Taking It to the Streets The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka

Name: Taking It to the Streets The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka
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ISBN: 9780472087686

ISBN-10: 0472087681

ISBN-13: 9780472087686

Edition: 2001

Authors: Harry Justin Elam, Harry J. Elam

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The performances of Luis Valdez's El Teatro Campesino, the farmworkers' theater, and Amiri Baraka's (LeRoi Jones's) Black Revolutionary Theater (BRT) during the 1960s and 1970s, offer preeminent examples of social protest theater during a momentous and tumultuous historical juncture. The performances of these groups linked the political, the cultural, and the spiritual, while agitating against the dominant power structure and for the transformation of social and theatrical practices in the U.S. Founded during the Delano Grape Pickers' Strike and Black Power rebellions of the mid-1960s, both El Teatro and the BRT professed cultural pride and group unity as critical corollaries to…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 7/31/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English