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London Surprise Major

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2023

Anna Aslanyan
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Abstract

Bell ringing in Britain has featured in sociohistorical studies, but it has never been analyzed in detail as a variety of mass spectacle. The practice takes especially interesting forms in London, a city where the ringing of church bells has been part of everyday life for centuries. Grounded in physics, economics, and human geography, ringing is a unique kind of immersive site-specific performance, whose significance is best understood through pivoting to topography and history.

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TDR , Volume 67 , Issue 4 , December 2023 , pp. 167 - 180
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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