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Opening Acts offers new, rigorous ways tanalyze communication and culture through performance It offers cutting edge readings of everyday life, space, history, and intersections of all three, using a critical performance-based approach Key features: - familiarizes readers with the core elements and commitments of performance-based analysis; - links performance-based analysis ttheoretical and analytical perspectives in communication and cultural studies; - provides engaging examples of how tuse performance as a critical tool topen up communication and culture; - combines the best features of twclassroom formats Like a reader, it offers a menu of diverse approaches tperformance-based analysis Like a monograph, these approaches are organized inta coherent conceptual and pedagogical frame; - explicitly links developments in performance theory and methodology tcurrent theories and methodologies in communication and cultural studies; - a topical organization mirrors those theoretical and methodological concerns most likely tengage students and scholars: how tanalyze practices of everyday life, history, space, and intersections of all three
