Cities of the Dead Circum-Atlantic Performance

Name: Cities of the Dead Circum-Atlantic Performance
Price: 11.48 USD
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ISBN: 9780231104616

ISBN-10: 0231104618

ISBN-13: 9780231104616

Edition: 1996

Authors: Joseph Roach

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The colorful handmade costumes of beads and feathers swirl frenetically, as the Mardi Gras Indians dance through the streets of New Orleans in remembrance of a widely disputed cultural heritage. Iroquois Indians visit London in the early part of the eighteenth century and give birth to the "feathered people" in the British popular imagination. What do these seemingly disparate strands of culture share over three hundred years and several thousand miles of ocean? Artfully interweaving theatrical, musical, and ritual performance from the eighteenth century to the present in London and New Orleans, Cities of the Dead takes a look at a rich continuum of intercultural exchange that reinvents,…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/25/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.44" wide x 8.94" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English