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1. Across the Strait: History, Performance and Gezaixi in China and Taiwan
- Description:
- This dissertation is a comparative study of gezaixi (Taiwanese opera) in China and Taiwan. It foregrounds the different, at times conflicting, performance styles and aesthetics of gezaixi on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, which is primarily the result of a long closure (1949-1987) imposed by the two regimes, and...
- Keyword:
- Xiqu
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Hsiao-Mei Hsieh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
2. Night Shifts: Moral, Economic, and Cultural Politics of Turkish Belly Dance Across the Fins-de-Siècle
- Description:
- This dissertation examines the ways in which performance forms articulate with urban identities in the context of transnational economic and cultural exchange. In this multisited historical ethnography, I explore the links between late 19th-century Ottoman and contemporary Turkish public spheres fractured by morality battles and political transformation. Both periods are...
- Keyword:
- Urban ethnography, dance, cultural anthropology, Islam, gender analysis, late Ottoman Empire, and modern Turkey
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Oyku Potuoglu-Cook
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
3. Choreographing Citizenship in the "Gayelle": Performing Trinidadian Cultural Nationalisms
- Description:
- This dissertation combines critical ethnography, critical performance and historical analysis to examine three Trinidadian dance companies - Malick Folk Performing Company, Shiv Shakti Dance Company, and Noble Douglas Dance Company Inc. - asking how each choreographs Trinidadian discourses of race/ethnicity, class and national belonging through its own uniquely crafted embodied...
- Keyword:
- Cultural Nationalism, Critical ethnography, Creolization, Postcolonial Caribbean, Cultural Development, Dance Studies, and Performance Studies
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Meida Teresa McNeal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
4. Doin' the Down Low, Remixin' the Closet: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Sexual Passing
- Description:
- This dissertation project explores the relationship between the architectures of black masculinity in America and a specific performance of discreet sexual identity. Through critical ethnographic and discursive exploration, I look closely at a group of black men who describe themselves as being on the "down low" (DL). These men, who...
- Keyword:
- sexuality
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Jeffrey Quinn Mccune
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
5. Performance-conscious Activism and Activist-conscious Performance as Discourse in the Aftermath of the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992
- Description:
- This dissertation deploys an interdisciplinary methodology, extending what is conventionally understood as discourse to include performance. It brings together the fields of performance studies, discourse analysis and theatre studies to document, contextualize, and analyze the events after the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992. It examines gang youth who turned to...
- Keyword:
- Anna Deavere Smith, performance studies, gangs, African American Studies, Los Angeles riots, and grass roots activism
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Kamran Afary
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
6. Crossing the Military-Civilian Divide: Performance, Affect, and Embodiment in Staging Veterans’ Stories
- Description:
- This dissertation analyzes theater performances that use narratives of U.S. military veterans in the post 9/11 era in order to cross the military-civilian divide. Engaging theories of performance, embodiment, and affect, this project investigates the depiction of military bodies onstage, the public perception of military identities, and the lived experience...
- Keyword:
- Performing arts and Theatre
- Subject:
- Performance Studies
- Creator:
- Margaret Lebron
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
