Posted 8/10/2003 11:07:15 PM by Editor
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Sunday, August 10, 2003 - San Antonio, Texas
The Thirty-Fourth Annual Convention of The Popular Culture Association & The Twenty-Sixth Annual Convention of The American Culture Association will take place April 7-10 2004 Marriott Rivercenter Hotel San Antonio
San Antonio, TX USA -- The Thirty-Fourth Annual Convention of The Popular Culture Association & The Twenty-Sixth Annual Convention of The American Culture Association will take place April 7-10 2004 Marriott Rivercenter Hotel San Antonio This will be the eighth meeting of the Popular Culture Association Circuses and Circus Culture interest group. We invite papers that explore the past and present of circus as an art, as a craft and as a unique form of popular culture. Circus, as a continuously evolving tradition of live entertainment, lends itself to scholarship form many perspectives.
Some of our previous papers dealt with –
- The Clown as Trickster?:
- Dan Rice, 19th Century Circus, Twentieth Century Myth
- Historic themes in Ringing Brothers Spectacles
- West Meets East: The Western Impact on Traditonal Chinese Circus From Ubangis to Ringmaster:
- Africana Presence under the Big Top
- Animals, Entrepeneurs and the Market
- Circus Related Crime and Deviance
- Making Toby Tyler Politically Correct
- Images of Female Circus Performers in Painting and Popular Culture
Our panels have been diverse and fascinating. We invite you to join us. Send a fifty word abstract of your paper by September 20, 2003 to PCA Circuses and Circus Culture Chair: Robert Sugarman P.O. Box 407 Shaftsbury, VT 05262 Phone: (802) 447-7179 FAX: (802) 447-2611 Email: bobsugar@sover.net
Editor's note: This link will take your to the PCA/ACA home page: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~pcaaca/
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