Performance in America contemporary U.S. culture and the performing arts

• Main Author: Roman, David 1959- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Durham, [N.C.] Duke University Press 2005
• Series: Perverse modernities.
• Subjects: Παραστατικές τέχνες > Κοινωνικές απόψεις > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : here and now
• 1. Not about AIDS
• 2. Visa denied : Chay Yew's theatre of immigration and the performance of Asian American history
• 3. Latino genealogies : Broadway and beyond - the case of John Leguizamo
• 4. Archival drag; or, the afterlife of performance
• 5. Cabaret as cultural history : popular song and public performance in America
• 6. Tragedy and the performing arts in the wake of September 11, 2001
• Afterword : the time of your life.