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National Acts: Performance, Commemoration, and the Construction of American Public Memory in the Aftermath of the Civil War

Description:: “National Acts: Performance, Commemoration, and the Construction of American Public Memory” explores how sites of public commemoration created during and after the American Civil War crafted conceptions of American public memory and identities through performative processes. This dissertation looks at three commemorative efforts: the Freedmen’s Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln,...
Keyword:: public memory, performance studies, American culture, and public commemoration
Subject:: Theater history, American studies, and Museum studies
Creator:: Bryer, Rebekah M
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:16732 and etdadmin_upload_1012939

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

A Progressive World Theatre: The International Theatre Institute’s Third World Committee, 1971-1977

Description:: In the 1960s, the International Theatre Institute (ITI), the organization sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with a mission to represents the world’s theaters, was faced with a crisis of representation. After twenty years of existence, the institution had not succeeded in substantially expanding beyond...
Keyword:: World Theatre, International Theatre Institute, Progressive, Cold War, Cultural Diplomacy, and Theatre
Subject:: Literature, International relations, and Theater history
Creator:: Randle-Bent, Matthew Gordon
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16609 and etdadmin_upload_986891

His Grotesque Swagger; or, Morgan Benson, The Black Joke, and the Nineteenth-Century Target Parade

Description:: This dissertation examines anti-Black race-based ideologies prevalent in early American musical theatre through a multi-faceted case study concerning Morgan Benson, a child actor of the early musical theatre stage, Target Parades of the long nineteenth-century, and The Black Joke. This is an excavation project, seeking to unearth conceptual underpinnings for...
Keyword:: parade, black, joke, and target
Subject:: Black studies, Theater history, and American studies
Creator:: Overton-Mann, Dwayne Keith
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_930765 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16283

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

Entertaining Strangers: Hospitality and Early Modern England’s Literary Marketplace

Description:: “Entertaining Strangers” reveals how theories and practices of hospitality shaped and were shaped by the early modern print and theater industries. Whereas earlier studies of hospitality and literature have focused on aristocratic patronage, in this dissertation I reveal the vital importance of commercial hospitality as a framework for ethical and...
Keyword:: Travel writing, Hospitality, Performance studies, Print culture, Poetry, and Paratexts
Subject:: Philosophy, Theater history, and English literature
Creator:: Blankenau, Katherine Elizabeth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15447 and etdadmin_upload_791923

Entrance Forbidden to the Yiddish Theatres: Performance, Prostitution, and Protest in Buenos Aires (1900-1930)

Description:: Scholars of early-twentieth-century Buenos Aires—an international theatre hub— disproportionately emphasize Spanish-language performances. This tendency erases the histories of immigrant performing artists, such as Yiddish-speaking Jews who fled en masse to Argentina in order to escape rising antisemitism in Europe and Russia. By focusing on Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires, this...
Keyword:: Sexuality, Gender, Buenos Aires, Yiddish theatre, Avant-garde, and Modernism
Subject:: Judaic studies, Theater history, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Markenson, Casey Tova
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_756700 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15198

Constructing Celebrity: Strategies of Nineteenth Century British Actresses to Enhance Their Image and Social Status

Description:: Celebrity, reputation, and identity were complex issues for nineteenth-century British actresses. This dissertation examines how actresses responded to, integrated, and defied gender norms and social structures as they performed “authentic” identities for consuming publics. I investigate how actresses participated in charity events and bazaars, autobiographical writing, and advertising campaigns in...
Keyword:: Identity, Victorian, Reputation, Celebrity, Actresses, and England
Subject:: History, Theater, and Theater history
Creator:: Kelly, Lisa Michelle
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_667794 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14707

Made to Please: Vaudeville and Obscene Parisian Media, 1750-1793

Description:: The vaudeville remains an oft-overlooked genre of French song that was popularized by Paris’s fairground theaters and street singers on the Pont Neuf. Many histories of French music point to the middle of the eighteenth century as the period when the vaudeville began its rapid disappearance from the city’s musical...
Keyword:: French Revolution, French popular song, France, vaudeville, théâtre de société, and timbres
Subject:: French literature, Theater history, and Music history
Creator:: Harmon, Jenna M
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:14645 and etdadmin_upload_662497

The Forgotten Pioneer: Jean Carroll and the Jewish Female Origins of Stand-Up Comedy

Description:: Although Jewish studies, sociology, and performance studies texts abound with productive scholarship on Jewish men and their contributions to comedy in the mid-century United States, there is remarkably scant attention devoted to the equally significant contributions of their female counterparts. Nowhere is that bias clearer than the peculiar case of...
Keyword:: Assimilation, Jewishness, Gender, Comedy, Stand-up, and Performance
Subject:: Judaic studies, Theater history, and American studies
Creator:: Overbeke, Grace Kessler
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_662614 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14648

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National Acts: Performance, Commemoration, and the Construction of American Public Memory in the Aftermath of the Civil War

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

A Progressive World Theatre: The International Theatre Institute’s Third World Committee, 1971-1977

His Grotesque Swagger; or, Morgan Benson, The Black Joke, and the Nineteenth-Century Target Parade

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

Entertaining Strangers: Hospitality and Early Modern England’s Literary Marketplace

Entrance Forbidden to the Yiddish Theatres: Performance, Prostitution, and Protest in Buenos Aires (1900-1930)

Constructing Celebrity: Strategies of Nineteenth Century British Actresses to Enhance Their Image and Social Status

Made to Please: Vaudeville and Obscene Parisian Media, 1750-1793

The Forgotten Pioneer: Jean Carroll and the Jewish Female Origins of Stand-Up Comedy

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