Performing America

Author : J. Ellen Gainor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472087921
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing America written by J. Ellen Gainor and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVHow theatrical representations of the U.S. have shaped national identity /div

Author : Dr Heath A Diehl
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472442377
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasted: Performing Addiction in America written by Dr Heath A Diehl and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Eric Dyson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250135982
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Race written by Michael Eric Dyson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop "Entertaining Race is a splendid way to spend quality time reading one of the most remarkable thinkers in America today." —Speaker Nancy Pelosi "To read Entertaining Race is to encounter the life-long vocation of a teacher who preaches, a preacher who teaches and an activist who cannot rest until all are set free." —Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic pursuits. Entertaining Race is a testament to Dyson’s consistent celebration of the outsized impact of African American culture and politics on this country. Black people were forced to entertain white people in slavery, have been forced to entertain the idea of race from the start, and must find entertaining ways to make race an object of national conversation. Dyson’s career embodies these and other ways of performing Blackness, and in these pages, ranging from 1991 to the present, he entertains race with his pen, voice and body, and occasionally, alongside luminaries like Cornel West, David Blight, Ibram X. Kendi, Master P, MC Lyte, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alicia Garza, John McWhorter, and Jordan Peterson. Most of this work will be new to readers, a fresh light for many of his long-time fans and an inspiring introduction for newcomers. Entertaining Race offers a compelling vision from the mind and heart of one of America’s most important and enduring voices.

Author : Barbara Thornbury
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472029282
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts written by Barbara Thornbury and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 143812855X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Americans in the Performing Arts written by Steven Otfinoski and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides short biographies of African Americans who have contributed to the performing arts.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical America written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Severino J. Albuquerque
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299300641
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Brazil written by Severino J. Albuquerque and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2015 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1135967903
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama written by Megan Sanborn Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Patricia A. Ybarra
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472116797
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Conquest written by Patricia A. Ybarra and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented reading of Mexican history through the lens of performance

Author : Susan C. Haedicke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067602
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Democracy written by Susan C. Haedicke and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world