Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity

By Adrian Curtin

Book Overview

Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349459062
• ISBN13: 9781349459063
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"