Farmscape
Subtitle: the changing rural environment
By: Mary Swander, editor
Contributors: Iowa State University; Ice Cube Press
Publisher: Ice Cube Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: North Liberty, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781888160680
Subjects: Farm life; Drama; Agriculture; History; Social life and customs
Description: Farmscape is a community play which documents the contemporary Midwest farmscape. Mary Swander's Iowa State University English class students interviewed farmers around their state and compiled their stories in the farmers' own words. Savor the taste of organic vegetables on a truck on its way to the local farmer's market, suit up in protective clothing and a mask before you enter a hog confinement operation. Experience the David and Goliath story of an organic farmer up against the economic forces of the 3500 acre agri-business operation next door. In the end, you'll understand that during the pioneer days, farming completely changed the ecosystem of the prairie. A hundred and fifty years later, this landscape is dramatically changing again. This book contains the full readers' theater script as well as commentary on both Farmscape and the changing rural environment it documents.
Notes: This book contains the full readers' theater script as well as commentary on both Farmscape and the Changing Rural Environment by Anna Lappé ... [et al.]

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword.; title: Agriculture and the arts : terms of endearment  -- Frederick Kirshenmann; title: Farmscape : the script --; title: How Farmscape happened  -- Mary Swander; title: The American farmscape and why it matters  -- Anna Lappé; title: Creating Farmscape in Independence, Iowa  -- Mary Klotzbach; title: Producing a celebrity cast for Farmscape  -- Vicki Simpson; title: What is lost  -- J. Harley McIlrath; title: The backstory of the "chicken-plucking" Latino/as in Farmscape  -- Claudia Prado-Meza; title: Where are women's voices in agriculture?  -- Leigh Adcock; title: Swearing in public  -- Jason Arbogast; title: An agricultural alternative  -- Francis Thicke; title: Acting in Farmscape  -- Jim O'Loughlin; title: F is for...  -- Laura Sweeney; title: Agriculture as the mother of arts -- Gene Logsdon.