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Review Of ‘Competitive Irish Dance: Art, Sport, Duty’, Christie L. Fox
Review Of ‘Competitive Irish Dance: Art, Sport, Duty’, Christie L. Fox
English Faculty Publications
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Breaking Forms: The Shift To Performance In Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, Christie L. Fox
Breaking Forms: The Shift To Performance In Late Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, Christie L. Fox
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Distanciation And The Recontextualization Of Space: Finding One’S Way In A Small Western Community, Lisa Gabbert
Distanciation And The Recontextualization Of Space: Finding One’S Way In A Small Western Community, Lisa Gabbert
English Faculty Publications
In the 1990s, the city of McCall, Idaho, and the surrounding region implemented the Rural Addressing System. The system assigned a name to every street and a number to every house and erected visible signage for both. Although a seemingly minor bureaucratic operation, the Rural Addressing System is a concrete example of Anthony Giddens's concept of space distanciation, and as such, it is a significant component of modernity and globalization. By investigating the impact of the Rural Addressing System on this region—particularly on the ways in which people give directions and think about space there—this article sheds light on how …
Review Of Jack Santino’S Signs Of War And Peace, Jeannie Thomas
Review Of Jack Santino’S Signs Of War And Peace, Jeannie Thomas
English Faculty Publications
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Galway Arts Festival, 2003: Focusing On Home, Still Delighting, Christie L. Fox
Galway Arts Festival, 2003: Focusing On Home, Still Delighting, Christie L. Fox
English Faculty Publications
For twenty-six years the Galway Arts Festival has “morphed” the city of Galway into its natural logical conclusion: the city already boasts a young, artistic community, but for two weeks each summer, the festival brings the spotlight and the crowds to Galway for a celebration of the arts. Of late, however, the festival has suffered from decreased government expenditures on the arts—as have all the arts in Ireland. Recent festivals have been far more subdued than the extravagant Millennial Festival in 1999, during which the city teemed with outdoor events and more than one hundred thousand people gathered to watch …
Creating Community: Macnas’S Galway Arts Festival Parade, 2000, Christie L. Fox
Creating Community: Macnas’S Galway Arts Festival Parade, 2000, Christie L. Fox
English Faculty Publications
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Review Of Susan Stern’S Film, Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour, Jeannie Thomas
Review Of Susan Stern’S Film, Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour, Jeannie Thomas
English Faculty Publications
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The Self In ‘Fieldwork’: A Methodological Concern, Christie L. Fox, Beverly Stoeltje, Stephen Olbrys
The Self In ‘Fieldwork’: A Methodological Concern, Christie L. Fox, Beverly Stoeltje, Stephen Olbrys
English Faculty Publications
As concepts of reflexivity and postcolonial perspectives have advanced our understandings of the way we represent those we study, they have also introduced a consciousness of the role of the self in research. This article reviews the history of the field of folklore with regard to the method of obtaining data or texts and demonstrates that collecting material contrasts with the practice of conducting research in the field. Pointing to a moment of transition, it shows that theories of folklore had to undergo significant change before methods of research would acknowledge the identity of the fieldworker and its significance.