ABSTRACT
The long cultural moment that arose in the wake of 9/11 and the conflict in the Middle East has fostered a global wave of surveillance and counterinsurgency. Performance in a Militarized Culture explores the ways in which we experience this new status quo. Addressing the most commonplace of everyday interactions, from mobile phone calls to traffic cameras, this edited collection considers:
- How militarization appropriates and deploys performance techniques
- How performing arts practices can confront militarization
- The long and complex history of militarization
- How the war on terror has transformed into a values system that prioritizes the military
- The ways in which performance can be used to secure and maintain power across social strata
Performance in a Militarized Culture draws on performances from North, Central, and South America; Europe; the Middle East; and Asia to chronicle a range of experience: from those who live under a daily threat of terrorism, to others who live with a distant, imagined fear of such danger.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|87 pages
Sites of Conflict
chapter 1|19 pages
Mises-en-scène of Militarization
chapter 2|17 pages
Military Aid
chapter 3|19 pages
Sacred Children, Accursed Mothers
part II|55 pages
Militarized History and Memory
chapter 6|11 pages
How to do Things with Music Criticism
chapter 8|14 pages
Choreographies of Militarized Space
chapter 9|16 pages
Reviving the Tradition of the Battle Painting
part III|100 pages
Performing the Soldier
chapter 12|18 pages
Going Outside the Wire
chapter 13|18 pages
Challenging the Characterizations of Military Service
part IV|76 pages
The Militarization of the Everyday