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Drawing a Circle in the Square

Drawing a Circle in the Square


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Drawing a Circle in the Square: Street Performing in New York's Washington Square Park by Sally Harrison-Pepper This gratifying study of a phenomenon that has imprinted itself upon the folklore of big-city life is a joyful book focusing upon the street performers in Washington Square Park in New York City. While documenting the complex expressions of street performance in a specific outdoor environment over a period of four years, Drawing a Circle in the Square gives a broad examination to the relationship between outdoor performance and urban culture. In this book we learn that most American cities prohibit street performance, charging such entertainers with vagrancy, soliciting, or disturbing the peace. Yet the street performer-joyfully, cautiously, heroically-persists. On sidewalks throughout the country, in theatres reduced to their barest essentials, the performer juggles, blows fire, performs magic, and tells jokes, appealing both to our sense of humor and to our longing for a moment of spontaneity in our city-structured lives. Drawing a Circle in the Square is the first scholarly documentation and analysis of street performance. Based primarily upon original research, it makes a contribution that is as much toward a mode of performance literature as toward a particular subject. Promoting the study of performance as an important and valuable vehicle for interdisciplinary research and thought, it is a model of the kinds of research being developed in the emerging field of performance studies. Sally Harrison-Pepper is a professor of interdisciplinary studies at Miami University in Ohio.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781604735734
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 180
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Street Performing in New York's Washington Square Park
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1604735732
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1991
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 322 gr


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