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Description:: This dissertation explores mid-twentieth century US stand-up comedy recordings and how they elaborate upon definitions of the avant-garde in theatre and performance studies. Weaving theories of comedy, aesthetics, radical performance, and sound studies, I argue for the reconceptualization of the avant-garde as an intellectual impulse outside of the parameters of...
Keyword:: belle barth, richard pryor, stand-up comedy, jackie "moms" mabley, voice, and avant-garde
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Creator:: Russell, Eleanor
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_785832 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15430

Description:: This project will describe, in part, the central theoretical problem of the avant-garde, in phenomenological, theoretical, and ultimately ontological terms. The object of this chapter will be to acquire an understanding of the tension between the improvised phenomenality of the avant-garde, and its assumption and hypostatization into discourse. In doing...
Keyword:: avant-garde, Mandelstam, critical theory, Khlebnikov, and literature
Subject:: Slavic literature, Literature, and Modern literature
Creator:: Olowoyeye, Folahan
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15138 and etdadmin_upload_744123

Description:: This dissertation narrates the circulation and institutionalization of an emergent category of talk performance within the late-twentieth century US avant-garde through the career trajectories of three artists from disparate disciplinary backgrounds working in and around the 1970s: theatrical monologist Spalding Gray, poet David Antin, and dance artist and filmmaker Yvonne...
Keyword:: David Antin, Yvonne Rainer, America, avant-garde, Spalding Gray, and performance
Subject:: Theatre and Drama
Creator:: Ira S. Murfin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/11/2019
Date Modified:: 02/11/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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