Browsing by Department "Performance Studies"
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(2016-05-03)This study examines the feminism of Viola Spolin, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer, all of whom, in some capacity, are involved in the contemporary practice and performance of feminist comedy. Using various feminist ...
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(2013-06-05)What can 15th century France and heavy metal have in common? In Heavy Metal Humor, Gary Powell explores metal culture through the work of Mikael Bakhtin‘s “carnivalesque theory.” Describing the practice of inverting commonly ...
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(2012-07-16)After 9/11, American stand-up comedy includes an increasing presence of Arab and Muslim comedians whose humor engages some of the recurring Islamophobic stereotypes circulating in the United States. These comedians combine ...
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(2020-05-21)How do a steel band’s practices, customs, and traditions create its unique social culture, and how are these practices rooted in the cultural history of the instrument? This text examines the history and evolution of the ...
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(2017-04-24)The divide between the popular and the esoteric typically prevents virtuosic and overtly political material from reaching the masses, limiting its reach to more highbrow consumers of art. Beyoncé’s 2016 release, Lemonade, ...
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(2016-05-09)This thesis examines the role of prison theatre practitioners, both within the prison and in their free-communities. Through ethnographic, theoretical, and performance based research I aim towards offering readers an ...
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(2019-08-08)Molotov, a Mexico City band mixing elements of rock and hip hop, blends elements of humor and socio-political critique that place it as a staple of protest music in Mexico by articulating problems present in the country ...
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(2016-07-27)Notes from the Music Scholarship Online meeting held at Texas A&M University on January 28 and 29, 2016 in conjunction with the "MuSO: Aggregation and Peer Review for Music" project. This meeting considered metadata standards ...
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(University of Illinois Press/Society for Ethnomusicology, 2014-04-17)This article identifies a set of issues that are at the heart of contemporary ethnomusicological research on the politics of music and suggests directions for future work in this area. Populism, the dialectical relationship ...
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(2015-04-24)As Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom draw to a close, Americans are curious to learn more about soldier experiences during wartime. War memorials document public war memories and how the masses relate ...
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(Society for Ethnomusicology/University of Illinois Press, 1997-09)
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(2013-07-03)For years Black women’s subjectivity in the use of their bodies and movements has been overshadowed or completely erased by dominant hegemonic systems that created its own narrative of Black women, their bodies, and their ...
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(2015-08-04)After a brutal and widely publicized gang rape in December 2012, women’s safety in public spaces has been a significant site of debate and discourse about Delhi as a city and India as a country. My Master’s thesis focuses ...
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(2012-07-16)Through a combination of personal interviews and participant-observation in three field sites ? the Tim Miller workshop and performance of October 2010 and the student organizations Cepheid Variable and the GLBT Aggies ? ...
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(2012-07-16)War and war-fighters have become immortalized through performance; generations of service-men and women are defined by actions on the battlefield artfully altered on stage and screen. This reciprocal relationship, whether ...
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(2015-05-08)Queer fandoms on tumblr aid in the formation of identity and the self. As a micro-blogging website, tumblr works to create a constantly expanding archive of each user’s posts, and thus can potentially document the development ...
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(2021-06-04)This thesis investigates and analyzes the online performance of fan culture through the creation and discussion of what are known as fan theories, which are ideas or critical analyses done by fans of a particular media ...
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(2013-02-04)Stage managers provide centralized communication, organization, and task coordination for all individuals in the production team. This study explores the advantages and disadvantages of different and new forms of technology ...
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(TDR: The Drama Review, 2013)During the same week in November 2012, hostilities erupted between Israel and the Gaza Strip and Toneelgroep Amsterdam brought Roman Tragedies to the stage in Brooklyn. As the conflict in the Middle East took on digital ...
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"Temporarily Machiavellian" examines the performance of self in reality television. This study demonstrates how contestants on "Survivor" manipulate and reinvent their identities in performance. Combining the disciplines ...