Places for Happiness: Community, Self, and Performance in the Philippines

by William Peterson

Book Overview

Places for Happiness explores two of the most important performance-based activities in the Philippines: the processions and Passion Plays associated with Easter and the mass-dance phenomenon known as "street dancing." The scale of these handcrafted performances in terms of duration, time commitment, and productive labor marks the Philippines as one of the world's most significant and undervalued performance-centered cultures. Drawing on a decade...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824875206
• ISBN13: 9780824875206
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 258 Pages