For many young adults, art performances simply aren’t fun. (Le) Poisson Rouge, a multimedia art cabaret in New York’s Greenwich Village, is trying to combat such alienation by masking an arts institution as a nightclub, mixing art and alcohol, and making classical performances fun without dumbing them down.
about the author
Lisa McCormick is in the sociology department at Haverford College. She is the co-editor of Myth, Meaning, and Performance: Toward A New Cultural Sociology of the Arts.
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Yes, I was carded. « 風乎舞雩，詠而歸。
[...] McCormick 曾在美國社會學會出版的社會學科普雜誌Context上寫了一篇文章，說明其實像Le Poisson Rouge這種場地，正好為社會學家Richard [...]
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