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Performing Texts; Playing With Jazz Aesthetics, Richard (Rick) Walters
Performing Texts; Playing With Jazz Aesthetics, Richard (Rick) Walters
Doctoral Dissertations
Despite all the critical attention jazz has received in recent years from scholars in other fields---literature, history, political science, cultural studies---very little headway has been made in understanding what jazz aesthetics are and how they might inform other forms of cultural and artistic expression. Part of the difficulty lies in the time-bound, performative nature of the artform and the fact that it is primarily a non-discursive means of expression; that is to say, jazz does not translate well.
This dissertation attempts to evoke and inhabit jazz aesthetics rather than trying to define, categorize or delineate them. Alternating between close reading, …
"Everybody Get Together": The Sixties Counterculture And Public Space, 1964--1967, Jill Katherine Silos
"Everybody Get Together": The Sixties Counterculture And Public Space, 1964--1967, Jill Katherine Silos
Doctoral Dissertations
Historians and cultural analysts have traditionally considered the sixties counterculture an apolitical phenomenon by historians and other analysts. Yet concentrated examination of the public activities of the counterculture in San Francisco from 1963 to 1967 reveals that they were engaged in the creation of a public political culture that challenged the power of civil authorities to regulate the uses of parks, streets and sidewalks. In doing so, the counterculture constituted a distinct community with a political agenda.
This thesis is demonstrated through an analysis of the development of an ethos toward public space in the Beat movement and Merry Prankster …