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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"pageantry"”.
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Politics, patriotism, pageantry : performing power at the Texas Cotton Palace, 1910-1930.
… of the community elite through the allegorical pageantry and exclusivity of the Queen's Ball.
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Playing the Crowd: Mass Pageantry in Europe and the United States, 1905-1935
… a theatrical and political genre I call "mass pageantry," which emerged in England, the United States, Russia and Germany during the early twentieth century. Performed out-of-doors, often with thousands of amateur local performers in costume, these vast mytho-historical spectacles emerged from …
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“Princes upon Stages”: the Theatricalization of Monarchy in the Reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1569
… dissertation will examine the growing use of pageantry utilized by sixteenth-century rulers, the legacy of the English queens who preceded Elizabeth, Elizabeth’s coronation procession, the evolution of the royal court, the performance of plays and masques at court, and the queen’s annual …
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"The Gate City": artistry and identity in an American historical pageant
… movement of early twentieth century historical pageantry in America as well as Nebraska's history of struggle for economic and political stability. Through contextual analysis, surviving photographs, newspaper accounts of the time and the original manuscript this thesis explores how the creators …
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Reforming nationhood : England in the literature of the Tudor imperial age, 1509-1553
… two chapters explore the Golden Age motif in pageantry produced for the joint London Entry of Henry VIII and Charles V (1522), and for the Entry of Anne Boleyn in 1533. Chapter Two concludes that the function of the 1533 Entry as propaganda for the Royal Supremacy was undermined by the …
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Wah Eye Nuh See Heart Nuh Leap: Queer Marronage In The Jamaican Dancehall
… (which retains African uses of marronage and pageantry as personhood), and musicscape (which deploys homophobia to demand heterosexuality), in order to tease out the complexities of Caribbean sexualities and queer practices. I couple these legal narratives and geographies with interviews and …
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Making the West End modern: space, architecture and shopping in 1930s London.
… and decoration to facades, and participation in pageantry. The study thus revisits retail spectacle, an important strand within histories of shopping and of the urban, looking at how established strategies were adapted and developed to stage modernity, emerging consumer cultures and the West End …
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Music and power at the English court, 1575-1624
… house entertainments, royal entries and civic pageantry. It explores the changing discourse of music's place within court entertainments, and the ways that different types of entertainment present music. Music's associations with court power are tested through an examination of the ways in …
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Archidrome
… specific politic, but they can only act as such: pageantry. The focus of this thesis is the layer of discursive and psychological strata, the psychic skin, which is termed Faciality. The project is to graft this virtual skin for analysis and demonstrate how it builds the brand of a built project, …
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Decoding Robin Hood: Towards a Palimpsestic Method - Reading Layers of Meaning through the Costumes of the Cinematic Robin Hoods, 1938-2018
… from medieval folk tales and ballads through pageantry and plays with a green-clad hero who lives in the forest, the cultural presence of Robin Hood has become fully mythical further aided by his international appearance in cinema. It has informed and provided limits for cultural language …
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The perception of illumination : the phenomenological dimensions of natural light in the making of an urban sanctuary
… is to (re)imagine the environment: to behold the pageantry and reverence for the potent qualities of natural light and the orderly passage of time as dictated by the movement of the planets, stars, earth, sun and moon. The program for the design intervention addresses the fundamental need for …
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Training Tastes : A Relationship Approach to Food, Taste and the Senses through the Lens of the Slow Food Movement.
… practice, I introduce the notion of sensory pageantry and evaluate several tensions and contestations around speedier and slower modalities of experiencing taste. Thus, I demonstrate that training techniques of remembering, repeating, rebalancing and fine-tuning hone taste into a skill and …
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Training tastes : a relationship approach to food, taste and the senses through the lens of the Slow Food Movement
… practice, I introduce the notion of sensory pageantry and evaluate several tensions and contestations around speedier and slower modalities of experiencing taste. Thus, I demonstrate that training techniques of remembering, repeating, rebalancing and fine-tuning hone taste into a skill and …
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Musicians in Space
… situation is seen as being integral to the pageantry of the performative experience, I argue that the fixity of the spatial and social arrangement has done little to support the allencompassing and heterarchical aspirations that had once been a noted rallying cry of the free improviser. The …
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The Residents of the British East India Company at Indian royal courts, c. 1798-1818
… Europe; controversies surrounding political pageantry and conspicuous consumption; ambivalent relationships between Residents and their Indian state secretaries; and the Residents’ embroilment in royal family feuds. Ultimately, this dissertation concludes that the imposition of imperial …
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Heritage, letters, and public history : Dorothea Fairbridge and loyal unionist cultural initiatives in South Africa, circa 1890-1930'
… pursued in terms of the period genre of the 'new pageantry' where national and ethnic identity are performed. This is compared with mural painting in public buildings, and a case study is made of the 1908 Quebec Tercentenary pageant and the 1910 South African Union pageant. The study of Fairbridge …
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The Rathole Archipelago : industrial pioneers in a hammershop of hell, reflections of the I.W.W. in fiction.
… the ideas conveyed through the songs, poems, and pageantry written by Wobblies--as IWW members were nicknamed. Also, this chapter surveys works of fiction that feature Wobblies and explores how the character of the individual Wobbly is used and what he represents in various novels. The third and …
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'Serious Lots': Chance and Choice in Early Modern English Literature
… period to the late Jacobean, from early modern pageantry to drama, science, theology and prose, it charts the emergence of a number of diverse perspectives on how to use chance, and how to represent it: from a symbol of the perils of political life in William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, to …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… in Solomonic exceptionalism. In both public pageantry and private court performances, James was explicitly associated with Solomon and the question of magical exceptionalism was particularly pertinent in the wake of his own book condemning magic, *Daemonologie* (1597). Plays like *The Puritan …
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Great bellies and boy actors: pregnancy plays on the Stuart stage, 1603-1642
… William Rowley, and Thomas Middleton. Finally, Pageantry and Pregnancy: The Enduring Influence of Blackness, examines two late pregnancy plays—Middleton’s The Nice Valour (1622) and Thomas Heywood’s Love’s Mistress, or the Queen’s Masque (1634). These two plays hearken back to Queen Anna of …
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