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Description:: The dissertation project considers the generative possibilities to envision Black subjectivity that emerges from a sustained consideration of different forms of difficult racial and sexual intimacies. The artists whose work is engaged throughout the project, Leasho Johnson, Ajamu X, and NIC Kay recognize that to be Black is to always...
Keyword:: Black Visual Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Studies, Intimacy, Queer Studies, and Performance Studies
Subject:: African American studies
Creator:: Marsh, Gervais
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_987546 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16619

Description:: In the wake of environmental catastrophe, active intervention is needed to heal trauma, resist erasure, and navigate changing communities. Focusing on New Orleans after the federal levee failures following Hurricane Katrina, this dissertation looks across a diverse mix of case studies to theorize how communities utilize performance to navigate mass...
Keyword:: Museum Studies, Memorial, Urban Adaptation, Performance Studies, New Orleans, and Theatre
Subject:: Climate change, Performing arts, and Theater
Creator:: Twardowski, Weston
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15984 and etdadmin_upload_891419

Description:: Musical meter is often described as an objective grid-like system of time-points that is created by musical sounds. I define meter instead as any pattern of felt beats an individual listener chooses to hear, a physical and cognitive interpretation of the music that is (re-) created in the moment of...
Keyword:: Embodiment, Cognitive Science, Motion, Rhythm, Performance Studies, and Meter
Subject:: Music theory
Creator:: Hudson, Stephen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_662796 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14661

Description:: In a political climate where it is assumed that there are no alternatives to capitalism, architectural design and design-based activism are often heralded as providing solutions to capitalism’s negative effects. This dissertation is concerned with how contemporary architectural design naturalizes the organization of racial capitalist labor as it purports to...
Keyword:: Tiny Houses, Racial Capitalism, Labor, Architecture, Performance Studies, and Airbnb
Subject:: Labor relations, Architecture, and American studies
Creator:: Sandoval, Ashlie Andrea
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14730 and etdadmin_upload_672474

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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