Performing Cities [Hardcover]

Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance makers from across the globe, each one covering a particular city and examining it from the dynamic perspectives of performances occurring in cities and the city itself as performance.Writing Performing Cities: an Introduction; Nicolas Whybrow PART I: URBAN RHYTHMS 1. Performing Palermo: Protests Against Forgetting; David Williams 2. Sprawled, Distracted and Trembling: Performing L.A.; Sue-Ellen Case 3. Performing Paris: an Ecography of Meridians and Atmospheres; Carl Lavery 4. Performing Chicago: Seven Demolitions; Matthew Goulish 5. Performing Cape Town: an Epidemiological Study in Three Acts; Mark Fleishman and Jay Pather 6. Performing Cardiff: Six Approaches to a City and its Performance Pasts; Mike Pearson and Heike Roms PART II: URBAN LANDS 7. Performing Sydney: Inhabiting the Edge; Gay McAuley 8. Performing Toronto: Enacting Creative Labour in the Neoliberal City; Laura Levin 9. Performing Singapore: City/State; Paul Rae 10. Performing Belgrade: Itineraries of Belonging; Silvija Jestrovic 11. Performing Jerusalem: Religious, Historical, Ideological and Political Scenarios  and Some Personal Ones; Freddie Rokem 12. Performing Bogot?: Memories of an Urban Bombing; Mar?a Estrada-Fuentes IndexSue-Ellen Case University of California, Los Angeles, USAMar?a Estrada-Fuentes, University of Warwick, UKMark Fleishman, University of Cape Town, South AfricaMatthew Goulish, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USASilvija Jestrovic, University of Warwick, UKCarl Lavery, University of Glasgow, UKLaura Levin, York University, CanadaGay McAuley, University of Sydney, AustraliaJay Pather, University of Cape Town, South AfricaMike Pearson, Aberystwyth University, UKPaul Rae, University of Melbourne, AustraliaFreddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University, IsraelHeike Roms, Aberystwyth University, UKDavid Williams, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK