Gardair2013
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| BibType | PHDTHESIS |
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| Author(s) | Colombine Gardair |
| Title | Assembling Audiences |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Street performers, street theatre, busking |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| School | Queen Mary University of London |
| Type | PhD |
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Abstract
Street performers have to create and manage their own performance events. This makes street performance an ideal type of situation for studying how an audience is assembled and sustained in practice. This thesis uses detailed video-based ethnographic analysis to investigate these processes in street performances in Covent Garden, London. Drawing on the performance literature, the role of the physical structure of the environment, the arrangement of physical objects within the environment and the physical placement of people are all examined. The argument of the thesis is that these analyses alone are insufficient to explain how an audience is established or sustained. Rather, an audience is an ongoing interactional achievement built up through a structured sequence of interactions between performers, passers-by and audience members. Through these interactions performers get people\textquoterights
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