IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 749: The Texture of Performance: A Material-Cultural Approach to the Performance of Old Norse Poetry
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Old Norse Poetry in Performance |
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| Organiser: | Annemarie Ferreira, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | William Brockbank, Jesus College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 749-a | Performance and Legitimacy: Towards a Methodology for Practice-Based Research in Early Medieval Literary Scholarship (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Performance Arts - General, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 749-b | Resonating Recitals: The Archaeoacoustics of Timber Halls in Early Medieval Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Performance Arts - General |
| Abstract | This session seeks to employ the elastic concept of 'material' as a central theme through which speakers may draw together two distinct approaches to research surrounding Old Norse poetic performance practice, these being 'performance-led' and 'performance-based' respectively. Papers will both examine the material surroundings of performance (such as location and costume) in investigating the role that such materials play in performance contexts, and examine performance itself as material in exploring, for example, vocal acoustics and physical movement in re-imagined 'performance-scapes'. This holistic, material-centred approach contributes to a deeper understanding of subjects as varied as Viking Age architecture and ritual psychology. |