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 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 "playtrons." 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 the 1960s and 1970s, experimentation with
"ethnic" musical instruments and styles in popular music, the craft
revival, and various forms of immersive theater are all connected
back to their roots in the faire. Original, intrepid, and richly
illustrated, Well Met puts the Renaissance Faire back at the
historical center of the American counterculture.
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