Music

Theatrical Heritage

Challenges and Opportunities

Bruno Forment, Christel Stalpaert (eds)

The theatrical past reactivated by scholars and artists Despite eye-opening discoveries, exhibitions, and performances, many valuable artefacts and documents of the performing arts continue to linger in oblivion. How do these sources affect our understanding and appreciation of the theatrical past? Which challenges and opportunities arise from their reuse in modern contexts, museal and non-museal? Theatrical Heritage addresses these and related issues from a broad perspective. In accessible essays written by theatre and music scholars, performers, directors, conservators, and administrators from Europe and the usa, new methods are advanced to reactivate the theatrical past.

Contributors Michael Burden (Oxford University / New College), Margaret Butler (University of Florida), Thomas Crombez (Royal Academy of Fine Arts / Sint Lucas Antwerpen), Timothy De Paepe (University of Antwerp), Maarten De Pourcq (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Christine Fischer (Kunst Universität Graz / Swiss ForumMusikDiversität), Raphaèle Fleury (Paris-Sorbonne University), Bruno Forment (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Ghent University), Nick Hunt (Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance), Riemer Knoop (Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam), Jerome Maeckelbergh (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp), Frank Peeters (University of Antwerp), John A. Rice (freelance writer and teacher), Christel Stalpaert (Ghent University), Staf Vos (Het Firmament), Jed Wentz (Leiden University).

Also of Interest

n Mass Theatre in Interwar Europe. Flanders and the Netherlands in an International Perspective Thomas Crombez, Luk Van den Dries (eds) € 49,50 / £44.00, isbn 978 90 5867 992 5, hardback, KADOC-Artes 15 n Music and the City: Musical Cultures and Urban Societies in the Southern Netherlands and Beyond, c. 1650–1800 Stefanie Beghein, Bruno Blondé, Eugeen Schreurs (eds) € 39,50 / £35.00, isbn 978 90 5867 955 0, paperback – also available as eBook (eisbn 978 94 6166 142 5) n (Dis)embodying Myths in Ancien Régime Opera: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Bruno Forment (ed.) € 29,50 / £26.00, isbn 978 90 5867 900 0 – also available as eBook (eisbn 978 94 6166 057 2) bruno forment is Postdoctoral Fellow (FWO) at Ghent University and Lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. christel stalpaert is Professor of Theatre Studies at Ghent University.

n € 39,50 / £35.00

n isbn 978 94 6270 023 9 n April 2015 n Paperback, 17 x 23 cm n Illustrated in colour and b&w n ca. 240 pp. n English