This book contains the full readers' theatre script as well as commentary on both Farmscape and the Changing Rural Environment by Anna Lappé ... [et al.] Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Foreword. Agriculture and the arts : terms of endearment / Frederick Kirshenmann -- Farmscape : the script -- How Farmscape happened / Mary Swander -- The American farmscape and why it matters / Anna Lappé -- Creating Farmscape in Independence, Iowa / Mary Klotzbach -- Producing a celebrity cast for Farmscape / Vicki Simpson -- What is lost / J. Harley McIlrath -- The backstory of the "chicken-plucking" Latino/as in Farmscape / Claudia Prado-Meza -- Where are women's voices in agriculture? / Leigh Adcock -- Swearing in public / Jason Arbogast -- An agricultural alternative / Francis Thicke -- Acting in Farmscape / Jim O'Loughlin -- F is for -- / Laura Sweeney -- Agriculture as the mother of arts / Gene Logsdon.
Summary:
Farmscape is inspired by the community play which documents the contemporary Midwest farmscape.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.