University Press of New England

(T)he book turns out to be great fun, with excellent and recognizable analyses of the three different audience zones, the semiotics of where you put your backstage pass, the different rhetorical... — The Guardian More…

Yang's view is that music today is vibrant and relevant, although its face is different from that of the past--a provocative stance that should provide fodder for interesting discussions by... — Choice More…

[Small] forces the reader to grasp the reality that different audiences and social factors obligate variant approaches, and he concludes with an aesthetic orientation of universal validity .... — Choice More…

This volume goes beyond recent discussions of historical performance . . . like many performance studies [it] challenges disciplinary boundaries. More important, it challenges performance studies... — Choice More…