CTR 151 / Summer 2012 "Performance Ethnography" is now available on Project MUSE
This issue expands on Canadian formations of Performance Studies by connecting early work in the ethnography of performance with contemporary practices of performance ethnography. Researchers in folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and communications drew on ethnographic methods initially to understand performance as the emergent, creative elaboration of tradition and repertoire, as an approach to a performer’s interactions with an audience, and to explore how cultural performance effects social change or maintains social order. Contemporary performance studies researchers have built on such uses of ethnography and integrated them with practice-based research and critical pedagogy. Contributions to this issue map these intellectual histories and show how researchers work with performance as an embodied way of knowing and as a means of representing ethnographic work. They share innovations in performance writing, collaborative fieldwork, and social or site-specific intervention. The issue demonstrates the transformative vitality of ethnographic practices in the analysis, devising, and pedagogy of performance.
This issue contains:
Introduction: From Ethnography of Performance to Performance Ethnography
Brian Rusted
pp. 3-6 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0063
Dressing Up and Dressing Down: Costumes, Risky Play, Transgender, and Maritime English Canadian Charivari Paradoxes
Pauline Greenhill
pp. 7-15 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0051
“A Stroll in Heavy Boots”: Studying Polish Roma Women’s Experiences of Aging
Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston
pp. 16-23 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0054
“Frontstage” and “Backstage” in Heritage Performance: What Ethnography Reveals
Sarah Quick
pp. 24-29 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0056
Can Research Become Ceremony?: Performance Ethnography and Indigenous Epistemologies
Virginie Magnat
pp. 30-36 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0058
Staging and Storying Blood from a Stone: A Performative Reflection in Three Acts
Shauna M. MacDonald
pp. 37-43 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0060
Garden/ /Suburbia: Mapping the Non-Aristocratic in Lawrence Park
Melanie Bennett
pp. 44-49 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0062
Archives, Heritage, Living History: Locating the Prince House through Performance (and) Ethnography
Bryanne Young
pp. 50-54 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0050
Highway to the Valley
Michelle La Flamme
pp. 55-59 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0053
Script
Ana’s Shadow
Tara Goldstein
pp. 60-81 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0055
Views and Reviews
Fresh Print in Canada
Natalie Alvarez
pp. 82-83 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0057
Bienvenue
Jen Harvie
pp. 83-85 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0059
Canada’s Feminist Past, Present, and Future
Kim Solga
pp. 85-87 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0061
Taking Root, Routing Talk: Charting the Terrain of Asian Canadian Theatre
Parie Leung
pp. 88-91 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0064
A Cautionary Tale of Performance Ethnography
Brian Rusted
pp. 91-93 | DOI: 10.1353/ctr.2012.0052
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