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Make the Dream Real

by Karen Jean Martinson
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Original price ₹11,379.00
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781835951002
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Intellect
  • Publisher Imprint: Intellect
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 254
  • Original Price: GBP 89.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 750 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / Hispanic & Latino, Theater / General, and Individual Composer & Musician

Explores the intricate world-building of El Vez's performances and how they enable audiences to imagine a more socially just society.

El Vez, also known as the Mexican Elvis, presents a powerful message of social justice and inclusion in his performances. Make the Dream Real interrogates how this message is activated through world-building: the use of a variety of theoretical, theatrical, and musical tactics that bring into being a progressive social space that refutes the current economic, political, social, and cultural configurations of the United States.

World-building in an El Vez show immerses the audience in a social space in which equal rights are guaranteed, inclusivity is fostered, difference is valued, and the violence of economic inequality is mitigated. Using a dramaturgical methodology that marries critical inquiry with theatrical practice, the book delves into the theoretical foundations that inform artist Robert Lopez's work, and each chapter analyzes a different performative component he uses.

Make the Dream Real interrogates how El Vez's playful engagements hold the United States to its egalitarian promises, voicing and enacting--however fleetingly--a just and richly inclusive social space through performance.

Martinson, Karen Jean: - Karen Jean Martinson is assistant professor of dramaturgy in the School of Music, Dance, and Theatre at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University.

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