Tracy Stephenson Shaffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy Stephenson Shaffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy Stephenson |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaffer |
| SIGNATURE | SHAFFER T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The serious business of performance practice
This essay provides a performance criticism of Melanie Kitchens O’Meara’s Is She Mad, Or Does She Joke?. I argue that performance practice is serious business because it is a scholarly act and a valuable pedagogical tool
The place of performance in performance studies
This essay calls attention to the value of conspicuous aesthetic performance in performance studies. It provides a review of past and current practice and offers suggestions for increasing both the practice of performance and publications about that practice. Further, it recognizes the labor of those devoted to conspicuous aesthetic performance. Ultimately, it argues for the centrality of conspicuous aesthetic performance in performance studies a…
Comic performativities
Comic performativities: identity, internet outrage, and the aesthetics of communication." Text and Performance Quarterly, 39(1), pp. 89–90
Performance tells it slant
The National Communication Association [NCA], the professional organization that sponsors TPQ, recently celebrated its 100th anniversary and, significantly, performance scholars have been influential in defining the academic discipline from its inception. Currently, these scholars call their work performance studies, a label that includes those interested in the “study, criticism, research, teaching, public awareness, and application of the artis…
The laboring bodies of performance in Sideshow
Performance
In the penultimate sentence of Performance, Ronald J. Pelias writes, “It would be fun to start again, start from the beginning of the alphabet, but give myself one rule: Do not make any entries und
My Journey to Performance Studies
In this essay, I offer my version of how I came to be a performance studies professor. Through several anecdotes, I focus on the teachers who guided and inspired me along the way
Performance as Practice
Performance as Practice." Text and Performance Quarterly, 34(1), pp. 102–103 Notes[1] The author prefers the abbreviation ELP over the expanded Everyday Life Performance. Based on current practice, Everyday Life Performance is too broad and does not connote the specific method
Music as Performance Method
This article answers Philip Auslander's call for theatre and performance scholars to take music seriously as an object of study. The study also extends that call by considering music as a performance method in experimental work. Specifically, the author offers an analysis of her own practice in a performance she created entitled 'The Life and Times of King Kong' as a way to continue this conversation. Drawing on popular notions of a film's score,…
Busted Flat in Baton Rouge
The Indeterminate Third Person in Busted Flat in Baton Rouge
Performing backpacking
Backpacking is a subculture of tourism often populated by young adults looking for a “rite of passage” between childhood and adulthood. Using performance as a method of inquiry, this essay explores this practice by tracing the author’s participation in and observation of backpacking in Europe in the summers of 2000 and 2001. Scholarship on tourism seems particularly invested in issues of authenticity, and current research argues that authenticity…
Performing backpacking
Backpacking is a subculture of tourism often populated by young adults looking for a “rite of passage” between childhood and adulthood. Using performance as a method of inquiry, this essay explores this practice by tracing the author’s participation in and observation of backpacking in Europe in the summers of 2000 and 2001. Scholarship on tourism seems particularly invested in issues of authenticity, and current research argues that authenticity…
The place of performance in performance studies
This essay calls attention to the value of conspicuous aesthetic performance in performance studies. It provides a review of past and current practice and offers suggestions for increasing both the practice of performance and publications about that practice. Further, it recognizes the labor of those devoted to conspicuous aesthetic performance. Ultimately, it argues for the centrality of conspicuous aesthetic performance in performance studies a…
Performance tells it slant
The National Communication Association [NCA], the professional organization that sponsors TPQ, recently celebrated its 100th anniversary and, significantly, performance scholars have been influential in defining the academic discipline from its inception. Currently, these scholars call their work performance studies, a label that includes those interested in the “study, criticism, research, teaching, public awareness, and application of the artis…
Performance
In the penultimate sentence of Performance, Ronald J. Pelias writes, “It would be fun to start again, start from the beginning of the alphabet, but give myself one rule: Do not make any entries und
Performance as Practice
Performance as Practice." Text and Performance Quarterly, 34(1), pp. 102–103 Notes[1] The author prefers the abbreviation ELP over the expanded Everyday Life Performance. Based on current practice, Everyday Life Performance is too broad and does not connote the specific method
The Indeterminate Third Person in Busted Flat in Baton Rouge
Music as Performance Method
This article answers Philip Auslander's call for theatre and performance scholars to take music seriously as an object of study. The study also extends that call by considering music as a performance method in experimental work. Specifically, the author offers an analysis of her own practice in a performance she created entitled 'The Life and Times of King Kong' as a way to continue this conversation. Drawing on popular notions of a film's score,…
Busted Flat in Baton Rouge
Performing backpacking
Backpacking is a subculture of tourism often populated by young adults looking for a “rite of passage” between childhood and adulthood. Using performance as a method of inquiry, this essay explores this practice by tracing the author’s participation in and observation of backpacking in Europe in the summers of 2000 and 2001. Scholarship on tourism seems particularly invested in issues of authenticity, and current research argues that authenticity…
Busted Flat in Baton Rouge
The Indeterminate Third Person in Busted Flat in Baton Rouge
Music as Performance Method
This article answers Philip Auslander's call for theatre and performance scholars to take music seriously as an object of study. The study also extends that call by considering music as a performance method in experimental work. Specifically, the author offers an analysis of her own practice in a performance she created entitled 'The Life and Times of King Kong' as a way to continue this conversation. Drawing on popular notions of a film's score,…
My Journey to Performance Studies
In this essay, I offer my version of how I came to be a performance studies professor. Through several anecdotes, I focus on the teachers who guided and inspired me along the way
Performance as Practice
Performance as Practice." Text and Performance Quarterly, 34(1), pp. 102–103 Notes[1] The author prefers the abbreviation ELP over the expanded Everyday Life Performance. Based on current practice, Everyday Life Performance is too broad and does not connote the specific method
Performance
In the penultimate sentence of Performance, Ronald J. Pelias writes, “It would be fun to start again, start from the beginning of the alphabet, but give myself one rule: Do not make any entries und
Performance tells it slant
The National Communication Association [NCA], the professional organization that sponsors TPQ, recently celebrated its 100th anniversary and, significantly, performance scholars have been influential in defining the academic discipline from its inception. Currently, these scholars call their work performance studies, a label that includes those interested in the “study, criticism, research, teaching, public awareness, and application of the artis…
The laboring bodies of performance in Sideshow
Comic performativities
Comic performativities: identity, internet outrage, and the aesthetics of communication." Text and Performance Quarterly, 39(1), pp. 89–90
The place of performance in performance studies
This essay calls attention to the value of conspicuous aesthetic performance in performance studies. It provides a review of past and current practice and offers suggestions for increasing both the practice of performance and publications about that practice. Further, it recognizes the labor of those devoted to conspicuous aesthetic performance. Ultimately, it argues for the centrality of conspicuous aesthetic performance in performance studies a…
The serious business of performance practice
This essay provides a performance criticism of Melanie Kitchens O’Meara’s Is She Mad, Or Does She Joke?. I argue that performance practice is serious business because it is a scholarly act and a valuable pedagogical tool
Art (11 works) · Visual arts (8 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Performance Practice (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works)