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Researching Popular Entertainment

Researching Popular Entertainment

Price, Jason
Baston, Kim

Paperback

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

DanceGeneral SociologyTheater History

ISBN10: 1032566434
ISBN13: 9781032566436
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 27 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Researching Popular Entertainment is an essential volume for scholars delving into the vibrant yet complex world of popular entertainment.

Written by a global network of experts, this book addresses the unique challenges researchers face in this field. The often-dismissed status of popular entertainment, coupled with its reliance on physicality and improvisation over scripted performances, has meant archival and textual sources tend to be more limited than in related theatre and performance disciplines. This scarcity requires historians to find alternative pathways through the available materials to recuperate seemingly insignificant figures and performance forms from our cultural past. This book provides a candid look into the research processes of its authors, highlighting some of the approaches they have adopted to overcome these challenges. It emphasises that reading performance as entertainment is a deliberate methodological choice. Regardless of whether a work is deemed high or low art, legitimate or illegitimate, understanding how it captivates its audience is central to the study of entertainment.

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