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Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance

Name: Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 9780231104616
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Contributors:

Joseph Roach

Publisher:

Columbia University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, Anthropology

Book Topic:

American

Series:

Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms

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Release Date:

1996-04-25

ISBN 13:

9780231104616

Weight:

1.02 lbs

Size:

8.98 x 5.95 x 0.82 inches

Pages:

320

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Description

The colorful handmade costumes of beads and feathers swirl frenetically, as the Mardi Gras Indians dance through the streets of New Orleans in remembrance of a widely disputed cultural heritage. Iroquois Indians visit London in the early part of the eighteenth century and give birth to the "feathered people" in the British popular imagination.

What do these seemingly disparate strands of culture share over three hundred years and several thousand miles of ocean? Artfully interweaving theatrical, musical, and ritual performance from the eighteenth century to the present in London and New Orleans, Cities of the Dead takes a look at a rich continuum of intercultural exchange that reinvents, recreates, and restores history.

Complemented with fifty-five illustrations, including spectacular photos of the famed Mardi Gras Indians, this fascinating work employs an entirely unique approach to the study of culture. Rather than focusing on one region, Cities of the Dead explores broad cultural connections over place and time, showing through myriad examples how performance can revise the unwritten past.

About the Author
Joseph Roach is professor of English at Tulane University. He is the author of The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting, which won the Barnard Hewitt Award, and coeditor, with Janeele Reinelt, of Critical Theory and Performance.