America Under the Influence

Auteur

Chloë Rae Edmonson is Assistant Professor and Dramaturgy Coordinator at the University of Central Florida School of Performing Arts, USA.

Texte du rabat

In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is performative, immersive performance is intoxicating, and how alcohol shapes performance space.

Contenu

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: Immersive Bars

1 - The Concert Saloon: Waiter Girls and Hetero-Masculine Drinking Culture

2 - Slumming: Racialized Intoxication and Black Performance in Prohibition-Era Harlem

3 - The Tiki Bar: Exoticized Cocktails and American Fantasies of Escape

PART II: Intoxicating Theaters

4: Tony, Tina, and Tamara: Champagne and Distinction in 1980s Immersive Theater

5: Contemporary Immersive Theater: The Cult of Ritual Drinking in Sleep No More and The Illuminati Ball

Conclusion: Drinking, Culture, and Immersion from a Distance

Index