Make the Dream Real
World-Building Performance by El Vez, The Mexican Elvis
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About this book
El Vez performances present a powerful message of social justice and inclusion in changing US and social contexts. Make the Dream Real interrogates how this message is activated through world-building: the use of a variety of theoretical, theatrical, and musical tactics that bring into being a progressive social space that refutes the current economic, political, social, and cultural configurations of the United States.
World-building in an El Vez show "makes the dream real" by imagining a society in which equal rights are guaranteed, inclusivity is fostered, difference is valued, and the violence of economic inequality is mitigated. But, world-building through performance is not content to reside exclusively in the individual imagination or the social imaginary; it temporarily creates this new social space in actual time and space for the audience to experience. Using a dramaturgical methodology, which marries theoretical inquiry to theatrical practice based on dramaturgical thinking, critical proximity, and intellectual flexibility, the book delves into the theoretical foundations that inform artist Robert Lopez's work, and each chapter analyzes a different performative component he uses.
Make the Dream Real interrogates how El Vez's playful engagements hold the United States to its egalitarian promises, voicing and enacting - however fleetingly - a just and richly inclusive social space through performance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- The Forward: A Foreword
- The Kind People Have a Wonderful Dream: An Introduction
- 1. If There Is Any Hope for a Revolution: Activating Elvis
- 2. You May Call Me El, You May Call Me Vez: Lopez and El Vez in Performance
- 3. He with the Shiniest Pants Wins: Costumes and Merch
- 4. Like a Jukebox Exploded: Sound and Music in El Vez Performances
- The Future Is Unwritten, but I’ve Made Notes Already: A Conclusion, By Way of COVID and What Comes After
- Everything Old: An Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover