America Under the Influence - Drinking, Culture, and Immersive Performance

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Chloe Rae Edmonson, Chloë Rae Edmonson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032266565
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226656-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Dance, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / United States / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, ART / American / General, ART / Performance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Addiction & therapy, Theatre Studies, United States of America, USA, Addiction and therapy, History of the Americas, Performance Art