Well Met
：Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture
Publication subTitle ：Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture
Author： Rubin Rachel Lee
Publisher： NYU Press
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9780814738108
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781479859726
Subject： C91 Sociology;D73/77 National Politics;K101 Revolutionary History;K14 in the United States: 1640 ~ 1917);K15 contemporary history (1917 ~);K7 Americas History
Keyword： 各国政治,美洲史,近代史（1640~1917年）,现代史（1917年~）,革命史,社会学
Language： ENG
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Description
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 "e;family friendly"e; leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Faire. Well Met approaches the Faire from the perspective of labor, education, aesthetics, business, the opposition it faced, and the key figures involved. Drawing upon vibrant interview material and deep archival research, Rachel Lee Rubin reveals the way the faires established themselves as a pioneering and highly visible counter cultural referendum on how we live now-our family and sexual arrangements, our relationship to consumer goods, and our corporate entertainments. In order to understand the meaning of the faire to its devoted participants,both workers and visitors, Rubin has compiled a dazzling array of testimony, from extensive conversations with Faire founder Phyllis Patterson to interviews regarding the contemporary scene with performers, crafters, booth workers and "e;playtrons."e; Well Met pays equal attention what came out of the faire-the transforming gifts bestowed by the faire's innovations and experiments upon the broader American culture: the underground press of th
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