Title Local acts : community-based performance in the United States / Jan Cohen-Cruz.

Publication Info.	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]
	©2005

Online access
Online eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.
Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook

Item Status

Description	1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Rutgers series on the public life of the arts
	Rutgers series on the public life of the arts.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index.
Contents	Early antecedents -- Motion of the ocean -- Establishing the field -- Between ritual and art -- Criticism -- Storytelling -- Performance structures.
Summary	The author surveys community-based performance in the US from its roots to present-day popular culture. She describes performances and processes, and shows how ritualism reinforces community identification while aestheticism enables locals to transgress cultural norms.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Community theater -- United States.
	Community theater.
	United States.
	Theater and society -- United States.
	Theater and society.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Title	Community-based performance in the United States
Other Form:	Print version: Cohen-Cruz, Jan, 1950- Local acts. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2005 0813535492 0813535506 (DLC) 2004016354 (OCoLC)55960850
ISBN	0813537584 (electronic book)
	9780813537580 (electronic book)
	1280360879
	9781280360879
	0813535492 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
	9780813535494 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
	0813535506 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	9780813535500 (paperback ; alkaline paper)