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Culture, Identity and Intense Performativity: Being in the Zone book cover

1st Edition

Culture, Identity and Intense Performativity Being in the Zone

Edited By Tim Jordan, Brigid McClure, Kath Woodward Copyright 2017
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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‘Being in the zone' means performing in a distinctive, unusual, pleasurable and highly competent way at something you already regularly do: dancing or playing a viola, computer programming, tennis and much more. What makes the zone special? This volume offers groundbreaking research that brings sociological and cultural studies to bear on the idea of being in the zone. There is original research... Read more

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)




    6. 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)


Biography



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.

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