Performing Wales - People, Memory and Place — People, Memory and Place

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Cyfrol sy'n defnyddio syniadau o'r maes astudiaethau perfformio er mwyn archwilio diwylliant Cymraeg fel perfformiad. Canolbwyntir ar dair agwedd sy'n ganolog i'r astudiaeth - dirnadaeth o bobl, cof a lle - gan eu harchwilio mewn perthynas ag astudiaethau achos penodol a ddygwyd o amgueddfa, treftadaeth, gŵyl a theatr.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

This book uses ideas from performance studies to examine Welsh culture as performance. Focusing on three aspects central to the investigation – notions of people, memory and place, all of which are central to definitions of Welsh cultural performance – the book explores these aspects in relation to specific case studies taken from the museum, from heritage, festival, and theatre.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Contents Preface List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 People, memory and place: ideas for a consideration of Welsh performance Cenedl: people Cof: memory Lle: place 2 Amgueddfa Amgueddfa Werin Cymru Sain Ffagan / St Fagan’s National History Museum: people, memory and place Sain Ffagan and the performance of culture as poiesis 3 Treftadaeth Ail-chwarae hanes, living history: making and breaking history through performance Re-enactment 3 Gŵyl: festival Eisteddfod: people, memory and place Performing Wales in America’s Front Garden 4 Theatre Places Brith Gof: place and poiesis National theatres and their places Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru: Wales as Place / The Place of Wales Crossings in performance and technology: memory and kinesis in the work of Eddie Ladd Afterword

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Lisa Lewis is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, and a Director of the Centre for Media and Culture in Small Nations, at the University of South Wales.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Key selling points 1. It is the first book to locate Welsh culture and performance explicitly within performance studies, and utilises performance studies methods as an optic through which to analyse Welsh culture. 2. It uses ideas and concepts from a wide range of fields and methods, for example, memory studies, anthropology, the study of space and place, literature, history and historiography, as well as theatre and performance studies, reflecting on the relevance of several ideas to the function of culture as performance. 3. It approaches culture in terms of performance, that is, as a live, ephemeral and event-based manifestation of culture that is not necessarily located in textual form.