[NEohioPAL] Performing Arts Books at Cleveland Public Library

[Donald Boozer]

The following books pertaining to the performing arts are just a sampling of the variety available from the Literature Department at Cleveland Public Library. We encourage you to stop by and browse our collection. The Literature Department is located on the second floor of the Main Library, downtown Cleveland, at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue. Click on the link provided to access the library’s catalog to reserve any of these titles. For more information, visit our location, call 216-623-2881, or email us at “literature <at> cpl.org.”

The World-fixer
Thomas Bernhard
Translated by Josef Glowa, Donald McManus, and Susan Hurley-Glowa
Ariadne Press, 2005
(PT2662.E7 W3513 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=1572411422
This is a translation, the first into English, of Der Weltverbesserer, a play penned by Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) in 1979. The translation decisions were based on the idea that the play is a satire on the ideas, personality, and legend of the Austrian-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), who appears throughout Bernhard's oeuvre.

Sam Shepard
Seven Plays
Dial Press, 2005
(PS3569.H394 A6 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=0553346113
This collection of Shepard’s work includes Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, and True West, with an Introduction by Richard Gilman.

Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
Daphne A. Brooks
Duke University Press, 2006
(PN2270.A35 B77 2006)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=0822337223
(Link includes table of contents)
Daphne A. Brooks argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic activists, actors, singers, and other entertainers frequently transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization through performance. Brooks considers the work of African American, Anglo, and racially ambiguous performers in a range of popular entertainment, including racial melodrama, spectacular theatre, moving panorama exhibitions, Pan-Africanist musicals, Victorian magic shows, religious and secular song, spiritualism, and dance. She describes how these entertainers experimented with different ways of presenting their bodies in public—through dress, movement, and theatrical technologies—to defamiliarize the spectacle of “blackness” in the transatlantic imaginary. – from back cover

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Donald Boozer
Subject Department Librarian
Cleveland Public Library
Literature Department
325 Superior Avenue East
Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: 216-623-2881
Fax: 216-623-7050
dboozer at cpl.org
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