Culture, Identity and Intense Performativity: Being in the Zone

ISBN-13: 9780367875114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 182 str.

Tim Jordan; Brigid McClure; Kath Woodward

Opis

Being in the Zone shows how the experience of peak performance is one riddled with cultural and social factors. Covering a wide range of examples, from sport to music to work, and drawing on the most recent empirical and theoretical work, this is a book that will establish the new area of cultural and social research into ‘being in the zone’ and

Spis treści

Part 1: The Social and Cultural Inside the Zone

1. Introduction, (B McClure, Tim Jordan and Kath Woodward)











2. Being in the Zone and Vital Subjectivity: On the Liminal Sources of Sport and Art, (Paul Stenner)











3. Failure, Routine and the Ordinary in the Zone, (Tim Jordan)











4. The Pleasures and Pains in the Sporting Zone: An Embodied Perspective, (Ian Wellard and Angela Pickard)











5. Learning to Sing: Defamiliarizing the Zone, (Nick Wilson)







Part Two: The Zone in the Social and Cultural












6. In the Zone or in the Shit: (Extra)Ordinary Effects at Work, (Lynne Pettinger)











7. Step into the Zone: Career Dancers, Cultural Work and Intensity, (Heidi Ashton and Mark Banks)











8. Being in the Moment: Heightened Experiences and Transformative Relations in Social Salsa Dancing, (B McClure)











9. Being in the Zone and the Emergence of Musical Instruments’ Aesthetics: Auto-Ethnographic Experiences in Viola Playing, (Pedro dos Santos Boia)











10. Jazz Improvisation and Peak Performance: Playing in the Zone, (Garry Hagberg)











11. Moving not Staying Still in Time to the Zone, (Kath Woodward)

O autorze

Tim Jordan is Professor of Digital Cultures and Head of School of Media, Film and Music at Sussex University.

Brigid McClure is an associate researcher with the Department for Culture, Media & Creative Industries at King's College London, with a substantive post as Assistant Chief Operating Officer for the five Arts & Sciences faculties.

Kath Woodward is a Professor of Sociology at the Open University.