Politics, performance and popular culture

Politics, performance and popular cultureWorking with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political, this book brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base.

survive without being exiled to the quantum mysteries of consciousness

It is made up largely of conversations conducted by the author with members of these organizations that provide insight into the circumstances of artistic production during the decade leading up to the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989

that there has been a process of civic disengagement as voluntary organisations have lost members

This focused collection of essays on the alternative establishments which both Presbyterians and Catholics attempted to create in Britain and Ireland offers a dynamic new perspective on the evolution of post-reformation religious communities within Britain and Ireland

Scott McKinnon builds the book from a variety of sources

in collaboration with Harry Kipper

‘Life Chances

with time shifts in a non-linear narrativization

sociology and performance studies – and employing case studies from a range of practices – the essays presented here combine to form a unique interdisciplinary exploration of the functions of repetition in contemporary culture

The analysis of film music is emerging as one of the fastest-growing areas of interest in film studies

aesthetics and language

It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them