PRFM3605 - Cross-Cultural and Hybrid Performance

Semester 2, 2013  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Amanda Card
Phone: +61 2 9351 8253
Email: amanda.card@sydney.edu.au

Description

This unit will analyse the development of cross-cultural and hybrid performance in Australia, Britain and the United States. Concentrating on a range of Indigenous and non-indigenous performance practices - football mascots, contemporary dance, pop music and text based theatre - we will utilise postcolonial theories, as applied to performance, to explore diverse understandings of innovation and appropriation, ownership and copyright in colonial and post-colonial societies since the 1950s.

Assessments

1x1500wd tutorial paper (40%), 1x3000wd essay (60%)

Textbooks

Selected readings available through the University Copy Centre

Classes

1x3-hr seminar/week

Prerequisites

(PRFM2601 and PRFM2602) or (PRFM2001 and PRFM2002)

Prohibitions

PRFM3023, PRFM3028

Please Note: This timetable is a draft timetable and subject to change.

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