Rehearsing Revolutions

Author : Mary McAvoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Amateur theater
ISBN : 9781609386412

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Rehearsing Revolutions by Mary McAvoy Pdf

Between the world wars, several labor colleges sprouted up across the U.S. These schools, funded by unions, sought to provide members with adult education while also indoctrinating them into the cause. As Mary McAvoy reveals, a big part of that learning experience centered on the schools' drama programs. For the first time, Rehearsing Revolutions shows how these left-leaning drama programs prepared American workers for the "on-the-ground" activism emerging across the country. In fact, McAvoy argues, these amateur stages served as training grounds for radical social activism in early twentieth-century America. Using a wealth of previously unpublished material such as director's reports, course materials, playscripts, and reviews, McAvoy traces the programs' evolution from experimental teaching tool to radically politicized training that inspired overt--even militant--labor activism by the late 1930s. All the while, she keeps an eye on larger trends in public life, connecting interwar labor drama to post-war arts-based activism in response to McCarthyism, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights movement. Ultimately, McAvoy asks: What did labor drama do for the workers' colleges and why did they pursue it? She finds her answer through several different case studies in places like the Portland Labor College and the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee.

Author : Odai Johnson
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0874137241

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Rehearsing the Revolution by Odai Johnson Pdf

It charts the limits of representation within the royal theater where Whig playwrights were challenging Stuart mythography, before moving out onto the streets where the contracts of representation were less circumscribed by royal interests. It was on the streets of London that the Whig party staged massive civic performances - the Pope-Burning pageants - that allowed the circulation of the Exclusion platform."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Colin Barker,Gareth Dale,Neil Davidson
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781642594898

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Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age by Colin Barker,Gareth Dale,Neil Davidson Pdf

This ambitious volume examines revolutionary situations during a non-revolutionary historical conjuncture--the neoliberal era. The last three decades have seen an increase in the number of political upheavals that challenge existing power structures, many of them taking the form of urban revolts. This book compellingly explores a series of such upheavals--in Eastern Europe, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, sub-Saharan Africa (including Congo, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso) and Egypt. Each chapter studies the ways in which protest movements developed into insurgent challenges to state power, and the strategies that regimes have deployed to contain and repress revolt. In addition to empirical chapters, the book engages in theorization of revolution, dealing with questions such as the patterning of revolution in contemporary history, the relationship between class struggle and social movements, and the prospects of socialist revolution in the twenty-first century.

Author : Colin Barker
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1931859027

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Revolutionary Rehearsals by Colin Barker Pdf

Five times in the last 40 years, the working class has posed a radical alternative to the status quo. France 1968: A general strike and factory occupations by millions of workers shake the country. Chile 1972: Workers defending the Popular Unity government set up workers' councils--the cordones--and demand control over production. Portugal 1974: Army officers overthrow the dictator Caetano and release an upsurge of "popular power" whichs last 18 months. Iran 1979: The viciously repressive Shah is toppled and workers set up independent councils, the shoras. Poland 1980: Demanding radical change, workers build the independent trade union Solidarity to fight for their own interests, exposing the false socialism of the Eastern Bloc. In each of these cases, the actions of workers themselves were the driving force of struggles with revolutionary potential. They demonstrate that workers can and will fight back on a mass scale. Each episode offers an inspiring glimpse of the way in which workers rise to the challenge of fighting for a better world--and pose their own alternative to the system. Although none of these struggles ultimately achieved their goals, they were "revolutionary rehearsals" that hold important lessons about the struggle for socialism under modern conditions.

Author : Rustom Bharucha
Publisher : Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015014228723

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Rehearsals of Revolution by Rustom Bharucha Pdf

Author : Heather E. Barry
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0761838147

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A Dress Rehearsal for Revolution by Heather E. Barry Pdf

John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon were political writers who published in London during the early eighteenth century. Together they authored two serial sets of essays titled Cato's Letters and the Independent Whig. Trenchard and Gordon's works were well known in London and became popular in the British North American colonies. This study examines the use and influences of Trenchard and Gordon's works in eighteenth-century British America. More specifically, Professor Barry demonstrates that Trenchard and Gordon's works were taken out of context and taught colonists a mode of action, which set the groundwork for the American Revolution.

Author : Vessela S. Warner,Diana Manole
Publisher : Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609386771

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Staging Postcommunism by Vessela S. Warner,Diana Manole Pdf

This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well.

Author : Elizabeth J. Perry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520271906

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Anyuan by Elizabeth J. Perry Pdf

“This book is classic Perry -- elegantly and clearly written, based on rich and previously unexplored source material, full of human detail on political actors at the local level, presenting a gripping narrative and a clear analytical thrust. Perry’s account of Anyuan is fresh and original, making a convincing case for the area’s enduring contribution to the revolution.” - Joseph W. Esherick, UC San Diego, author of Ancestral Leaves

Author : Patricia A. Ybarra
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810136472

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Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism by Patricia A. Ybarra Pdf

Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism traces how Latinx theater in the United States has engaged with the policies, procedures, and outcomes of neoliberal economics in the Americas from the 1970s to the present. Patricia A. Ybarra examines IMF interventions, NAFTA, shifts in immigration policy, the escalation of border industrialization initiatives, and austerity programs. She demonstrates how these policies have created the conditions for many of the most tumultuous events in the Americas in the last forty years, including dictatorships in the Southern Cone; the 1994 Cuban Rafter Crisis; femicides in Juárez, Mexico; the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico; and the rise of narcotrafficking as a violent and vigorous global business throughout the Americas. Latinx artists have responded to these crises by writing and developing innovative theatrical modes of representation about neoliberalism. Ybarra analyzes the work of playwrights María Irene Fornés, Cherríe Moraga, Michael John Garcés, Caridad Svich, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Victor Cazares, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Tanya Saracho, and Octavio Solis. In addressing histories of oppression in their home countries, these playwrights have newly imagined affective political and economic ties in the Americas. They also have rethought the hallmark movements of Latin politics in the United States—cultural nationalism, third world solidarity, multiculturalism—and their many discontents.

Author : Yang Jisheng
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374716912

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The World Turned Upside Down by Yang Jisheng Pdf

Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union’s "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation’s economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.

Author : Gonda Van Steen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230106505

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Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire by Gonda Van Steen Pdf

Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire explores two key historical episodes that have generally escaped the notice of modern Greece, the Near East, and their observers alike. In the midst of the highly charged context of West-East confrontation and with fundamental cultural and political issues at stake, these episodes prove to be exciting and important platforms from which to reexamine the age-old conflict. This book reaches beyond the standard sources to dig into the archives for important events that have fallen through the cracks of the study of emerging modern Greece and the Ottoman Empire. These events, in which French travel writing, literary fiction, antiquarianism, and nineteenth-century western and eastern geopolitics merge, invite us to redraw the outlines of mutually dependent Hellenism and Orientalism.

Author : William Klapp Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Italy
ISBN : UIUC:30112076472601

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The Dawn of Italian Independence by William Klapp Williams Pdf

Author : Kenneth Elliott
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609389208

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Beyond Ridiculous by Kenneth Elliott Pdf

Beyond Ridiculous tells the story of Theatre-in-Limbo, a downtown band of actors formed in 1984 by director Kenneth Elliott and playwright and drag legend Charles Busch. They launched Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at the Limbo Lounge, a raffish club in the fringes of the East Village, but it would later become the longest-running non-musical in off-Broadway history. From 1984 to 1991, Busch starred in eight Limbo productions, always in outrageously fabulous drag. In Beyond Ridiculous, Elliott narrates in first-person the company’s Cinderella tale of fun, heartbreak, and dishy drama. At the center of the book is a young Charles Busch, an unforgettable personality fighting to be seen, be heard, and express his unique style as a writer-performer in plays such as Psycho Beach Party and The Lady in Question. The tragedy of AIDS among treasured friends in the company, the struggle for mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ theatre during the reign of President Ronald Reagan, and the exploration of new ways of being a gay theatre artist make the book a bittersweet and joyous ride.

Author : William Roscoe Thayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Italy
ISBN : UOM:39015013535052

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The Dawn of Italian Independence by William Roscoe Thayer Pdf

Author : William Roscoe Thayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Italy
ISBN : MINN:319510024109536

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The Dawn of Italian Independence: Italy from the Congress of Vienna, 1914, to the Fall of Venice, 1849 by William Roscoe Thayer Pdf