Beyond the Boundaries
Author | : Theodore Shank |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780472085354 |
An update of this popular history of experimental American theater
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Author | : Theodore Shank |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780472085354 |
An update of this popular history of experimental American theater
Author | : Vessela S. Warner |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2020-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1609386787 |
Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former communist countries. The essays focus on companies and artists that radically changed the language and organization of theatre in the countries formerly known as the Eastern European bloc. This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well. Contributors: Dennis Barnett, Dennis C. Beck, Violeta Decheva, Luule Epner, John Freedman, Barry Freeman, Margarita Kompelmakher, Jaak Rahesoo, Angelina Ros ̧ca, Ban ̧uta Rubess, Christopher Silsby, Andrea Tompa, S. E. Wilmer
Author | : Theodore Shank |
Publisher | : Palgrave |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780333288832 |
Author | : Don B. Wilmeth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2007-09-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521835380 |
New and updated encyclopedic guide to American theatre, from its earliest history to the present.
Author | : Nancy Yunhwa Rao |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2017-01-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0252099001 |
Awards: Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019 Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2019 The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre–World War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities Drawing on a wealth of new Chinese- and English-language research, Nancy Yunhwa Rao tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. Rao unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. But she also braids a captivating and complex history from elements outside the opera house walls: the impact of government immigration policy; how a theater influenced a Chinatown's sense of cultural self; the dissemination of Chinese opera music via recording and print materials; and the role of Chinese American business in sustaining theatrical institutions. The result is a work that strips the veneer of exoticism from Chinese opera, placing it firmly within the bounds of American music and a profoundly American experience.
Author | : Don B. Wilmeth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521669597 |
Volume three of a unique three-volume history covering all aspects of American theatre.
Author | : Kathleen Cioffi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134374453 |
The complex nature of the relationship between theatre and politics is explored in this study of the Polish theatre scene. It traces the development of the alternative theatre movement from its origins, in the 1950s, through to its decline in the late 1980s.
Author | : Lloyd Suh |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0822239906 |
Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman.
Author | : Timothy Miller |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1995-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438413114 |
This is a single-volume source of reliable information on the most important alternative religions, covering for each such essentials as history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status. The chapters of the book were written by experts who study the movements they have written about.
Author | : Raymond Knapp |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0691186200 |
The American musical has achieved and maintained relevance to more people in America than any other performance-based art. This thoughtful history of the genre, intended for readers of all stripes, offers probing discussions of how American musicals, especially through their musical numbers, advance themes related to American national identity. Written by a musicologist and supported by a wealth of illustrative audio examples (on the book's website), the book examines key historical antecedents to the musical, including the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, nineteenth and early twentieth-century American burlesque and vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley, and other song types. It then proceeds thematically, focusing primarily on fifteen mainstream shows from the twentieth century, with discussions of such notable productions as Show Boat (1927), Porgy and Bess (1935), Oklahoma! (1943), West Side Story (1957), Hair (1967), Pacific Overtures (1976), and Assassins (1991). The shows are grouped according to their treatment of themes that include defining America, mythologies, counter-mythologies, race and ethnicity, dealing with World War II, and exoticism. Each chapter concludes with a brief consideration of available scholarship on related subjects; an extensive appendix provides information on each show discussed, including plot summaries and song lists, and a listing of important films, videos, audio recordings, published scores, and libretti associated with each musical.