Joseph Roach

Cities of the Dead

Circum-Atlantic Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Takes a look at the continuum of intercultural exchange that reinvents, recreates, and restores history. Complemented with fifty-five illustrations, including photos of Mardi Gras Indians, this work employs a study of the culture. It explores cultural connections over place and time, showing through examples how performance revises the past.

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Produktdetails

• The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780231104616
• ISBN-10: 0231104618
• Artikelnr.: 21207837

Autorenporträt

Joseph Roach is professor of English at Tulane University. He is the author of The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting, which won the Barnard Hewitt Award, and coeditor, with Janeele Reinelt, of Critical Theory and Performance.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance
Circum-Atlantic Memory
Locations and Bearings
Materials and Methods
The Everlasting Club
Genealogies of Performance
2. Echoes in the Bone
The Effigy
Performing Origins
The Segregation of the Dead
Bodies of Law
Congo Sqaure
The King is Dead-Long Live the King!
3. Betterton's Funeral
"Sticks and Rags": The Celebrity as Effigy
Vortices of Behavior
The Life of Betterton: Talking with the Dad
Canonical Memory and Theatrical Nationhood
The Pinacotheca BettertonaeanaL Bibliography of origin
White SKin, Black Masks
4. Feathered Peoples
The Accursed Share: Abundance, Reproduction, and Sacrifice
Condolence Councils and the Great Peace
Windsor Forest Dimplomacy