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Performance in America – Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

Autor David Román
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 noi 2005
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 that choreographers Bill T. Jones and Neil Greenberg produced in the mid-1990s as new AIDS treatments became available and the AIDS crisis was reconfigured; a production of the Asian American playwright Chaw 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 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 re-imagined.David Román is Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS and a co-editor of O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822336631
ISBN-10: 0822336634
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 86 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
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“In a work of immediate political relevance and lasting theoretical importance, David Román forcefully establishes live performance at the center of America’s cultural life, showing how its unique capacity to mobilize ‘provisional collectivities’ in the here and now allows it to express and inform crucial national debates. Román’s brilliant readings of various undervalued genres of popular performance are themselves a tour-de-force of critical performance, teaching us how to engage the vast ‘embodied archive’ in which American publics and counter-publics understand themselves.”—Una Chaudhuri, Professor of English and Drama, New York University“Coming together to lift a celebratory glass to their peculiarities, as if they have suddenly found themselves together again in Nick’s Pacific Street Bar from Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life (1939), the carefully assembled guests of David Román’s Performance in America add up to an improbable but exhilarating ensemble. Anyone who can make Elaine Stritch feel right at home at a party with the ghost of Sarah Siddons will show you the time of your life, and Román is that kind of host, entertaining the divas of stage, screen, dance, and cabaret while cordially welcoming his readers. RSVP.”—Joseph Roach, author of Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance

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"Coming together to lift a celebratory glass to their peculiarities, as if they have suddenly found themselves together again in Nick's Pacific Street bar from Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life "(1939), the carefully assembled guests of David Roman's "Performance in America "add up to an improbable but exhilarating ensemble. Anyone who can make Elaine Stritch feel right at home at a party with the ghost of Sarah Siddons will show you the time of your life, and Roman is that kind of host, entertaining the divas of stage, screen, dance, and cabaret while cordially welcoming his readers. rsvp."--Joseph Roach, author of "Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance"

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Argues for the centrality of theatre and performance in the American national imaginary