TDR (journal)
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TDR: The Drama Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal
focusing on performances in their social, economic, aesthetic, and political contexts. The journal covers dance
, theatre
, music
, performance art
, visual art, popular entertainment, media
, sports, rituals, and performance in politics and everyday life.
TDR:The Drama Review was founded in 1955 by Robert W. Corrigan as the "Carlton Drama Review" (so named because Corrigan was a faculty member at Carlton College). Corrigan took TDR with him to Tulane University
in 1957 where he renamed it the Tulane Drama Review. In 1962, Corrigan left Tulane for Carnegie Mellon University
and Richard Schechner
became editor. Schechner left Tulane for New York University
in 1967 taking TDR with him renaming it TDR: The Drama Review. Erika Munk succeeded Schechner as editor in 1969. Michael Kirby became editor in 1970. In 1986, Kirby resigned and Schechner resumed TDRs editorship. Schechner continues as editor as of 2010. TDR is owned by New York University and is published in hard copy and online by the MIT Press
.
From 2011 onwards, TDR's point of view will be expanded by means of a consortium of editors: Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf (Princeton University), Rebecca Schneider (Brown University), and William (Huizhu) Sun (Shanghai Theatre Academy). Schechner will remain as editor-in-chief and Mariellen Sandford will continue as Associate Editor. One issue a year will be edited by a consortium editor or editors. In addition, the consortium editors will meet with Schechner and Sandford on a regular basis to discuss TDR editorial policies.
It is the most widely cited scholarly journal dealing with performance.
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
focusing on performances in their social, economic, aesthetic, and political contexts. The journal covers dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
, theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, performance art
Performance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
, visual art, popular entertainment, media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
, sports, rituals, and performance in politics and everyday life.
TDR:The Drama Review was founded in 1955 by Robert W. Corrigan as the "Carlton Drama Review" (so named because Corrigan was a faculty member at Carlton College). Corrigan took TDR with him to Tulane University
Tulane University
Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...
in 1957 where he renamed it the Tulane Drama Review. In 1962, Corrigan left Tulane for Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
and Richard Schechner
Richard Schechner
Richard Schechner is Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University , editor of TDR: The Drama Review, and artistic director of East Coast Artists. His BA is from Cornell University , MA from the University of Iowa , and PhD from Tulane University...
became editor. Schechner left Tulane for New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
in 1967 taking TDR with him renaming it TDR: The Drama Review. Erika Munk succeeded Schechner as editor in 1969. Michael Kirby became editor in 1970. In 1986, Kirby resigned and Schechner resumed TDRs editorship. Schechner continues as editor as of 2010. TDR is owned by New York University and is published in hard copy and online by the MIT Press
MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts .-History:...
.
From 2011 onwards, TDR's point of view will be expanded by means of a consortium of editors: Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf (Princeton University), Rebecca Schneider (Brown University), and William (Huizhu) Sun (Shanghai Theatre Academy). Schechner will remain as editor-in-chief and Mariellen Sandford will continue as Associate Editor. One issue a year will be edited by a consortium editor or editors. In addition, the consortium editors will meet with Schechner and Sandford on a regular basis to discuss TDR editorial policies.
It is the most widely cited scholarly journal dealing with performance.