Performative Arts and Social Transformation | Mira Sack, Milena Meier, Andreas Bürgisser (Hg.)
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What future challenges are we facing already today, what room for action needs to be secured and which impulses result from this for professional future action? Against the backdrop of social transformation processes that pose these questions, the contributors to this volume highlight current developments in the field of performing arts, asking for scientific references to the mode of crisis. Their international framing places different academic positions in an overarching discourse by bringing knowledge from different theatre traditions and cultural contexts into a dialogue.
174 Seiten, transcript, 2025
ISBN 978-3-8376-7427-9
Performative Arts and Social Transformation | Mira Sack, Milena Meier, Andreas Bürgisser (Hg.) [E-Book PDF]
What future challenges are we facing already today, what room for action needs to be secured and which impulses result from this for professional future action? Against the backdrop of social transformation processes that pose these questions, the contributors to this volume highlight current developments in the field of performing arts, asking for scientific references to the mode of crisis. Their international framing places different academic positions in an overarching discourse by bringing knowledge from different theatre traditions and cultural contexts into a dialogue.
174 Seiten, transcript, 2025
ISBN 978-3-8376-7427-9
Acoustics of the Vowel. Preliminaries | Dieter Maurer
It seems as if the fundamentals of how we produce vowels and how they are acoustically represented have been clarified: we phonate and articulate. Using our vocal chords, we produce a vocal sound or noise which is then shaped into a specific vowel sound by the resonances of the pharyngeal, oral, and nasal cavities, that is, the vocal tract. Accordingly, the acoustic description of vowels relates to vowelspecific patterns of relative energy maxima in the sound spectra, known as patterns of formants. The intellectual and empirical reasoning presented in this treatise, however, gives rise to scepticism with respect to this understanding of the sound of the vowel. The reflections and materials presented provide reason to argue that, up to now, a comprehensible theory of the acoustics of the voice and of voiced speech sounds is lacking, and consequently, no satisfying understanding of vowels as an achievement and particular formal accomplishment of the voice exists. Thus, the question of the acoustics of the vowel – and with it the question of the acoustics of the voice itself – proves to be an unresolved fundamental problem.
Theater Vermittlung Schule | Mira Sack, Anton Rey, Stefan Schöbi (Hg.) [E-Book PDF]
Theater und Schule erschienen angesichts ihrer unterschiedlichen Strukturen und Arbeitsweisen als ziemlich gegensätzliches Paar: hier die engen Leitplanken der Lehrpläne, dort die Freiheit der Kunst. Dennoch verfolgen die beiden Institutionen vergleichbare Ziele, setzen zu deren Erreichung aber unterschiedliche Instrumente ein. Der Auftrag der kulturellen Bildung und Kulturvermittlung an die nachwachsende Generation kann jedoch nur von Schule und Theater gemeinsam geleistet werden.
We felt that research on improvisation in theater has to catch up and so we invited 10 advanced researchers of the field to present and discuss their topics. The result was an interesting mix of methods, approaches and academic conven tions. As expected the contributions were quite heterogeneous, since there is no such thing as a “theory of improvisational theater” or even a consensus of which discipline should investigate on it: Psychology? Theater studies? Linguistics? This book compiles most of the contributions of IMPRO TALKS and makes them accessible for an interested public and for further research.
Contributors: Edgar Landgraf, Gunter Lösel , Nicolas J. Zaunbrecher, Tony Frost and Ralph Yarrow, Duncan Marwick, Christian F. Freisleben-Teutscher