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The Sixties, Center Stage

Author : James M. Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472122606
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Sixties, Center Stage written by James M. Harding and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sixties, Center Stage offers rich insights into the innovative and provocative political underpinnings of mainstream and popular performances in the 1960s. While much critical attention has been focused on experimental and radical theater of the period, the essays confirm that mainstream performances not only merit more scholarly attention than they have received, but through serious examination provide an important key to understanding the 1960s as a period. The introduction provides a broad overview of the social, political, and cultural contexts of artistic practices in mainstream theater from the mid-fifties to mid-seventies. Readers will find detailed examinations of the mainstream’s surprising attention to craft and innovation; to the rich exchange between European and American theatres; to the rise of regional theaters; and finally, to popular cultural performances that pushed the conceptual boundaries of mainstream institutions. The book looks afresh at productions of Hair, Cabaret, Raisin in the Sun, and Fiddler on the Roof, as well as German theater, and performances outside the Democratic National Convention of 1968.

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1960s

Author : Mike Sell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350153621
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1960s written by Mike Sell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Edward Albee: The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966) and Tiny Alice (1964 ); * Amiri Baraka: Dutchman (1964), The Slave (1964) and Slaveship (1967); * Adrienne Kennedy: Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964), Cities in Bezique (The Owl Answers and A Beast's Story, 1969), and A Rat's Mass (1967); * Jean-Claude van Itallie: American Hurrah (1966), The Serpent (1968) and War (1963).

The Queer Sixties

Author : Patricia Juliana Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136683615
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Queer Sixties written by Patricia Juliana Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s, this playful and powerful collection rescues the persistence of the queer imaginary.

The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945

Author : Julia Listengarten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108570267
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 written by Julia Listengarten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in spectatorship, and addresses the economic, social, and political challenges theatre artists have faced across cultural climates and geographical locations. Specifically, it explores artistic communities, collaborative practices, and theatre methodologies across mainstream, regional, and experimental theatre practices, forms, and expressions. As American theatre has embraced diversity in practice and representation, the volume examines the various creative voices, communities, and perspectives that prior to the 1940s was mostly excluded from the theatrical landscape. This diversity has led to changing dramaturgical and theatrical languages that take us in to the twenty-first century. These shifting perspectives and evolving forms of theatrical expressions paved the ground for contemporary American theatrical innovation.

Integrating the Sixties

Author : Brian Balogh
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271044659
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Integrating the Sixties written by Brian Balogh and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each essay in this volume sheds light on an important aspect of the decade&—actually a decade and half&—known as the Sixties. The Sixties are famous for the diverse social movements that threatened the essence of American public policy and mainstream society and changed those very entities in fundamental ways. These essays juxtapose the dramatic narratives of social movements, including civil rights, women's liberation, and antiwar protest, and the Cold War liberalism that spawned them. The contributors are two political scientists, several historians influenced by the social sciences, and the senior staff attorney for the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. Contributors are Brian Balogh, Hugh He&člo, Martha Derthick, Daryl Michael Scott, W. J. Rorabaugh, Martha F. Davis, and Louis Galambos.

Getting Saved from the Sixties

Author : Steven M. Tipton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625646992
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Getting Saved from the Sixties written by Steven M. Tipton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study explores the ways young Americans today understand right and wrong, how they think out their morality, and how they live it out. It describes contrasting ethical styles in the biblical, utilitarian, and personalist traditions of our culture; first, as they structured the conflict between mainstream and counterculture during the 1960s, and second, as they have shaped the transformation of these values in new religious movements since the early 1970s. Coupling descriptive ethics with interpretive sociology, this study pursues biography and moral dialogue with sixties youth who participated in a charismatic Christian sect, a Zen Buddhist meditation center, and a human potential organization (est). It shows the significance of these movements for the adherents' changing ideas of their own identity; their relationships, sex roles, courtship, and marriage; and their politics and vision of society. It analyzes the cultural logic and the social location of their ideas, which break down, recombine, and find renewal in the course of conversion.

Encyclopedia of the Sixties [2 volumes]

Author : Abbe A. Debolt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440801029
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Sixties [2 volumes] written by Abbe A. Debolt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedian Robin Williams said that if you remember the '60s, you weren't there. This encyclopedia documents the people, places, movements, and culture of that memorable decade for those who lived it and those who came after. Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture surveys the 1960s from January 1960 to December 1969. Nearly 500 entries cover everything from the British television cult classic The Avengers to the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. The two-volume work also includes biographies of artists, architects, authors, statesmen, military leaders, and cinematic stars, concentrating on what each individual accomplished during the 1960s, with brief postscripts of their lives beyond the period. There was much more to the Sixties than flower power and LSD, and the entries in this encyclopedia were compiled with an eye to providing a balanced view of the decade. Thus, unlike works that emphasize only the radical and revolutionary aspects of the period to the exclusion of everything else, these volumes include the political and cultural Right, taking a more academic than nostalgic approach and helping to fill a gap in the popular understanding of the era.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre – A Lasting Bridge Between Cultures

Author : Monica Cristini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000995577
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book La MaMa Experimental Theatre – A Lasting Bridge Between Cultures written by Monica Cristini and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the role of La MaMa Experimental Theatre within Avant-garde theater during the 1960s and 1970s. This study investigates the involvement of the Off-Off Broadway circuit in the Avant-garde experimentations both in the United States (New York specifically) and in Europe. This exploration shows the two-way influence – between Europe and the United States – testified by documents gathered in years of archival research. In this relevant artistic exchange, La MaMa (and Ellen Stewart as its founder and artistic director) emerges as a key element. La MaMa’s companies brought to Europe the American culture and the New York underground culture, while their members learnt European training techniques by attending workshops or taking part in the research of Eugenio Barba, Jerzy Grotowski, and Peter Brook, and brought their principles back to the United States. This book goes through a chronological path that presents some key cases of collaboration between the above-mentioned European masters and some La MaMa’s artists and companies: Tom O ’Horgan and La MaMa Repertory Troupe, the Open Theatre, Andrei Serban and The Great Jones Repertory Company, La MaMa Plexus. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theater and performance studies.

The Socialist Sixties

Author : Anne E. Gorsuch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253009499
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Socialist Sixties written by Anne E. Gorsuch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A very engaging collection of essays that adds much to an evolving literature on the social history of the Soviet Union and broader socialist societies.” —Choice The 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) are the springboard for exploring global interconnections and cultural cross-pollination between communist and capitalist countries and within the communist world. Themes explored include flows of people and media; the emergence of a flourishing youth culture; sharing of songs, films, and personal experiences through tourism and international festivals; and the rise of a socialist consumer culture and an esthetics of modernity. Challenging traditional categories of analysis and periodization, this book brings the sixties problematic to Soviet studies while introducing the socialist experience into scholarly conversations traditionally dominated by First World perspectives.

Jewhooing the Sixties

Author : David Kaufman
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683157
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Jewhooing the Sixties written by David Kaufman and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity

Restaging the Sixties

Author : James Martin Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472069545
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book Restaging the Sixties written by James Martin Harding and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic exploration of eight radical theater collectives from the 1960s and 70s, and their influence on contemporary performance

Going to College in the Sixties

Author : John R. Thelin
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421426811
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Going to College in the Sixties written by John R. Thelin and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in social and political history, with a scope that will appeal both to a new generation of scholars and to alumni of the era, this engaging book allows readers to consider "going to collegein both the past and the present.

The 60s Experience

Author : Edward P. Morgan
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566390149
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The 60s Experience written by Edward P. Morgan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s have yet to be adequately explained. After a decade of "Sixties -bashing" and mass media romanticizing, after a host of "second wave" books reexamining portions of the 1960s, there is a need to integrate the experience of those years into a larger framework of understanding. The Sixties Experience is a coherent and uniquely comprehensive assessment of the meaning of that time for the contemporary world. "Sixties movements," observes Edward P. Morgan, "were grounded in a democratic vision that is as compelling today as it was then: a belief that all people should be included as full members of society, that individuals become empowered through meaningful social participation, and that politics ought to be grounded on respect and compassion for the individual person." He argues that the most fundamental lesson taught by movement experience was that, outside of significant liberal achievements (such as civil rights legislation), this democratic vision would not, and could not, be realized within the American system. This realization thus led to a radical reassessment of basic American institutions. The Sixties Experience traces the evolution of this democratic vision and explores it through the concrete experiences of the civil rights and black power movements, the new student Left and the campus revolt, Vietnam and the antiwar movement, and the counterculture. Using first-person material, narrative accounts, and evocative excerpts from popular culture, he brings alive the vibrant energy and intense feelings generated by movement experiences He also traces the connection of the women's and ecology movements to the Sixties experience, outlining their contribution, and that of a "revitalized Left," to the enduring legacies of the 1960s. In its vivid narratives and comprehensive, accessible explanations, The Sixties Experience addresses two main audiences: the generation that came of age during the 1960s and continues to reformulate the meaning of its experience, and young people curious about the tumult, the commitment, and the importance of the Sixties. More broadly, in its critical perspective, the book responds to those who scapegoat and dismiss that decade; in his critical assessment of the movements themselves, Morgan counters those who romanticize the 1960s. Author note: Edward P. Morgan is Professor of Government at Lehigh University.

The Cambridge History of American Theatre

Author : Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669597
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of American Theatre written by Don B. Wilmeth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three of a unique three-volume history covering all aspects of American theatre.

Gaining Access

Author : John Mark Hansen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226315560
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Gaining Access written by John Mark Hansen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a comprehensive analysis of American agricultural politics in the past half-century, Gaining Access shows when, how, and why interest groups gain and lose influence in the policy deliberations of the United States Congress. By consulting with policy advocates, John Mark Hansen argues, lawmakers offset their uncertainty about the policy stands that will bolster or impede their prospects for reelection. The advocates provide legislators with electoral intelligence in Washington and supportive propaganda at home, earning serious consideration of their policy views in return. From among a multitude of such informants, representatives must choose those they will most closely consult. With evidence from congressional hearings, personal interviews, oral histories, farm and trade journals, and newspapers, Hansen traces the evolution of farm lobby access in Congress. He chronicles the rise and fall of the American Farm Bureau, the surge and decline of party politics, the incoporation of the commodity lobbies, the exclusion of the consumer lobbies, and the accommodation of urban interests in food stamps. Brilliantly combining insights from rational choice theory with historical data, Gaining Access is an essential guide for anyone interested in the dynamics of interest group influence.

British Musical Modernism

Author : Philip Rupprecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521844487
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book British Musical Modernism written by Philip Rupprecht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth historical analysis of British art music post-1945, providing a group-portrait of eleven composers ranging from avant-garde to pop.

Becoming New York's Finest

Author : A. Darien
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137321946
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Becoming New York's Finest written by A. Darien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After excluding women and African Americans from its ranks for most of its history, the New York City Police Department undertook an aggressive campaign of integration following World War II. This is the first comprehensive account of how and why the NYPD came to see integration as a highly coveted political tool, indispensable to policing.