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DIVHow theatrical representations of the U.S. have shaped national identity /div
Author : J. Ellen Gainor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472087921
DIVHow theatrical representations of the U.S. have shaped national identity /div
Author : Dr Heath A Diehl
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1472442377
Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses on the material, lived experience of addiction and the ways in which it is shaped by a ‘metaphor of waste’, from the manner in which people describe the addict, the experience of inebriation or his or her systematic exclusion from various aspects of American culture. It will appeal to scholars of popular culture, cultural and media studies, performance studies, sociology and American culture.
Author : David Román
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2005-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822387441
Performance in America demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.S. culture. Looking at a series of specific performances mounted between 1994 and 2004, well-known performance studies scholar David Román challenges the belief that theatre, dance, and live music are marginal art forms in the United States. He describes the crucial role that the performing arts play in local, regional, and national communities, emphasizing the power of live performance, particularly its immediacy and capacity to create a dialogue between artists and audiences. Román draws attention to the ways that the performing arts provide unique perspectives on many of the most pressing concerns within American studies: questions about history and politics, citizenship and society, and culture and nation. The performances that Román analyzes range from localized community-based arts events to full-scale Broadway productions and from the controversial works of established artists such as Tony Kushner to those of emerging artists. Román considers dances produced by the choreographers Bill T. Jones and Neil Greenberg in the mid-1990s as new aids treatments became available and the aids crisis was reconfigured; a production of the Asian American playwright Chay Yew’s A Beautiful Country in a high-school auditorium in Los Angeles’s Chinatown; and Latino performer John Leguizamo’s one-man Broadway show Freak. He examines the revival of theatrical legacies by female impersonators and the resurgence of cabaret in New York City. Román also looks at how the performing arts have responded to 9/11, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and the second war in Iraq. Including more than eighty illustrations, Performance in America highlights the dynamic relationships among performance, history, and contemporary culture through which the past is revisited and the future reimagined.
Author : Barbara Thornbury
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0472029282
America’s Japan and Japan’s Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the United States since the 1950s. Soon after World War II, visits by Japanese performing artists to the United States emerged as a significant category of American cultural-exchange initiatives aimed at helping establish and build friendly ties with Japan. Barbara E. Thornbury explores how “Japan” and “Japanese culture” have been constructed, reconstructed, and transformed in response to the hundreds of productions that have taken place over the past sixty years in New York, the main entry point and defining cultural nexus in the United States for the global touring market in the performing arts. The author’s transdisciplinary approach makes the book appealing to those in the performing arts studies, Japanese studies, and cultural studies.
Author : Steven Otfinoski
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 143812855X
Provides short biographies of African Americans who have contributed to the performing arts.
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Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Severino J. Albuquerque
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299300641
These essays on Brazilian performance culture comprise the first English-language book to study the varied manifestations of performance in and beyond Brazil, from carnival and capoeira to gender acts, curatorial practice, and political protest.
Author : Megan Sanborn Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1135967903
In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses specifically on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas. These melodramas illustrated a particularly religious world-view that dominated American life and promoted the sexually conservative ideals of the cult of true womanhood. They also examined the limits of honorable violence, and suggested the whiteness of national ethnicity. In investigating the relationship between theatre, popular literature, political rhetoric, and religious fervor, Megan Sanborn Jones reveals how anti-Mormon melodramas created a space for audiences to imagine a unified American identity.
Author : Shannon Rose Riley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137592117
In this book, Shannon Rose Riley provides a critically rich investigation of representations of Cuba and Haiti in US culture in order to analyze their significance not only to the emergence of empire but especially to the reconfiguration of US racial structures along increasingly biracial lines. Based on impressive research and with extensive analysis of various textual and performance forms including a largely unique set of skits, plays, songs, cultural performances and other popular amusements, Riley shows that Cuba and Haiti were particularly meaningful to the ways that people in the US re-imagined themselves as black or white and that racial positions were renegotiated through what she calls acts of palimpsest: marking and unmarking, racing and erasing difference. Riley’s book demands a reassessment of the importance of the occupations of Cuba and Haiti to US culture, challenging conventional understandings of performance, empire, and race at the turn of the twentieth century.
Author : Patricia A. Ybarra
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Mexican drama
ISBN : 0472116797
An unprecedented reading of Mexican history through the lens of performance