Theater in America
– General readings : Lawrence Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow, the Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Harvard University Press, 1988) ; Russel Lynes, The Lively public : a Social History of the Visual and the Performing Arts in America, 1890-1950 (Harper & Row, 1985) ; Frédéric Martel, Mainstream (2006, in german) and Theater (2006, only in french).
– On Joe Papp : Helen Epstein, Joe Papp, An American Life (Little, Brown, Boston, 1994) ; Stuart W. Little, Enter Joseph Papp : in search of a new American theater (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1974).
– On Broadway : Brooks Atkinson, Broadway (MacMillan, 1970) ; Robert Emmet Long, Broadway, The Golden years (Continuum, 2001).
– US Theater history under Roosevelt : Harold Cluman, The Fervent Years, the Story of the Group Theatre and the Thirties (Knopf, 1945) ; John O’Connor et Lorraine Brown, Free, Adult, Uncensored : the Living History of the Federal Theatre Project (New Republic Books, 1978)
– OFF-Broadway : Stuart W. Little, Off-Broadway, the Prophetic Theater (Delta Books, 1972).
– On Theater’s economics : William Baumol et William Bowen, Performing Arts : the Economic Dilemma, A Study of Problems Common to Theatre, Opera, Music and Dance (Twentieth Century Fund, 1966)
– On Disney in Broadway : James Stewart, Disney War (Simon & Schuster, 2005)
– On avant-garde theater : American Avant-Garde Theatre : a History (Routledge, 2000) ; David Savran, Breaking the Rules : the Wooster Group (TCG, 1986) ; Richard Foreman, Unbalancing Acts : Foundations for a Theater (Pantheon Books, 1992) ; C. Carr, On Edge, Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century (Wesleyan University Press, 1993) ; Roselee Goldberg, Performance Art : from Futurism to the Present (Thames & Hudson, 2001).
– On diversity : Frank Rich, Hot Seat : Theater Criticism for the New York Times (Random House, 1998) ; Harry J. Elam, African-American Performance and Theater History : a Critical Reader (Oxford University Press, 2001),
Theater, some plays and participation
Smart Curation and Social Networks
• Amazon recommendation bias : George Packer, New Yorker
• Streaming’s ethics : Alex Ross, « The Classical Cloud« , New Yorker.
• Spotify : an article on the new Spotify’s algorithm for their “Discover Weekly” : Adam Pasick, “The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good”, Quartz, Dec 21, 2015.
• Smart Curation’s more general bibliography : bibliography
Art and digitalization ; models economics
• The creative apocalypse that wasn’t : study
• Bright
• Sedition
• Museum of Digital Art (Zurich) : le curateur est un algorithme (the curator is the machine).
• Twitter : Archillect
• Instapoets : exemples Tyler Knott Gregson (US) : 305.000 followers ; Lang Leav (291.000)
• Tumblr : Tyler Knott Gregson ;
• Lectures collectives Infinite Summer (Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace)
Book Tubers
• Jackson Bird YouTube Channel
• Jackon Bird : Harry Potter (The Harry potter alliance for minimum wage)
Other examples of arts and digitalization (other than in theater)
– San Francisco Symphony Orchestra : Keeping Score
– An example of digital art radio show (Pompidou Center/Beaubourg/France Culture) : here the podcast ; here the article.
– Other social networks : China : Weibo ; Renren ; Russia : Vkontakte ; Argentina : Taringa