The Performer by Richard Sennett

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/83304 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Performer Author: Richard Sennett Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: mp3 Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins Release date: 04-30-24 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Art of Storytelling Publisher's Summary: The book draws on history and sociology, and more personally on the author's early career as a professional cellist, as well as on his later work as a city planner and social thinker. It traces the evolution of performing spaces in the city; the emergence of actors, musicians, and dancers as independent artists; the inequality between performer and spectator; the uneasy relations between artistic creation and social and religious ritual; the uses and abuses of acting by politicians. The Janus-faced art of performing is both destructive and civilizing.