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- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Copyright
- © 2004 Performing Arts Journal, Inc.
- ISSN
- 1520-281X
- eISSN
- 1537-9477
- DOI
- 10.1162/152028104772624900
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
A PRODUCT OF HIS TIME The Performance Acts of Chris Bors Cheryl Katz M TV spawned an entire generation that is impervious to shock and has an attention span the length of a music video. These children of the 1980s are males who came of age in a transsexual world where the ladies’ man was dying, literally, and the evolved man was still a decade unborn. Or they are women who knew nothing of inequality and saw no reason not to be mother, breadwinner, lover, and wife all in one. They were raised on Madonna, Twisted Sister, and Culture Club, and occupied the bulk of their days playing video games and buying Orange Julius drinks at shopping malls. As they grew older, many responded by declaring themselves alternative. Grunge culture and the Seattle sound of Nirvana and Soundgarden seemed like the anthem for Generation X, but this socalled alternative culture was co-opted by the mainstream and became one of the ï¬rst casualties of a new world where nothing is immune to marketing. Automobile manufacturers and retirement planners wanted to know about this elusive group; a generation of consumers that has spent more time on the couch than in
Journal
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: Jan 1, 2004