UID:
almafu_9960963725902883
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary edition.
ISBN:
0-231-55526-1
Content:
Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. He examines the syncretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the urban sites of London and New Orleans.
Note:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance -- 2. Echoes in the Bone -- 3. Betterton's Funeral -- 4. Feathered Peoples -- 5. One Blood -- 6. Carnival and the Law -- Epilogue: New Frontiers -- References -- Index.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-231-10460-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-231-20386-1
Language:
English
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