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Hillary Miller's Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New Yorkoffers a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of how the city's financial crisis shaped theater and performance practices in this turbulent decade and beyond. New York City's performing arts community suffered great...

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Main Author: Miller, Hillary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theater > Economic aspects.
Theater.
Recessions.
Performing arts > Economic aspects.
Performing arts.
Nineteen seventies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Arts du spectacle > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Theâtre > Aspect economique > New York (État) > New York.
Arts du spectacle > Aspect economique > New York (État) > New York.
Recessions > New York (État) > New York.
Annees soixante-dix (Vingtieme siecle)
Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Performing arts > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Theater > Economic aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Performing arts > Economic aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Recessions > New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: City in crisis, performance in Crisis
  • Planned shrinkage and the new theater : Ellen Stewart, La Mama e.t.c., and Julie Bovasso
  • TKTS and "lost audience" anxiety : fiscal crisis Times Square
  • Vinnette Carroll's Urban Arts Corps and the "inevitability of interdependency"
  • The theater of poverty : Everyman in Coney Island
  • How the public became a public : Joseph Papp's Civic Building
  • The Brooklyn syndrome : BAM and outer-borough arts
  • Conclusion. the myth of self-sufficiency.

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