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Liquor Store Theatre: Ethnography & Contemporary Art In Detroit, Maya Stovall, Ph.D.
Liquor Store Theatre: Ethnography & Contemporary Art In Detroit, Maya Stovall, Ph.D.
Wayne State University Dissertations
ABSTRACT
LIQUOR STORE THEATRE:
ETHNOGRAPHY AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN DETROIT
by
MAYA STOVALL
2018
Advisor: Dr. Andrew D. Newman
Major: Anthropology
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Liquor Store Theatre is a study of the struggle for the city in contemporary Detroit. An ethnography completed over several years in an east side Detroit neighborhood called McDougall Hunt, the project exists in a variety of registers, working across contemporary art, performance, urban anthropology, critical geography, visual studies, film and new media, African American studies, and urban studies. The visual work of Liquor Store Theatre includes a four-volume, twenty-plus video episode meditation on city …