Premium
Making Monsters: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade and the Politics of Representation
Author(s) -
Kugelmass Jack
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/ciso.1996.8.1.128
Subject(s) - parade , greenwich , politics , appropriation , representation (politics) , deindustrialization , event (particle physics) , history , media studies , sociology , political science , law , art history , linguistics , philosophy , physics , environmental science , archaeology , quantum mechanics , soil science
THE GREENWICH VILLAGE Halloween Parade evolved since 1974 from intimate street theater into a major New York City event. Despite such apparent success, some veteran participants have become highly critical of the event, seeing it as an appropriation of a community celebration. In his book on the parade, the author gave voice to such criticisms. In doing so, the author found himself on a collision course with the current organizer of the parade who questioned the authority of individual voices. The essay examines the problematic nature of attempting to find a balance among informants' contradictory points of view.