The Education of a Circus Clown
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The Education of a Circus Clown

Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Education of a Circus Clown

Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes

About this book

2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association

2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society

The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life. Layering critical reflections of personal experience with connections to wider scholarship, Carlyon focuses on the work of clowning while interrogating what clowns actually do, rather than using them as stand-ins for conceptual ideas or as sentimental figures.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781137554819
eBook ISBN
9781137547439
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Come-in
  8. 1 Romance of the Red Nose
  9. 2 Bowl of Cherries
  10. 3 Rubber (Nose) Meets the Road
  11. 4 The Show Business
  12. 5 Love ‘Em & Leave ‘Em
  13. 6 Good Ol’ Days?
  14. 7 Rodeo Route
  15. 8 Spirit of St. Louis
  16. 9 Live
  17. 10 Stop Giggling
  18. 11 Clown Mask
  19. 12 So Far, So Good
  20. Appendix A: 1976 Clown College and 1977 Blue Unit Route
  21. Appendix B: A Brief Cultural and Idiosyncratic (Mostly Circus, Mainly American) Clowning History, as a Means of Providing Context for the Preceding Individual and Idiosyncratic (Mostly Circus, Mainly Evolving) Clown’s History
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index