Not the other avant-garde
Subtitle: the transnational foundations of avant-garde performance  / c edited by James M.  Harding and John Rouse.
Contributors: Harding, James Martin, 1958-; Rouse, John.
Series: Theater--theory/text/performance
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780472099313; 9780472069316
Subjects: Experimental theater -- History -- 20th century; Experimental drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: "Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant-garde began primarily as a European phenomenon that in turn spread around the world. These ten original essays, especially commissioned for Not the Other Avant-Garde, forge a radically new conception of the avant-garde by demonstrating the many ways in which the first--and second--wave avant-gardes were always already a transnational phenomenon, an amalgam of often contradictory performance traditions and practices developed in various cultural locations around the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, Argentina, India, and Japan. Essays from leading scholars and critics--including Marvin Carlson, Sudipto Chatterjee, John Conteh-Morgan, Peter Eckersall, Harry J. Elam Jr., Joachim Fiebach, David G. Goodman, Jean Graham-Jones, Hannah Higgins, and Adam Versenyi--suggest collectively that the very concept of the avant-garde is possible only if conceptualized beyond the limitations of Eurocentric paradigms. Not the Other Avant-Garde is groundbreaking in both avant-garde studies and performance studies and will be a valuable contribution to the fields of theater studies, modernist studies, art history, literature, and music history."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes index.