Make the Dream Real : World-Building Performance by el Vez, the Mexican Elvis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martinson, Karen Jean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans.

Performance art--United States.

Performance art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect, Limited, 2025.

Summary:

El Vez performances present a powerful message of social justice and inclusion in changing US and social contextsMake the Dream Real interrogates how artist Robert Lopez playful engagements as El Vez hold the United States to its egalitarian promises, voicing and enacting a just, richly inclusive social space through performance. 34 col. illus.

Contents:

Cover

Make the Dream Real: World-Building Performance by El Vez, The Mexican Elvis

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

The Forward: A Foreword

The Kind People Have a Wonderful Dream: An Introduction

1. If There Is Any Hope for a Revolution: Activating Elvis

2. You May Call Me El, You May Call Me Vez: Lopez and El Vez in Performance

3. He with the Shiniest Pants Wins: Costumes and Merch

4. Like a Jukebox Exploded: Sound and Music in El Vez Performances

The Future Is Unwritten, but I've Made Notes Already: A Conclusion, By Way of COVID and What Comes After

Everything Old: An Afterword

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83595-101-5

1-83595-102-3

OCLC:

1517592870