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<p class="MsoNormal">Please forward: Second Call for Submissions for
an upcoming volume of <i style="">Performing Arts Resources</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-style: normal;">To: historians and archivists of theatre,
drama, performance
studies, music, dance, and cinema</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Re:<span style=""> </span>Call for
Submissions for a Volume of <i style="">Performing
Arts Resources</i> dedicated to Brooks McNamara to be titled "A Tyranny
of
Documents:<span style=""> </span>The Performance
Historian as Film Noir Detective"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For a forthcoming volume of <i style="">Performing
Arts Resources</i>, we are looking for submissions focusing
on your experience with a 'tyrannical' document from the archive--a
document
that would not allow you to draw an otherwise apparent conclusion, that
flew in
the face of the evidence, or that carried embedded in it some aspect of
the
event that was incomprehensible, no matter how much additional research
was
brought to bear on it.<span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Proposals should examine one document--and one
only--that
has been particularly troublesome to the researcher.<span style=""> </span>The
emphasis should be on the work of the historian or archivist
as detective in the archive, and on the difficult balance sought
between
respect for documentary evidence, the need to generate significance
from it,
and the natural-but-dangerous tendency to smooth out the rough edges of
evidence.<span style=""> </span>Joint submissions by
librarians/archivists and researchers discussing their relationship
will also
be considered.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If the historian is a detective, the model is
sometimes less
Hercule Poirot than a film noir gumshoe, who <span style=""
lang="EN-CA">can’t quite realize the implications of the mystery, but
who can’t stop
following the clues.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This volume of <i style="">Performing
Arts Resources</i> will be dedicated to Brooks McNamara, <i style="">in
memoriam</i> -- former President of the Theatre Library Association,
Founding Director of the Shubert Archive, Professor of Performance
Studies at
NYU, a pioneer in the serious study of popular performance in North
America,
and a much admired teacher and mentor.<span style="">
</span>Brooks was a gumshoe of the first order.<span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Those interested in contributing to this volume
should send
an email with a brief (no more than 200 word) proposal to Stephen
Johnson, Director,
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto, by email
attachment
at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:stephen.johnson@utoronto.ca">stephen.johnson@utoronto.ca</a>
.<span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deadline:<span style=""> </span>15
June 2010 for contact; if accepted, 30 Sept 2010 for submission.<span
style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Length of final submissions will be 3,000 words
(10 pages),
allowing for a greater number of briefer entries into this volume.<span
style=""> </span>We hope to publish images of documents
wherever possible, and will assist in rights and permissions research.<span
style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="">Performing Arts
Resources</i> is published by the Theatre Library Association</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tla-online.org/">http://www.tla-online.org/</a></p>
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<div>Stephen Johnson, Director</div>
<div>Graduate Centre for Study of Drama</div>
<div>University of Toronto</div>
<div>Koffler Student Centre</div>
<div>214 College Street, 3rd Floor</div>
<div>Toronto, Ontario M5T 2Z9</div>
<div>416-978-7982</div>
<div>416-971-1378 (fax)</div>
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href="mailto:director.graddrama@utoronto.ca">director.graddrama@utoronto.ca</a></div>
<div>Centre Website: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.graddrama.utoronto.ca">www.graddrama.utoronto.ca</a></div>
<div>Director's Research: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/%7Ew3minstr/index.html">www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3minstr/index.html</a></div>
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