Well Met : Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture / Rachel Lee Rubin.
2012
GT4603 .R83 2016
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Title
Well Met : Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture / Rachel Lee Rubin.
Author
Rubin, Rachel Lee, author.
ISBN
9780814738108
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814771389.001.0001 doi
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GT4603 .R83 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
394.609730904
Summary
The Renaissance Faire-a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring-receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major "family friendly" leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Faire.Well Met approaches the Faire from the perspective of labor, education, aesthetics, business, the opposition it faced, and the key figures involved. Drawing upon vibrant interview material and deep archival research, Rachel Lee Rubin reveals the way the faires established themselves as a pioneering and highly visible counter cultural referendum on how we live now-our family and sexual arrangements, our relationship to consumer goods, and our corporate entertainments.In order to understand the meaning of the faire to its devoted participants,both workers and visitors, Rubin has compiled a dazzling array of testimony, from extensive conversations with Faire founder Phyllis Patterson to interviews regarding the contemporary scene with performers, crafters, booth workers and "playtrons." Well Met pays equal attention what came out of the faire-the transforming gifts bestowed by the faire's innovations and experiments upon the broader American culture: the underground press of the 1960s and 1970s, experimentation with "ethnic" musical instruments and styles in popular music, the craft revival, and various forms of immersive theater are all connected back to their roots in the faire. Original, intrepid, and richly illustrated, Well Met puts the Renaissance Faire back at the historical center of the American counterculture.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Interviews
Introduction
1. "Welcome to the Sixties!"
2. Artisans of the Realm
3. "Shakespeare, He's in the Alley"
4. "A Place to Be Out"
5. "Every Day Is Gay Day Here"
6. Hard Day's Knight
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Interviews
Introduction
1. "Welcome to the Sixties!"
2. Artisans of the Realm
3. "Shakespeare, He's in the Alley"
4. "A Place to Be Out"
5. "Every Day Is Gay Day Here"
6. Hard Day's Knight
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author