Resumo

A performance-como-pesquisa e a performance baseada em pesquisa são alvos de críticas constantes na academia. Autores como Clarke, Cook e Daniel Leech-Wilkinson integram um grupo muito proeminente de pesquisadores que abordam esse assunto. Cook se destaca com o livro Beyond the Score: Music as Performance (livro que será analisado durante este texto),no qual realiza críticas duras e, por vezes, precipitadas, à performance da música de concerto, especialmente da que ele chama de ‘performance modernista’. Por meio dele é possível conhecer outros autores de seu grupo que apoiam ideias similares. Acontece que Cook, com seu tom, parece esperar que seus leitores partam de conhecimentos tácitos acerca da realidade atual da performance musical e dos estudos em performance. A análise feita aqui, principalmente deste livro, vem para estabelecer um contraponto e para tentar conter algumas de suas ideias depreciativas sobre a pesquisa em performance, a performance musical e outros campos que permeiam a ramificação dos estudos em performance. [resumo elaborado pelos tradutores]

The new state of play in Performance Studies

Performance-as-research and research-based performance are the target of constant criticism in the scholarship, Authors such as Clarke, Cook and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson are part of a very prominent group of researchers that address this subject. Cook stands out with the book Beyond the Score: Music as Performance (main book that will be analysed during the text), in which he conducts harsh and, at times, hasty criticisms on the performance of Western art music, especially of something he calls ‘Modernist’ performance. Through his work, it is possible to reach other authors of his group who support similar ideas. It turns out that Cook, with his tone, seems to expect his readers to start from some tacit knowledge about the current reality of music performance and performance studies. The analysis made here, mainly of this book, comes to balance the discussion and to try to contain some of his derogatory ideas about performance research, musical performance and other fields that permeate the branch of performance studies. [abstract provided by the translators]