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New Deal theaterthe vernacular tradition in American political theater /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	New Deal theaterIlka Saal.
Reminder of title:	the vernacular tradition in American political theater /
Author:	Saal, Ilka.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007.
Description:	232 p.
Subject:	TheaterPolitical aspects20th century.United States
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230608832

New Deal theaterthe vernacular tradition in American political theater /
Saal, Ilka.

New Deal theaterthe vernacular tradition in American political theater /[electronic resource] :Ilka Saal. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2007. - 232 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-221) and index.

Brecht on Broadway: reconsidering political theater -- Disjunctive aesthetics: a genealogy ofpolitical theater -- Strike songs: working- and middle-class revolutionaries -- Plays of cash and cabbages: from proletarian melodrama to revolutionary realism -- Why sing skies above?: labor musicalsand living newspapers -- Toward postmodernism: the political theater of the 1960s.

New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism. While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting cultural critique. In this regard it offers a vital alternative to the dominant modernist paradigm developed in Europe. Rather than radicalizing content and form, New Deal theater insisted that the political had to be made commensurable with the language of a mass audience steeped in consumer culture. The resulting vernacular praxis emphasized empathy over alienation, verisimilitude over abstraction. By examining the culturalvectors that shaped this theater, Saal shows why it was more successful on the American stage than its European counterpart and develops a theory of vernacular political theater which can help us think of the political in art in other than modernist terms.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230608832

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230608832doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

475264
Theater
--Political aspects--United States--20th century.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS338.P6 / S33 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 812.5209358

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