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The Taylor Mac book : ritual, realness and radical performance
- Title
- The Taylor Mac book : ritual, realness and radical performance / David Román & Sean F. Edgecomb.
- Author
- Román, David, 1959-
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Edgecomb, Sean F.
- Description
- x, 307 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This is the first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. Mac is particularly celebrated for the historic performance event A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, in which Mac, in fantastical costumes designed by collaborator Machine Dazzle, sang the history of the United States for 24 straight hours in October 2016. The MacArthur Foundation soon thereafter awarded their "genius" award to a "writer, director, actor, singer, and performance artist whose fearlessly experimental works dramatize the power of theater as a space for building community . . . [and who] interacts with the audience to inspire a reconsideration of assumptions about gender, identity, ethnicity, and performance itself." Featuring essays, interviews, and commentaries by noted critics and artists, the volume examines the vastness of Mac's theatrical imagination, the singularity of their voice, the inclusiveness of their cultural insights and critiques, and the creativity they display through stylistic and formal qualities and the unorthodoxies of their personal and professional trajectories. Contributors consider the range of Mac's career as a playwright, performer, actor, and singer, expanding and enriching the conversation on this much-celebrated and deeply resonant body of work.
- Series Statement
- Triangulations
- Uniform Title
- Triangulations.
- Subject
- Mac, Taylor, 1973- > Criticism and interpretation
- Performance artists > New York (State) > New York > Criticism and interpretation
- Gay singers > New York (State) > New York > Criticism and interpretation
- Gay actors > New York (State) > New York > Criticism and interpretation
- Dramatists > Criticism and interpretation
- Drag queens > New York (State) > New York > Criticism and interpretation
- Drag queens
- Dramatists
- Gay actors
- Gay singers
- Performance artists
- Queens (Gay culture)
- Criticism and interpretation
- New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Art criticism.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-295) and index.
- Call Number
- MWES (Mac, T.) 23-3418
- ISBN
- 0472055275
- 9780472055272
- 0472075276
- 9780472075270
- OCLC
- 1304812695
- Author
- Román, David, 1959- author.
- Title
- The Taylor Mac book : ritual, realness and radical performance / David Román & Sean F. Edgecomb.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- TriangulationsTriangulations.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-295) and index.
- Added Author
- Edgecomb, Sean F., author.
- Research Call Number
- MWES (Mac, T.) 23-3418