1st Edition

America Under the Influence Drinking, Culture, and Immersive Performance

176 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

176 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

176 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is performative, immersive performance is intoxicating, and how alcohol shapes performance space and practice. Combining archival research with firsthand accounts of immersive spaces, this study demonstrates how social drinking and performance in themed... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: Immersive Bars

1 – The Concert Saloon: Waiter Girls and Hetero-Masculine Drinking Culture

2 – Slumming: Racialized Intoxication and Black Performance in Prohibition-Era Harlem

3 – The Tiki Bar: Exoticized Cocktails and American Fantasies of Escape

PART II: Intoxicating Theaters

4: Tony, Tina, and Tamara: Champagne and Distinction in 1980s Immersive Theater

5: Contemporary Immersive Theater: The Cult of Ritual Drinking in Sleep No More and The Illuminati Ball

Conclusion: Drinking, Culture, and Immersion from a Distance

Index