QUÉ ES PERFORMANCE? Explorando el desarrollo de los estudios de performance

The term performance has beenused in lots of different fields so itsmeaning has become ambiguous andabstract. In this paper we pretend toexplain how and why this conceptbecame so wide, for this purpose wewill overhaul its most traditionalmeaning and its developmentthroughout history. Not forgetting theuse of the term into academic research.This work it is going to be framedspecifically in the field of music, as inother arts its meaning has beendeveloped simultaneously although ithas various shades.