University Press of Mississippi
Drawing a Circle in the Square: Street Performing in New York's Washington Square Park
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9781604735734
ISBN13:
9781604735734
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$44.82
Drawing a Circle in the Square: Street Performing in New York's Washington Square Park
$44.82
This gratifying study of a phenomenon that has imprinted itself upon the folklore of big-city life, is a joyful book focusing upon the street performers in Washington Square Park in New York City. While documenting the complex expressions of street performance in a specific outdoor environment over a period of four years, Drawing a Circle in the Square gives a broad examination to the relationship between outdoor performance and urban culture. In this book we learn that most American cities prohibit street performance, charging such entertainers with vagrancy or soliciting, the performer--joyfully, cautiously, heroically--persists. On sidewalks throughout the country, in theaters reduced to their barest essentials, the performer juggles, blows fire, performs magic, and tells jokes, appealing both to our sense of humor and to our longing for a moment of spontaneity in our city-structured lives. Drawing a Circle in the Square is the first scholarly documentation and analysis of street performance. Based primarily upon original research, it makes a contribution that is as much toward a particular subject. Promoting the study of performance as an important and valuable vehicle for interdisciplinary research and thought, and it is a model of the kinds of research being developed in the emerging field of performance studies.
| Author: Sally Harrison-Pepper |
| Publisher: University Press of Mississippi |
| Publication Date: Jan 20, 2010 |
| Number of Pages: 180 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1604735732 |
| ISBN-13: 9781604735734 |
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