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CONTENTS Preface: How to Use This Book vii Acknowledgments xi Part I: Framing the Work Chapter One. Making Space: Producing the Austin Project 3 Chapter Two. Finding Voice: Anchoring the Austin Project’s Artistic Process 12 Part II: Working the Work: An Anthology of Austin Project Writings Chapter Three. Polyphony: Writings by Ensemble Members 29 Chapter Four. Call and Response: Performance Pieces by Austin Project Guest Artists 154 Chapter Five. Affirming Connection: Pre-Show Artists’ Performance Texts 259 Chapter Six. Spoken-Word Orchestra: A Full Script from the Austin Project Jam Session, December 2005 273 Part III:The Work of Transformation Chapter Seven. Transforming Practice: Artists, Activists, and Academics Working across Boundaries 323 Chapter Eight. Work of the Spirit: A Conversation with an Austin Project Elder 343 Chapter Nine. Narrating the Austin Project: The First Five Years 350 Notes 369 Index 373 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

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