The Signifying Body
Reaction and Resistance in Postmodern Dance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4797353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Foster (0000-0002-6338-8597), Susan Leigh Foster (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44 |
| Publication date | 1985-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3207184 |
| OpenAlex | W2318260325 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
For Rainer, the significance of Cage's contribution to art has nothing to do with allowing viewers to comprehend the excellence of as Cage himself suggests. Instead, Rainer heralds Cage's work because it undermines the determinate and hierarchical organization of meaning in the world of art and in the world, and thereby provides techniques for assessing the ideological functioning of the message, You are leading an excellent life, as one message among many. In Rainer's estimation, Cage's systematic denial of any relationship between sound and meaning clears the way for, but does not, in and of itself, create a new avant-garde in art. Cage's work brings into sharp relief the conventions by which music is made. It liberates music from any associations to narrative or emotional expressivity, and forces its audience to listen
Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Dance · Literature · Postmodernism · Resistance (ecology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2020 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |