TY - BOOK ID - 609846 TI - The archive and the repertoire : performing cultural memory in the Americas PY - 2003 SN - 9780822331360 9780822331230 0822331233 0822331365 0822385317 1282921037 9786612921032 PB - Durham, N.C. Duke University Press DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of minorities KW - Theatrical science KW - America KW - #VCV monografie 2005 KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - #SBIB:39A74 KW - #SBIB:316.7C210 KW - Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning KW - Etnografie: Amerika KW - Cultuursociologie: kunst: algemeen KW - Ethnicity KW - Memory KW - Minorities KW - North and south. KW - Performance art KW - Performing arts KW - Postcolonialism and the arts KW - Postcolonialism KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions. KW - Political aspects KW - Civilization. KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Social conditions KW - North and south KW - Arts, Modern KW - Happenings (Art) KW - Post-colonialism KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Political science KW - Decolonization KW - Arts and postcolonialism KW - Arts KW - Show business KW - South and north KW - Acculturation KW - Culture conflict KW - Retention (Psychology) KW - Intellect KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Comprehension KW - Executive functions (Neuropsychology) KW - Mnemonics KW - Perseveration (Psychology) KW - Reproduction (Psychology) KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Cultural fusion KW - Multiculturalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Ethnic minorities KW - Foreign population KW - Minority groups KW - Persons KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Discrimination KW - Ethnic relations KW - Majorities KW - Plebiscite KW - Race relations KW - Segregation KW - Americas KW - New World KW - Western Hemisphere KW - Mémoire KW - Art de performance KW - Arts du spectacle KW - Art et histoire KW - Société KW - Aspect politique KW - Mémoire KW - Société UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:609846 AB - Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory--conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances--offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact. The Archive and the Repertoire invites a remapping of the Americas based on traditions of embodied practice. Examining various genres of performance including demonstrations by the children of the disappeared in Argentina, the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani, and televised astrological readings by Univision personality Walter Mercado, Taylor explores how the archive and the repertoire work together to make political claims, transmit traumatic memory, and forge a new sense of cultural identity. Through her consideration of performances such as Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña's show Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit, Taylor illuminates how scenarios of discovery and conquest haunt the Americas, trapping even those who attempt to dismantle them. Meditating on events like those of September 11, 2001 and media representations of them, she examines both the crucial role of performance in contemporary culture and her own role as witness to and participant in hemispheric dramas. ER -