Chloë Rae Edmonson

America Under the Influence (eBook, ePUB)

Drinking, Culture, and Immersive Performance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is performative, immersive performance is intoxicating, and how alcohol shapes performance space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000925678
• Artikelnr.: 68429194

Autorenporträt

Chloë Rae Edmonson is Assistant Professor and Dramaturgy Coordinator at the University of Central Florida School of Performing Arts, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: Immersive Bars
1 - The Concert Saloon: Waiter Girls and Hetero-Masculine Drinking Culture
2 - Slumming: Racialized Intoxication and Black Performance in
Prohibition-Era Harlem
3 - The Tiki Bar: Exoticized Cocktails and American Fantasies of Escape
PART II: Intoxicating Theaters
4: Tony, Tina, and Tamara: Champagne and Distinction in 1980s Immersive
Theater
5: Contemporary Immersive Theater: The Cult of Ritual Drinking in Sleep No
More and The Illuminati Ball
Conclusion: Drinking, Culture, and Immersion from a Distance
Index