ACT research seminar: Three New Works by ACT Staff

A Holocaust Cabaret:  Re-making Theatre from a Jewish Ghetto (Book)

Lisa Peschel, University of York

A Holocaust Cabaret:  Re-making Theatre from a Jewish Ghetto, edited by Lisa Peschel, features scripts and essays by teams of collaborators in Australia and South Africa. Both teams were working from the archival traces of a satirical cabaret called Prinz Bettliegend (The Bedridden Prince), written and performed by prisoners in the Second World War Jewish ghetto at Terezín (in German, Theresienstadt). My presentation will focus on the songs -- the Terezin lyrics that the prisoners set to 1930s jazz melodies -- that not only brought the past into our present, but put that past into dialogue with deeply felt local and contemporary concerns.

Hymns and Constructions of Race: Mobility, Agency, De/Coloniality (Book)

Philip Burnett, University of York

Hymns and Constructions of Race: Mobility, Agency, De/Coloniality, edited by Philip Burnett (York) and Erin Johnson-Williams (Southampton) brings together a global group of scholars whose contributions explore how the hymn, historically and today, has reinforced, negotiated, and resisted constructions of race. The volume will be relevant for those interested in religion, music, race and postcolonialism.

Categorisation as a framework to understand cultural consumption (Journal Article)

Samuel Haddad-Bacry, University of York

We live in an era of cultural abundance. Paradoxically, cultural participation in France showcases latent social disparities and cultural consumption is not as diverse as it could be. We address these issues through a dozen semi-structured interviews with French consumers. Categorisation enables consumers to solidify the abundant liquidity of cultural goods in the digital era. Determined socially, psychologically and by the marketplace, categories allows consumers to better anticipate the cultural experience, and could therefore explain today's paradoxes of cultural consumption.

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