Abstract
A contemporary American street fair is a form of public celebration, a commercial rendezvous masquerading as a block party and assuming the tone of a festival. It is also, customarily, a site for performance, but I wish to focus not on the explicit instances-the work of the troubadours and mountebanks whom the sponsors engage to fiddle, jig and juggle for the entertainment of the public-but rather on the more discreet performative behaviors of the people who attend the fair. A street fair springs from mercantile ambition and provides an occasion for a holiday, but it also offers a means for a community to present and affirm itself through a reflexive process of cultural exhibition.
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