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Theatre and festivals / Keren Zaiontz.

By: Zaiontz, Keren [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Description: 110 pages ; 18 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781137443038 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Theater | Theater -- Social aspects | Festivals | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 792 Summary: This succinct and engaging text rethinks the common wisdom that festivals, sites of collective celebration and play, provide a temporary reprieve from the grind of everyday 'real' life. Keren Zaiontz explores the ways in which cultural performances of resistance that have their basis in festivals can migrate to other contexts, making festivals as much the domain of free markets and state power as that of vanguard artists and progressive social movements.
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This succinct and engaging text rethinks the common wisdom that festivals, sites of collective celebration and play, provide a temporary reprieve from the grind of everyday 'real' life. Keren Zaiontz explores the ways in which cultural performances of resistance that have their basis in festivals can migrate to other contexts, making festivals as much the domain of free markets and state power as that of vanguard artists and progressive social movements.

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