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Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan
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Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Zero Jigen's pre-expressive utopian body: ritual theory and urban transformation 2. Butoh cine dance and the remediated sixties 3. Singing Yokoo Tadanori: Ichiyanagi Toshi, The City and the Aesthetics of Listening 4. Performing Revolution at Shinjuku Plaza 5. The Osaka Exposition: Bodies and the impossible Utopia 6. Memory and city: Port B and the Tokyo Olympics Closing: Transforming everydayness Notes Bibliography

About the Author

Peter Eckersall teaches Theatre Studies in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. Recent publications include Kawamura Takeshi's Nippon Wars and Other Plays and Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era (with Denise Varney, Barbara Hatley and Chris Hudson). He is a specialist of contemporary performance and a dramaturgy.

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'A fresh, innovative and rigorous work on a largely unexplored aspect of Japanese performance and urban space in the 1960s, this book will appeal to scholars and students from across several disciplinary boundaries.' - Alan Cummings, SOAS University of London, UK

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