Greenwich Village 1963

Autorentext

Sally Banes, Professor of Theater History and Dance History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the author of Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance, and co-author of Fresh: Hip Hop Don't Stop.

Klappentext

This book does not aim to document comprehensively the extraordinarily rich activity in New York City in the early 1960's. Instead, the author focuses on one year, 1963. This was the most productive year of the period 1958-64, the transition between the Fifties and Sixties. The author also focuses on one other place---Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan. For it was primarily here, in a place already historically and culturally mythologized as avant-garde terrain, that the emerging generation of vanguard artists lived, worked, socialized, and remade the history of the avant-garde. - from the Introduction.

Inhalt

Illustrations 150
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1

1. Another Space 1
2. The Reinvention of Community 33
3. Which Culture? 81
4. Equality 109
5. Dreaming Freedoms 137
6. The Body is Power 189
7. The Anxiety of the Absolute 235
   Notes 257
   Index 291