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Description:: This dissertation examines how filmic, literary, and popular musical performances of black female sexualities in the post- civil rights era both reveal and frustrate state-sanctioned infringements on black freedom. “The Paradox of Black Freedom: Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Performance, 1965-2000” elucidates a powerful paradox wherein the US state enacts...
Keyword:: Black Feminism, Post-civil rights era black popular culture, Black Sexuality Studies, Black Studies, and Performance Studies
Subject:: Performance Studies
Creator:: Shoniqua Danee Roach
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/09/2018
Date Modified:: 01/29/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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

Description:: This dissertation articulates the practice of clown theater by a Chicago-based company called 500 Clown in order to provoke further investigation and definition of this hybrid theatrical form, which, though increasingly popular as a practice, has yet to be theorized or historicized. This study addresses clown theater's relationships with other...
Keyword:: Performance Studies
Subject:: Performance Studies
Creator:: Leslie Buxbaum Danzig
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/27/2018
Date Modified:: 08/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-12-04
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Circling the Cosmograms marks the first full-length study of second-generation feminist and/or queer art and performance in the Haitian Dyaspora (Haitian Kreyòl spelling) following the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Through archival research, visual and performance art analysis, and in-depth interviews, I document the ways feminist and/or queer Haitian-American...
Keyword:: Haiti, Gender, Diaspora, Religion, Vodou, and Performance Studies
Subject:: Performance Studies
Creator:: Kantara Souffrant
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/02/2018
Date Modified:: 04/02/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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