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Cultural struggles: performance, ethnography, praxis

Lorne Dwight Conquergood and E. Patrick Johnson
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction: "Opening and Interpreting Lives" (E. Patrick Johnson, page 1)
  • I. PERFORMANCE
  • Performing Cultures: Ethnography, Epistemology, and Ethics (page 15)
  • Of Caravans and Carnivals: Performance Studies in Motion (page 26)
  • Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research (page 32)
  • Beyond the Text: Toward a Performative Cultural Politics (page 47)
  • II. ETHNOGRAPHY
  • Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance (page 65)
  • Rethinking Ethnography: Towards a Critical Cultural Politics (page 81)
  • Rethinking Elocution: The Trope of the Talking Book and Other Figures of Speech (page 104)
  • III. PRAXIS
  • Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication, and Culture (page 127)
  • Life in Big Red: Struggles and Accomodations in a Chicago Polyethnic Tenement (page 170)
  • Homeboys and Hoods: Gang Communication and Cultural Space (page 224)
  • Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty (page 264)
  • IV. CRITICAL RESPONSES
  • Dwight Conquergood and Performative Political Economy (Micaela di Leonardo, page 303)
  • Response-ability, Vulnerability, and Other(s') Bodies (Judith Hamera, page 306)
  • Caravans Continued: In Memory of Dwight Conquergood (Shannon Jackson, page 310)
  • "Is Dwight, White?!" or Black Transgressions and the Preeminent Performance of Whiteness (D. Soyini Madison, page 314)
  • "Soundscapes of Power": Attending to Orality, Communicating Class, and Hearing the Humor in Dwight Conquergood's "Voice" (Lisa Merrill, page 320)
  • Performance into Policy (Della Pollock, page 324)
  • Eloquence and Vocation: Dwight's Calling (Joseph Roach, page 328)
  • Contributors (page 333)
  • Index (page 335)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
DR 59.1 (spring 2015): 181-183 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/575991
TJ 66.4 (December 2014): 646-647 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/563994
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Published: c2013
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780472071951 (hardcover)
  • 9780472029297 (ebook)
  • 9780472051953 (paper)
Subject
  • Dance & Performance History
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