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Performance in America
Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
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David Román
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Funded by:
Paula Court
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English
Published/Copyright:
2005
About this book
Argues for the centrality of theater and performance in the American national imaginary.
Author / Editor information
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 coeditor of O Solo Homo: The New Queer 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 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
“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
“Román makes a persuasive case for the centrality of performance in contemporary U.S. culture. . . . In its analyses, tone, and scope, this book succeeds in achieving what its subjects accomplish: a critical reassessment of performance in America.”
-- Debora Paredez Theatre Research International
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Here and Now
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1. Not About aids
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2. Visa Denied: Chay Yew’s Theatre of Immigration and the Performance of Asian American History
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3. Latino Genealogies: Broadway and Beyond— the Case of John Leguizamo
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4. Archival Drag; or, the Afterlife of Performance
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5. Cabaret as Cultural History: Popular Song and Public Performance in America
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6. Tragedy and the Performing Arts in theWake of September 11, 2001
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Afterword: The Time of Your Life
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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November 23, 2005
eBook ISBN:
9780822387442
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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376
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86 b&w photos
