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Performances studies

Summary

Ian Maxwell is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts School of Drama, where he majored in Directing. Subsequent to that training, he embarked upon academic work at the University of Sydney, where he completed his PhD - an ethnography of Hip Hop culture in the suburbs of Sydney in the 1990s - in 1997.

Supervisor

Associate Professor Ian Maxwell.

Research location

Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Art, Communication and English (SACE)

Synopsis

Research interests

  • Popular music and subcultures
  • Phenomenology and Theories of Acting
  • Sociology of the Field of Performance Making
  • Australian Theatre and Performance History 1968-1974
  • Theatre Directing
  • Sport and Performance

 

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Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3082