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Taking it to the Streets: The Social Protest Theatre of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka
Harry J. Elam Jr.Taking It to the Streets compares the performance methodologies, theories, and practices of the two groups, highlighting their cross-cultural commonalties, and providing insights into the complex genre of social protest performance and its interchange with its audience. It examines the ways in which ritual can be seen to operate within the productions of El Teatro and the BRT, uniting audience and performers in subversive, celebratory protest by transforming spectators into active participants within the theater walls—and into revolutionary activists outside. During this critical historical period, these performances not only encouraged community empowerment, but they inculcated a spirit of collective faith and revolutionary optimism. Elam's critical reexamination and recontextualization of the ideologies and practices of El Teatro and the BRT aid in our understanding of contemporary manipulations of identity politics, as well as current strategies for racial representation and cultural resistance.
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Contents
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1 An Initiation into the Rituals of Social Protest Theater: The Cultural Politics of El Teatro Campesino and the Black Revolutionary Theater
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2 Synergy—The Social Environment as an Active Agent: Black Ice and Las Dos Caras del Patroncito
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3 Generating Social Change and Cultural Affirmation: Content and Form in the Plays of El Teatro and the BRT
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4 Rehearsing the Revolution Onstage: The Social Performance Text and the Performance Space
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5 Performers and Spectators: Spiritual Communion and Subversive Celebration
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6 The Rituals of Social Protest Theater: Reconsiderations and Conclusions
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Illustrations
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