Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture

by Rachel Lee Rubin

Book Overview

The Renaissance Faire--a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring--receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major "family friendly" leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479859729
• ISBN13: 9781479859726
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"