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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Performance works
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Performance works.
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| Note |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2013. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 greatly from a severe reduction in grants in the mid-1970s. A scholar and playwright, Miller skillfully synthesizes economics, urban planning, tourism, and immigration to create a map of the interconnected urban landscape and to contextualize the struggle for resources. She reviews how numerous theater professionals, including Ellen Stewart of La MaMa E.T.C. and Julie Bovasso, Vinnette Carroll, and Joseph Papp of The Public Theater, developed innovative responses to survive the crisis. Combining theater history and close readings of productions, each of Miller's chapters is a case study focusing on a company, a production, or an element of New York's theater infrastructure. Her expansive survey visits Broadway, Off-, Off-Off-, Coney Island, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, community theater, and other locations to bring into focus the large-scale changes wrought by the financial realignments of the day. Nuanced, multifaceted, and engaging, Miller's lively account of the financial crisis and resulting transformation of the performing arts community offers an essential chronicle of the decade and demonstrates its importance in understanding our present moment.--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nineteen seventies.
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Nineteen seventies. |
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Recessions -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Recessions. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Performing arts -- Economic aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Performing arts -- Economic aspects. |
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Theater -- Economic aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Performing arts. |
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Theater -- Economic aspects. |
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Performing arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
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Theater. |
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20th century |
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Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
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History. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Miller, Hillary. Drop dead. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016 9780810133884 0810133881 (DLC) 2016031995 (OCoLC)948339861 |
| ISBN |
9780810133907 (electronic book) |
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0810133903 (electronic book) |
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9780810133884 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780810133891 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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081013389X |
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0810133881 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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