Taking it to the streets : the social protest theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka

Author/Creator:

Elam, Harry Justin

Publication/Creation:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1997]

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Taking it to the streets : the social protest theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka / Harry J. Elam, Jr.

Series Titles:

Theater--theory/text/performance
Theater--theory/text/performance.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Billops, Camille, former owner
Hatch, James V. (James Vernon), 1928-2020, former owner

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

African American author

Subjects:

Baraka, Amiri,1934-2014--Criticism and interpretation
Teatro Campesino (Organization)
Workers' theater--California
Mexican American theater--California

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

An initiation into the rituals of social protest theater: the cultural politics of El Teatro Campesino and the Black Revolutionary Theater -- Synergy - the social environment as an active agent: Black Ice and Las Dos Caros del Patroncito -- Generating social changes and cultural affirmation: content and form in the plays of El Teatro and the BRT -- Rehearsing the revolution onstage: the social performance text and the performance space -- Performers and spectators: spiritual communion and subversive celebratin -- The rituals of social protest theater: reconsiderations and conclusions.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xi, 187 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Local Note:

Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library copy has dust jacket; from the library of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990009976480302486

ISBN:

0472107933 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780472107933 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC Number:

35688174

Barcode:

010000279932
010002485873