- Title
- The Circus as an Agent of Transculturation
- Creator
- Arrighi, Gillian
- Relation
- Manegenkunste: Zirkus als asthetisches Modell p. 135-152
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783839441480-009
- Publisher
- transcript Verlag
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Ideas about the ability of the circus to influence cultural change or introduce new trends, either through business operations, aesthetic choices, or the use of innovative technologies, have yet to be extensively explored in the recent interdisciplinary field of circus studies. This chapter conceptualises the circus as an agent of transcultura-tion in Australia at the turn of the 20th century, arguing that circus trends from else-where, and visiting circuses from other regions of the world, were pivotal transcul-tural agents in the development of the circus and popular culture more generally in Australia. The mobility that has historically underpinned the circus’ restlessness across geo-political borders and language barriers is, in this chapter, theorised using lenses that accommodate the recent academic turn in global theatre histories,1 schol-arship that acknowledges the circus’ intrinsic alignment with the narratives of mo-dernity,2 and the theoretical apparatus proposed by Greenblatt et al.,3 customarily re-ferred to as mobility studies, that seeks to understand the »physical, infrastructural, and institutional« processes through which culture is transmitted across space and time.
- Subject
- influence; cultural change; Australia; global theatre histories
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1445765
- Identifier
- uon:42665
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783839441480
- Language
- eng
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