Decomposition

Part 1. Conferencing About the Unnatural
1. Introducing UNNATURAL ACTS, 1997 Susan Leigh Foster
2. ACTING UNNATURAL:Interpreting Body Art Amelia Jones
3. Listening to Local Practices: Performance and Identity Politics in Riverside, California Deborah Wong
Part 2. Contesting White Spaces
4. Black Noise / White Mastery Ronald Radano
5. Like a Weed in a Vacant Lot: The Black Artists Group in St. Louis George Lipsitz
6. Yayoi Kusama's Body of Art Kristine C. Kuramitsu
7. "Oh, You Can't Just Let a Man Walk Over You":
Staging Threepenny Opera in Singapore Sue-Ellen Case
Part 3. Acting Manly
8. The Britten Era Philip Brett
9. A Question of Balls: The Sexual Politics of Argentine Soccer Jeffrey Tobin
10. Music at Home, Politics Afar Timothy D. Taylor
Part 4. Talking Vulvas and Other Body Parts
11. Looking Like a Lesbian: Yvonne Rainer's Theory of Probability Catherine Lord
12. Structure, Size, and Play: The Case of the Talking Vulva B.J. Wray
Part 5. De-composing the Unnatural
13. Decomposition Elizabeth Wood
Notes on Contributors
Index