Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy.

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'A fresh, innovative and rigorous work on a largely unexplored aspect of Japanese performance and urban space in the 1960s, this book will appeal to scholars and students from across several disciplinary boundaries.' - Alan Cummings, SOAS University of London, UK

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University of Melbourne, Australia

Peter Eckersall

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Peter Eckersall teaches Theatre Studies in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. Recent publications include Kawamura Takeshi's Nippon Wars and Other Plays and Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era (with Denise Varney, Barbara Hatley and Chris Hudson). He is a specialist of contemporary performance and a dramaturgy.

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Book Title: Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan
Book Subtitle: City, Body, Memory
Authors: Peter Eckersall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137017383
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-01737-6Published: 27 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43707-8Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01738-3Published: 24 September 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 183
Topics: Asian Culture, Theatre and Performance Studies, Theatre History, Performing Arts, Cultural History, Cultural Studies

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