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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

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