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- catalog abstract ""Artfully interweaving theatrical, musical, and ritual performance along the Atlantic rim from the eighteenth century to the present, Cities of the Dead explores a rich continuum of cultural exchange that imaginatively reinvents, re-creates, and restores history." "Enriched with fifty-five illustrations, including spectacular photos of New Orleans's famed Mardi Gras Indians, Joseph Roach's work employs an entirely unique approach to the study of culture. Rather than focusing on one region, Cities of the Dead describes broad cultural connections over place and time, showing through myriad examples how performance can revise the unwritten past." "Through illuminating discussions of social events ranging from burials to sacrifices, from auctions to parades, encompassing regional traditions as diverse as Haitian Voudon and British funerals, the book looks at the synchretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Exploring processes of substitution, or surrogation, as enacted in performance, Roach demonstrates the ways in which we fill the voids left by death and departure." "Cities of the Dead proposes a new way to think about the relationship between history and memory as well as between document and performance. It details patterns of remembrance and forgetting, of communities forging their identities and imagining their futures."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9098594.
- catalog coverage "London (England) History.".
- catalog coverage "New Orleans (La.) History.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""Artfully interweaving theatrical, musical, and ritual performance along the Atlantic rim from the eighteenth century to the present, Cities of the Dead explores a rich continuum of cultural exchange that imaginatively reinvents, re-creates, and restores history." "Enriched with fifty-five illustrations, including spectacular photos of New Orleans's famed Mardi Gras Indians, Joseph Roach's work employs an entirely unique approach to the study of culture. Rather than focusing on one region, Cities of the Dead describes broad cultural connections over place and time, showing through myriad examples how performance can revise the unwritten past." "Through illuminating discussions of social events ranging from burials to sacrifices, from auctions to parades, encompassing regional traditions as diverse as Haitian Voudon and British funerals, the book looks at the synchretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Exploring processes of substitution, or surrogation, as enacted in performance, Roach demonstrates the ways in which we fill the voids left by death and departure." "Cities of the Dead proposes a new way to think about the relationship between history and memory as well as between document and performance. It details patterns of remembrance and forgetting, of communities forging their identities and imagining their futures."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-309) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 328 p. :".
- catalog identifier "023110460X (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0231104618 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Social foundations of aesthetic forms series.".
- catalog isPartOf "The social foundations of aesthetic forms".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England London".
- catalog spatial "England London.".
- catalog spatial "London (England) History.".
- catalog spatial "Louisiana New Orleans".
- catalog spatial "Louisiana New Orleans.".
- catalog spatial "New Orleans (La.) History.".
- catalog subject "791 20".
- catalog subject "Carnival Louisiana New Orleans History.".
- catalog subject "Communication and culture.".
- catalog subject "Folklore England London Performance.".
- catalog subject "Folklore Louisiana New Orleans Performance.".
- catalog subject "Folklore Performance England London.".
- catalog subject "Folklore Performance Louisiana New Orleans.".
- catalog subject "GT4211.N4 R63 1996".
- catalog subject "Memory Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Theater and society England London History.".
- catalog subject "Theater and society Louisiana New Orleans History.".
- catalog title "Cities of the dead : circum-Atlantic performance / Joseph Roach.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".