Avant-garde performance & the limits of criticism : approaching the Living Theatre, happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts movement / Mike Sell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sell, Mike, 1967-

Series:

Theater--theory/text/performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.).

Fluxus (Group of artists).

Black Arts movement.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Avant-garde performance and the limits of criticism

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2005]

Contents:

Introduction: The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized 1

Case 1 The Connection: Cruelty, Jazz, and Drug War, 1959-1963 57

1 Cruelty and the Cold War 59

2 Jazz and Drug War 91

Case 2 Happenings, Fluxus, and the Production of Memory 133

3 Bad Memory 135

4 The Avant-Garde Disappears 165

5 Performance and the Mode of Production 205

Case 3 The Black Arts Movement: Text, Performance, Blackness 215

6 Blackness as Critical Practice 217

7 Blackness and Text 243

8 Was the Black Arts Movement an Avant-Garde? 276.

Notes:

Originated in the author's dissertation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-313) and index.

ISBN:

0472114956

OCLC:

60715029

Publisher Number:

9780472114955