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Voicing an Other: Utilizing Puppetry and Pageantry for Community- Based Spectacle in America

Koerner, Ethan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1219701727

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2008, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Theatre and Film.
Bread and Puppet, In the Heart of the Beast, and Redmoon Theater each utilize masks, puppets, and performance objects to create large-scale outdoor spectacles with the goal of creating, engaging, and/or building community. Each of these three companies can be seen as representative of one of Jan Cohen-Cruz's three strains of community-based performance: (1)"[A]ctivist performance as vigorous support for or opposition to sociopolitical circumstances," (2) "grassroots performance to retain and express collective identity grounded in tradition or place," and (3) "experimentation characterized by art blurred with life, whose everydayness welcomes broader participation and shapes and expands aesthetic impulses." This thesis will place these three companies into a historical context of puppet and mask traditions employed in the service of community, and will show the way in which each company corresponds to one of the three strains of community-based performance by discussing the companies' history, performance modes, and aesthetics.
Scott Magelssen, PhD (Advisor)
Jonathan Chambers, PhD (Committee Member)
Michael Ellison, PhD (Committee Member)
122 p.
Theater
Puppetry; Community-based performance; Bread and Puppet; In the Heart of the Beast; Redmoon Theater

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  • Koerner, E. (2008). Voicing an Other: Utilizing Puppetry and Pageantry for Community- Based Spectacle in America [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1219701727

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Koerner, Ethan. Voicing an Other: Utilizing Puppetry and Pageantry for Community- Based Spectacle in America. 2008. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1219701727.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Koerner, Ethan. "Voicing an Other: Utilizing Puppetry and Pageantry for Community- Based Spectacle in America." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1219701727

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