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Strategic Blackface: Re-Deploying American Minstrelsy from Black Arts to #BlackLivesMatter

Description:: This dissertation theorizes the relation between blackface minstrelsy and contemporary Black performance. The project analyzes the use of nineteenth-century blackface minstrel conventions in Black theatrical performances during later eras where its usage seems counter-intuitive: during the Black freedom struggles of the 1960s; within Black feminist and queer performance of the...
Subject:: Performing arts, Black studies, and Theater history
Creator:: Watts, Steven Keary
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16781 and etdadmin_upload_1014341

“They’re Tryin’ to Wash Us Away”: Performance, Urban Adaptation, and the New New Orleans

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

Surreal Black Beauty: Risk, Difficulty, and Alterity in Contemporary Black Feminist Performance

Description:: Black women performers have made, and continue to make, contributions to the U.S.-avant-garde performance canon and Black performance traditions that go largely unaccounted for in academic studies. Research has shown that across temporalities, Black women performers have mobilized experimental avant-garde aesthetics to disrupt and refuse essentialized notions of Blackness in...
Keyword:: Avant-garde performance, Performance studies, and Black feminism
Subject:: African American studies, Gender studies, and Performing arts
Creator:: Webb, Chaunesti Nichelle
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_903678 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16104

Forms Follows Action: Performance in/against the City in New York and Los Angeles (1970-1985)

Description:: This critical/theoretical history of performance art investigates the relationship between the body of the artist and the infrastructure of the city in Los Angeles and New York City between 1970 and 1985, with specific attention to how performance art resists, renegotiates, and responds to architectural functionalism. Using performance studies as...
Keyword:: Los Angeles, Movement, New York City, Built environment, Performance Art, and Kinesthetic
Subject:: Performing arts, Art history, and Architecture
Creator:: Morelli, Didier
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15698 and etdadmin_upload_841523

Embodying Race, Performing Citizenship: Racial Impersonation and Immigrant Identity in American Popular Entertainment, 1870–1920

Description:: “Embodying Race, Performing Citizenship” investigates racial and ethnic impersonationsin American popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, between the 1870s and the 1920s. I focus my analyses on first-generation Irish, Chinese, and Jewish Eastern European artists and their American-born children during a time when the United States had absorbed the highest number of...
Keyword:: Jewish American, Chinese American, Irish American , Racial impersonation, Immigration history , and American popular entertainment
Subject:: Performing arts, Theater history, and American studies
Creator:: De Simone, Maria
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/06/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_844553 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15740

Unmournable Void: Tending-toward the Black Dead and Dying in Contemporary Black Performance and Visual Art

Description:: Unmournable Void: Tending-Toward the Dead and Dying in Contemporary Black Performance and Visual Art, explores critical artistic practices that tend to the historical conditions of anti-black violence resulting from transatlantic slavery, colonialism, and apartheid. This triad of regimes produced the Black condition as the unmournable void lived in close proximity...
Keyword:: Blackness and Death
Subject:: Performing arts, Art history, and African studies
Creator:: Zondi, Mlondolozi Bradley
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_764213 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15261

Performing Monstrosity: Queer and Transgender Tactics of Resistance in Twenty-first Century U.S.

Description:: This dissertation is a theoretically informed project that blends ethnographic and archival research methods to examine how queer and transgender performance artists deploy monstrosity as a tactic to question the terms by which LGBTQ people are granted or denied humanity in twenty-first century United States. While there is an abundance...
Keyword:: feminism, queer, transgender, monsters, body-based art, and theater
Subject:: LGBTQ studies, Gender studies, and Performing arts
Creator:: Langes, Rae A.
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:14523 and etdadmin_upload_639772

Infidel(itie)s of Colour: Unruly Black Bodies, Modernity and Performance in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Description:: Infidel(itie)s of Colour: Unruly Black Bodies, Modernity and Performance in Post-Apartheid South Africa focusses on the ways that queer and feminist artists of colour draw upon their traditional black cultural heritage and spiritual practises as a means of laying claim to cultural citizenship and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa. I...
Keyword:: Race, Gender, Modernity, Post-Apartheid South Africa, and Postcolonial Studies
Subject:: Performing arts, Dance, and African studies
Creator:: Mtshali, Mbongeni N.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_676184 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14750

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Strategic Blackface: Re-Deploying American Minstrelsy from Black Arts to #BlackLivesMatter

“They’re Tryin’ to Wash Us Away”: Performance, Urban Adaptation, and the New New Orleans

Surreal Black Beauty: Risk, Difficulty, and Alterity in Contemporary Black Feminist Performance

Forms Follows Action: Performance in/against the City in New York and Los Angeles (1970-1985)

Embodying Race, Performing Citizenship: Racial Impersonation and Immigrant Identity in American Popular Entertainment, 1870–1920

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