Contacts:
All of the following ‘guests’ have enthusiastically provided permission to share their email addresses with you, as a class, in case you have any follow up questions, or want to talk about ‘their’ subject further–or, perhaps, some day, need some information that will help you with something you’re performing or producing or writing. You never know when you might have need of expertise in…something you didn’t know you’d need expertise in. There is no end date to this offer, though there may be an end date to the email address….
Sanja Vodovnik on World’s Fairs and Performances of the Future — sanja.vodovnik@mail.utoronto.ca
Jessica Watkin on Accessibility, and the Performance of Disability — jessica.watkin@mail.utoronto.ca
Cam Crookston on Drag — cameron.crookston@mail.utoronto.ca
Julia Matias on Neo-Burlesque — julia.matias@mail.utoronto.ca
Jessica Thorp on Nerdlesque — jessica.thorp@utoronto.ca
Christine Mazumdar on Competitive Gymnastics and Extreme Physicality — christine.mazumdar@mail.utoronto.ca
Seika Boye on Dance and Race — seika.boye@utoronto.ca
Mark Turner on First Nations Performance — mark.turner@mun.ca
Gabe Levine on Puppetry — glevine@glendon.yorku.ca
Natalie Alvarez on Tourism and Immersive Performance — natalie.alvarez@ryerson.ca
Supplementary Reading:
You will find below a few works that may be of value to you as you work on your final project, or afterward. Nothing here is required reading (or viewing)–that’s why they’re here and not on another page. To be clear–there are a lot of works published out there on almost any subject. You can navigate that yourself. This is just a sampler.
Popular Culture:
See John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture (Unwin Hyman, 1989). Here is Chapter 3:
FiskeArticle
Micro-histories and Performance Ethnographies (samples):
See a wide variety of these kinds of projects in A Tyranny of Documents: The Historian as Film Noir Detective (TLA): Here is the whole book: TyrannyofDocs FullText
Giovanni Levi, ‘On Microhistory,’ in New Perspectives in Historiography, edited by Peter Burke (PennStateUP, 2001). See below for the chapter about ‘the exceptional normal’:
Levi Microhistory4
Oral Histories/Interviews:
There are several organizations devoted to this kind of research–but for your purposes, you might want to look at this list, from the Oral History Association:
Best Practices of Oral History_principles and standards april 09-1.doc – OHA_principles_standards
Here are a few additional documents related to some of the classes, courtesy our guests:
The Show Business:
From On With The Show, by Robert Toll: (OUP) [A popular work, and there is more out there, more scholarly. But this is an introduction]
Chapter Two, on P. T. Barnum: Barnum by Toll (r)
Chapter Ten, on Vaudeville: Vaudeville by Toll(r)
See also American Vaudeville as Ritual, by Albert McLean (UKentuckyP, 1965)
Blackface Minstrelsy as a Popular Performance:
Here is Chapter Four of Robert Toll’s book: MinstrelShow Toll(R)
Here is a bibliography with works about blackface minstrelsy. On another page of this site, there are further web documents: From The Juba Project
Drag:
Babuscio, Jack. “Camp and the Gay Sensibility” In Bergman, David. Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality. Amherst: University of Masachusetts Press, 1993. 19-38.
Babuscio- Camp and the Gay Sensibility
Burlesque:
Dodds, Sherill. “‘Naughty but Nice’: Re-articulations of Value in Neo-Burlesque Striptease'” in Dancing on the Canon: Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance, 105-135. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Dodds-2011-NaughtyButNice
Nally, Claire. “Cross Dressing and the Grrrly Shows: Twenty-first Century Burlesque,” in Naked Exhibitionism: Gendered Performance and Public Exposure, edited by Claire Nally and Angela Smith, 109-136. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013.
Nally-2013-CrossDressing-GrrrlyShows
Weldon, Jo. The Burlesque Handbook. It! Books, 2010.
Although not specifically related to the class, since it came up, Mark Turner forwarded these two links:
The Origins of 2001 A Space Odyssey: Here is The Universe by Roman Kroitor and Colin Low: https://www.nfb.ca/film/universe/
The Origins of IMAX: And what is often refereed to as the first imax film, the Labyrinth: https://www.nfb.ca/film/in_the_labyrinth/
Performance and Popular Culture 