Description
Book SynopsisA 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 ReviewCohen-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 ContentsList 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
