Vanguard performance beyond left and right /edited by Kimberly Jannarone. 

 - Ann Arbor :  Univ Of Michigan Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface --  Acknowledgments --  Introduction : the political fallacy of vanguard performance /  part I. Heroic vanguards and radical reactionaries --  Part introduction : performance at the edge of the abyss /  9/11 as avant-garde art? /  Il Duce's directors : art theaters as instruments of the fascist revolution /  Patricide and the fascist sublime /  "So that the sun should shine on free men" : Henry Williamson, Lawrence of Arabia, and the performance of vanguard visions /  Mishima's balcony performance : hypermasculinity, masochism, and reactionary vanguardism /  part II. Exalted and en masse --  Part introduction : immersion, togetherness, and the sublime /  Collisions in the coliseum : mussolini, modernism, and the agon for antiquity /  Beijing, 2008 /  "Signaling through the flames" : hell house performance and structures of religious feeling /  "One vision" : music, performance, combat /  part III. Research wings for the right --  Part introduction : something's happening here : encountering vanguard performance in context /  Encrypted vanguards and bleeding-edge technologies : signals intelligence, radio drama, and the false transmissions of the special operations executive /  Beatrice Joanna and the rhetoric of rape /  The academy and the marketplace : avant-garde performance in neoliberal times /  Avant-garde theory and right-wing ideology /  Kimberly Jannarone --  Alan Filewod --  Richard Schechner --  Patricia Gaborik --  Monica Achen --  Graham White --  Kara Reilly --  Kimberly Jannarone --  Odai Johnson --  Katherine Profeta --  Ann Pellegrini --  Erik Butler --  Graham White --  James Harding --  Kim Solga --  Liz Tomlin --  Mike Sell. 
<br/><br/> Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding "radical" and "experimental" performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The book brings to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes the performances intended to oppose. In so doing, the volume explores a central paradox: how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by leading international scholars pose engaging questions about the historical avant-garde, vanguard acts, and the complex role of artistic innovation and live performance in global politics. Focusing on performances that work against progressive and democratic ideas (including scripted drama, staged suicide, choral dance, terrorism, rallies, and espionage), the book demonstrates how many compelling performance ideals--unification, exaltation, immersion--are, in themselves, neither moral nor immoral; they are only emotional and aesthetic urges that can be powerfully channeled into a variety of social and political outlets. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780472121397 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020706997 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Avant-garde (Aesthetics)<br/>Arts--Political aspects.<br/>Right and left (Political science)
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BH301  / .V364 2015