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Local Acts: CommunityBased Performance in the United States (Rutgers Series: The Public Life of the Arts),Used
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An eclectic mix of art, theatre, dance, politics, experimentation, and ritual,communitybased performance has become an increasingly popular art movement in the United States. Forged by the collaborative efforts of professional artists and local residents, this unique field brings performance together with a range of political, cultural, and social projects, such as communityorganizing, cultural selfrepresentation, and education. Local Acts presents a longoverdue survey of communitybased performance from its early roots, through its flourishing during the politicallyturbulent 1960s, to presentday popular culture. Drawing on nine case studies, including groups such as the African American Junebug Productions, the Appalachian Roadside Theater, and the Puerto Rican Teatro Pregones, Jan CohenCruz provides detailed descriptions of performances and processes, firstperson stories, and analysis. She shows how the ritual side of these endeavors reinforces a sense of community identification while the aesthetic side enables local residents to transgress cultural norms, to question group habits, and to incorporate a level of craft that makes the work accessible to individuals beyond any one community. The book concludes by exploring how communitybased performance transcends even national boundaries, connecting the local United States with international theater and cultural movements.
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