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A United, Not A Divider: Community, Identity, Performance & The Tomato Krewe Parading Group Of East Nashville's Tomato Art Festival, Allison Cate May 2023

A United, Not A Divider: Community, Identity, Performance & The Tomato Krewe Parading Group Of East Nashville's Tomato Art Festival, Allison Cate

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis is an ethnographic study of the “Tomato Krewe,” a social group that participates in the parade of East Nashville’s annual Tomato Art Festival. Drawing on participant-observation, interviews, and my own experiences as a member of the krewe and resident of East Nashville, I examine krewe members’ narratives about the festival, the material culture that they create for the parade, and the levels of performance that they engage in while parading. Central to my analysis is how krewe members understand the Tomato Art Festival as an expression of East Nashville identity.


Bibliography, Cheryl Hopson Jan 2023

Bibliography, Cheryl Hopson

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Bibliography of publications by Cheryl Hopson.


Bibliography, Kristi Branham Jan 2023

Bibliography, Kristi Branham

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Bibliography of publications by Kristi Branham.


Musical Legacy Projects (Fa 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2022

Musical Legacy Projects (Fa 1387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1387. Audio interviews conducted by WKU oral history students in spring 2022 for the South Central Kentucky Music Project, centering on musicians in Bowling Green and surrounding counties.


Cartoons (Mss 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2022

Cartoons (Mss 725), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 725. Editorial and other cartoons and illustrations drawn by various artists for American newspapers and other publications.


Ethnography Of Reading Comic Books, Azadeh Najafian Apr 2021

Ethnography Of Reading Comic Books, Azadeh Najafian

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis explores why adults read comic books. This research used the ethnographic method and interviewing eleven people, four women, seven male, as its primary source. Based on information and common themes gathered from interviews, I built this thesis into one introduction, three body chapters, and a conclusion.

In the first chapter, I argued that comics could function the same as myths and explained this function and related examples under the “mythic effect” name. In the second chapter, I discussed how my informants use reading comics as a means to escape their everyday lives and how sometimes this escapism carries …


Eleanor Clark Award, Robert Penn Warren Studies Oct 2020

Eleanor Clark Award, Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Book Review: “One Or A Multitude?”: The Plural Of Us: Poetry And Community In Auden And Others, Noah Simon Jampol Oct 2020

Book Review: “One Or A Multitude?”: The Plural Of Us: Poetry And Community In Auden And Others, Noah Simon Jampol

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Race And Son-Of-A-Bitch-Ism In Robert Penn Warren’S All The King’S Men, Mark Miller Oct 2020

Race And Son-Of-A-Bitch-Ism In Robert Penn Warren’S All The King’S Men, Mark Miller

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


“Pattern Of Meaning”: Symbolic Dynamism As A Formal Structure In The Waste Land And The Well Wrought Urn, Jane Forsyth Oct 2020

“Pattern Of Meaning”: Symbolic Dynamism As A Formal Structure In The Waste Land And The Well Wrought Urn, Jane Forsyth

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award, Robert Penn Warren Studies Oct 2020

Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award, Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Call For Papers 2021: Robert Penn Warren Circle, Robert Penn Warren Studies Oct 2020

Call For Papers 2021: Robert Penn Warren Circle, Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Ed Chapman: In Memoriam, Victor Strandberg Oct 2020

Ed Chapman: In Memoriam, Victor Strandberg

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Western Kentucky University Archives Of Folklore And Folklife Manual (Fa 1373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2020

Western Kentucky University Archives Of Folklore And Folklife Manual (Fa 1373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1373. Manual titled “Folk Speech Section of WKUAFF,” created to provide organization and conventions for the collection of student folk projects created by folk studies students for the WKU Archives of Folklore and Folklife or the Folklife Archives. The manual includes survey sheets with responses from a brief questionnaire about vocabulary, dialect, and linguistics across Kentucky. This collection also includes questionnaires from other student projects used to gather vocabulary about a particular subject, i.e. mules, quilting, folk songs, remedies, etc.


Hero: The Musical, Owen Mefford Apr 2020

Hero: The Musical, Owen Mefford

Gatton Academy Student Research Outcomes

Over the past year and a half, I, aided by my research mentor, have undertaken the process of writing the libretto for an original stage musical. The concept is an idea I have somewhat developed for years, that of a musical based on a spoof of the superhero genre and its many tropes. The musical follows Danny, a young college kid who has just moved to the big city and gains the power to freeze time. As he becomes a blossoming super hero, he must balance his romantic interest in his friend Sam, a reporter, with his new duties. Along …


Yone Noguchi And Miss Morning Glory: American Humor, Identity, And Cultural Criticism In The Works Of Yone Noguchi, Evan Connor Alston Apr 2020

Yone Noguchi And Miss Morning Glory: American Humor, Identity, And Cultural Criticism In The Works Of Yone Noguchi, Evan Connor Alston

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Yone Noguchi’s novels, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl and The American Letters of a Japanese Parlor-Maid, both published with the first decade of the twentieth century, have been the subject of study for scholars in the humanities for the past few decades. The research examines both novels in historical context and against his personal communications and his subsequently published works, understanding Noguchi not just as a Japanese immigrant but also a member of an American literary community. I compare the larger structing of the Diary to the works of his literary peers and mentors and demonstrate that understanding …


"O Lost Moon Sisters" : Feminist Revisions In Diane Di Prima's Loba, Chelsea Megan Mathes Apr 2020

"O Lost Moon Sisters" : Feminist Revisions In Diane Di Prima's Loba, Chelsea Megan Mathes

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In her master work, Loba, Diane di Prima revises a variety of traditionally malecentered narratives from a feminist viewpoint in the long tradition of feminist revision that is a cornerstone of Second Wave Feminism. This thesis examines five of the revisions of Christian, Jewish, and Greek stories present in Loba: The Virgin Mary, Eve, Lilith, Helen of Troy, and Persephone. Di Prima revises these stories to include the full— physical, spiritual, and emotional—experience of the woman, often from her own point of view, to give the woman agency over her own story and subvert the woman-as-object tradition present in male-authored …


Motions Like Sleep In Robert Penn Warren’S “Lullaby”, Cameron Fontes Feb 2020

Motions Like Sleep In Robert Penn Warren’S “Lullaby”, Cameron Fontes

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


“Where Inner And Outer Meet”: Dissociation And The Creative Process, Joseph Shoulders Feb 2020

“Where Inner And Outer Meet”: Dissociation And The Creative Process, Joseph Shoulders

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


Correspondence With The Season Of Autumn, Seth Nevin Feb 2020

Correspondence With The Season Of Autumn, Seth Nevin

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


Mary Ellen Miller: In Memoriam, Frank Steele Jan 2020

Mary Ellen Miller: In Memoriam, Frank Steele

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


James A. Grimshaw, Jr.: In Memoriam, William Bedford Clark Jan 2020

James A. Grimshaw, Jr.: In Memoriam, William Bedford Clark

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Melville’S Battle-Pieces And Warren’S Wilderness (Eleanor Clark Award Winner, 2017), Mary Cuff Jan 2020

Melville’S Battle-Pieces And Warren’S Wilderness (Eleanor Clark Award Winner, 2017), Mary Cuff

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Editorial Preface, Joan Romano Shifflett Jan 2020

Editorial Preface, Joan Romano Shifflett

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Tap For The Times: A Study Of Contemporary Tap Dance, Elise Wilham Jan 2020

Tap For The Times: A Study Of Contemporary Tap Dance, Elise Wilham

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Tap dance is an American art form that began with the blending of traditional dance styles from English and Irish immigrants and African slaves. Throughout the 20th century, tap dance developed many styles in response to cultural changes that took place. Contemporary tap dance emerged in the latter half of that century and continues developing today with the fusion of other dance genres and new technologies. This research examines tap dance history to create an understanding of how it developed through a historical lens and analyzes the current approaches applied to the artform along with the characteristics and creative processes …


Schottenfeld, Judith Dian (Fa 1309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Schottenfeld, Judith Dian (Fa 1309), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1309. Student folk studies project titled “Construction of the White Oak Basket, ”which includes an interview with Walter Logsdon about the traditional basket making process in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Project includes sheets with a brief description of each traditional practice, tool, and photo.


Waldrop, Melanie (Fa 1310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Waldrop, Melanie (Fa 1310), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1310. Student folk studies project titled “Basketmaking for Walter Logsdon: ‘A Way of Life,’” which includes two interviews with Walter Logsdon about the traditional basket making process in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Project includes sheets with a brief description of each traditional practice, tool, and photo.


Fekety, Steve (Fa 1311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Fekety, Steve (Fa 1311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1311. Student folk studies project titled “Basket Making,” about the traditional basket making process in Wax, Grayson County, Kentucky. Project includes sheets with a brief description of each traditional practice, illustration, material, tool, and/or photo.


Sadewasser, Judith K. "Judi" (Fa 1308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Sadewasser, Judith K. "Judi" (Fa 1308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 1308. Student folk studies project titled “The Folkways of Walter D. Logsdon: Basketmaker,” which includes an interview with Walter Logsdon about the traditional basket making process in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Project includes interview transcriptions along with sheets with a brief description of each traditional practice, tool, and photo.


The Sad Kitchen And Song Of Neon: Two Novellas, John Paul King Jul 2019

The Sad Kitchen And Song Of Neon: Two Novellas, John Paul King

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The Sad Kitchen, a work of magical realism, tells the story of a saintly woman named Helen. She opens an underground kitchen where people who feel guilty can come to be comforted and nurtured in the middle of the night. The story is, at its heart, a reflection on forgiveness. Song of Neon, also of the magical realist genre, is an existential work about a nurse named Avery and her husband, an owl house maker, named Saul. Their town, Milliard, is under a trance. Avery and Saul struggle with their respective identities in the quiet, vacuum the town has become.