Phillips-Hutton, A orcid.org/0000-0001-9501-9529 (2020) Repertoires of remembrance: violence, commemoration and the performing arts. Journal of the British Academy, 8 (s3). pp. 51-71. ISSN 2052-7217
Abstract
This essay argues for a reconsideration of performative and embodied memory in illuminating how the performing arts – and music in particular – offer a unique means of embodying knowledge and of performing memories of violence. Incorporating insights from these fields provides an alternative approach to the questions of who, what, and for how long we should remember. After establishing a conceptual framework for the mobilisation of rituals of artistic practice and cultural memory, this article discusses examples from a range of cultures and performance practices to explore aesthetic and ethical characteristics of performative memorials. It concludes that performance’s self-consciously ephemeral, temporal, and iterative character means performative memorials can refocus the commemorative impulse away from the past by shifting our collective attention from the question of what should we remember to the question of what should we remember for?
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The author(s) 2020. This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Commemoration, embodiment, ethics, music, performance, performing arts, repertoire, violence |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 May 2023 15:50 |
Last Modified: | 26 May 2023 15:52 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | British Academy |
Identification Number: | 10.5871/jba/008s3.051 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:194954 |