Drop dead : performance in crisis, 1970s New York /

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Author / Creator:	Miller, Hillary, author.
Imprint:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016. ©2016
Description:	ix, 274 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Performance works Performance works.
Subject:	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. Nineteen seventies. Nineteen seventies. Performing arts. Performing arts -- Economic aspects. Recessions. Theater. Theater -- Economic aspects. New York (State) -- New York. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10915324

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ISBN:	9780810133884 0810133881 9780810133891 081013389X 9780810133907 0810133903
Notes:	Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2013. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: City in Crisis / Performance in Crisis
Part 1. Ideologies of Austerity
Chapter 1. Planned Shrinkage and the New Theater: Ellen Stewart, La Mama E.T.C., and Julie Bovasso
Chapter 2. TKTS and "Lost Audience" Anxiety: Fiscal Crisis Times Square
Part 2. Affective Inequalities
Chapter 3. Vinnette Carroll's Urban Arts Corps and the Inevitability of Interdependency
Chapter 4. The Theater of Poverty: Everyman in Coney Island
Part 3. The Performance of Neighborhood
Chapter 5. How the Public Became a Public: Joseph Papp's Civic Building
Chapter 6. The Brooklyn Syndrome: BAM and Outer-Borough Arts
Conclusion. The Myth of Self-Sufficiency
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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