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A survey of community-based performance in the US from its roots, to its flourishing during the 1960s, to present-day popular culture. It provides descriptions of performances and processes, first-person stories, and analysis and shows how ritualism reinforces community identification while aestheticism enables locals to transgress cultural norms.

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Cohen-Cruz's book is a highly effective local (and global) act in itself; paralleling the culturally democratic acts it is inspired by, Local Acts will in turn inspire others. -- Lucy R. Lippard * author of The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society *
Cohen-Cruz's book is a highly effective local (and global) act in itself; paralleling the culturally democratic acts it is inspired by, Local Acts will in turn inspire others. -- Lucy R. Lippard * author of The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society *

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Legacies
1. Early Antecedents
2. Motion of the Ocean
3. Establishing the Field
Part II. Principles
4. Between Ritual and Art
5. Criticism
Part III. Methodologies
6. Storytelling
7. Performance Structures
Closing: Boundary Jumping
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher Rutgers University Press
      Published 25 March 2005
      ISBN-13 9780813535500
      978-0813535500
      ISBN-10 0813535506
      Also in:
      History of art Performance art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A survey of community-based performance in the US from its roots, to its flourishing during the 1960s, to present-day popular culture. It provides descriptions of performances and processes, first-person stories, and analysis and shows how ritualism reinforces community identification while aestheticism enables locals to transgress cultural norms.

      Trade Review
      Cohen-Cruz's book is a highly effective local (and global) act in itself; paralleling the culturally democratic acts it is inspired by, Local Acts will in turn inspire others. -- Lucy R. Lippard * author of The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society *
      Cohen-Cruz's book is a highly effective local (and global) act in itself; paralleling the culturally democratic acts it is inspired by, Local Acts will in turn inspire others. -- Lucy R. Lippard * author of The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society *

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      Part I. Legacies
      1. Early Antecedents
      2. Motion of the Ocean
      3. Establishing the Field
      Part II. Principles
      4. Between Ritual and Art
      5. Criticism
      Part III. Methodologies
      6. Storytelling
      7. Performance Structures
      Closing: Boundary Jumping
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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