Performance and Authenticity in the Arts (Paperback)

List of contributors; Editor's acknowledgements; 1. Performance and authenticity Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell; Part I. Performance, Religion, and Authenticity: 2. The Poetics of performance: the necessity of spectacle, music, and dance in Aristotelian tragedy Gregory Scott; 3. The 'confessing animal' on stage: authenticity, asceticism, and the constant 'inconstancie' of Elizabethan character Peter Iver Kaufman; 4. Art, religion, and the hermeneutics of authenticity Nicholas Davey; Part II. Understanding, Performance, and Authenticity: 5. Understanding music Michael Tanner; 6. Understanding music Malcolm Budd; 7. Musical performance as analytic communication Fred Everett Maus; 8. Performance authenticity: possible, practical, virtuous Stan Godlovitch; 9. Why is it impossible in language to articulate the meaning of a work of music? Joseph J. Kockelmans; Part III. Authenticity, Poetry, and Performance: 10. Inauthenticity, insincerity, and poetry Alex Neill; 11. Poetry's oral stage Peter Middleton; 12. True stories: Spalding Gray and the authenticities of performance Henry M. Sayre; Index.