THE ALBEES BETWEEN THE EARLY PREVAILING CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND POSTWAR CULTURAL RESISTANCE TO CORPORATE CULTURE
THE ALBEES BETWEEN THE EARLY PREVAILING CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND POSTWAR CULTURAL RESISTANCE TO CORPORATE CULTURE
Author(s): Florian Andrei VladSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Cultural history, Economic history, Sociology of Culture, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: corporate culture; culture industry; the organized System; American vaudeville; the theater of the Absurd;
Summary/Abstract: The article aims at showing the two extreme cultural attitudes promoted by some of the popular, mass culture business entrepreneurs associated with the American capitalist ethos in the late 1950s, subtly serving the interests of the controlling power elites, on the one hand, and the discontents, the rebellious figures of cultural resistance to the prevailing culture industries. These two extremes may be illustrated by the careers of an adopted grandfather and his adopted grandson, while the stories linking the beginning of American commercial theater and the beginning of more experimental postwar American theater will also be sketched to link the “in-between” part of this cultural narrative.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 269-275
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English