre Aurality
This book explores the critical field of theatre sound and the sonic phenomena of theatre. It draws together a wide range of related topics, including sound design and sonic sonographies, voice as a performance of sound, listening as auditory performance,
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Theatre Aurality
“Lynne Kendrick has presented those of us who think about theater and performance a useful challenge, namely to reconsider the uses of sound in this very sonically-ordered set of practices. Noting and describing how theater—despite its name, which suggests it is primarily ‘a place of seeing’—has long been in reality a place of hearing and listening, Kendrick gets us to think more broadly about not merely what sound serves in theater but what sound does and can do in theater. Grounded in solid historical and scientific scholarship about both sonic and theater research, Kendrick also presents us with case studies of the most current sorts of sonic practices in theater production and audience reception, from cases using new technologies to cases using new twists on long-standing practices that now demand new forms of audience attention. The result is a book that should challenge a number of the preconceptions dominant in performance and theater studies.” —Prof. James Hamilton, Kansas State University, USA
Lynne Kendrick
Theatre Aurality
Lynne Kendrick The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama London, UK
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