The Taylor Mac Book
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-05527-2 (ISBN)
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.
David Román is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Southern California. Sean F. Edgecomb is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance in the Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center and the Coordinator of Drama at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.
Contents
Preface: “It’s going to go on a lot longer than you want it to”:
A Conversation about Taylor Mac, Covid and Collaboration.
David Román and Sean F. Edgecomb
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Early Performance of Taylor Mac
Sean F. Edgecomb
1: Participation, Endurance, and the Pucker in Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge
Carrie J. Preston
2: Between Hir and There: Considering Taylor Mac’s Work as Bridging Genres
Kelly I. Aliano
3: Queer Pussy Time: Taylor Mac’s Lesbian Decade
Kim Marra
4: Too Slow: Taylor Mac and the Rubs of Time
Lisa A. Freeman
5: Taylor Mac, Walt Whitman, and Adhesive America: Cruising Utopia with the Good
Gay Poet
Jennifer Buckley
6: Circles and Lines: Community and Legacy in Taylor Mac’s Gary:
A Sequel to “Titus Andronicus”
Erika T. Lin
7: Designturgy, Being Queer: Taylor Mac Wears Machine Dazzle in 24 Decades
Sissi Liu
8: Sing the Revolution!: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Taylor Mac and the Great American Songbook
David Román
9: The Walk Across America for Mother Earth
Paul Zimet
10: An Interview with Taylor Mac
Kevin Sessums
11: Reflections on Collaboration
Matt Ray
Machine Dazzle
Viva DeConcini
Niegel Smith
Tigger! Ferguson
Barbara Gustern
Linda Brumbach
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance |
| Zusatzinfo | 41 illustrations, 1 table |
| Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-472-05527-5 / 0472055275 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-472-05527-2 / 9780472055272 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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