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Dealing with the decomposition of cultural myths, these essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Conferencing About the Unnatural
1. Introducing UNNATURAL ACTS, 1997 Susan Leigh Foster
2. ACTING UNNATURAL:Interpreting Body Art Amelia Jones
3. Listening to Local Practices: Performance and Identity Politics in Riverside, California Deborah Wong

Part 2. Contesting White Spaces
4. Black Noise / White Mastery Ronald Radano
5. Like a Weed in a Vacant Lot: The Black Artists Group in St. Louis George Lipsitz
6. Yayoi Kusama's Body of Art Kristine C. Kuramitsu
7. "Oh, You Can't Just Let a Man Walk Over You":
Staging Threepenny Opera in Singapore Sue-Ellen Case

Part 3. Acting Manly
8. The Britten Era Philip Brett
9. A Question of Balls: The Sexual Politics of Argentine Soccer Jeffrey Tobin
10. Music at Home, Politics Afar Timothy D. Taylor

Part 4. Talking Vulvas and Other Body Parts
11. Looking Like a Lesbian: Yvonne Rainer's Theory of Probability Catherine Lord
12. Structure, Size, and Play: The Case of the Talking Vulva B.J. Wray

Part 5. De-composing the Unnatural
13. Decomposition Elizabeth Wood

Notes on Contributors
Index

Decomposition PostDisciplinary Performance

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/06/2000
      ISBN13: 9780253213747, 978-0253213747
      ISBN10: 0253213746
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Dealing with the decomposition of cultural myths, these essays move from the local to the global, from history to sport, from body parts to stage productions, and from race relations to global politics.

      Table of Contents

      Part 1. Conferencing About the Unnatural
      1. Introducing UNNATURAL ACTS, 1997 Susan Leigh Foster
      2. ACTING UNNATURAL:Interpreting Body Art Amelia Jones
      3. Listening to Local Practices: Performance and Identity Politics in Riverside, California Deborah Wong

      Part 2. Contesting White Spaces
      4. Black Noise / White Mastery Ronald Radano
      5. Like a Weed in a Vacant Lot: The Black Artists Group in St. Louis George Lipsitz
      6. Yayoi Kusama's Body of Art Kristine C. Kuramitsu
      7. "Oh, You Can't Just Let a Man Walk Over You":
      Staging Threepenny Opera in Singapore Sue-Ellen Case

      Part 3. Acting Manly
      8. The Britten Era Philip Brett
      9. A Question of Balls: The Sexual Politics of Argentine Soccer Jeffrey Tobin
      10. Music at Home, Politics Afar Timothy D. Taylor

      Part 4. Talking Vulvas and Other Body Parts
      11. Looking Like a Lesbian: Yvonne Rainer's Theory of Probability Catherine Lord
      12. Structure, Size, and Play: The Case of the Talking Vulva B.J. Wray

      Part 5. De-composing the Unnatural
      13. Decomposition Elizabeth Wood

      Notes on Contributors
      Index

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