TY - BOOK ID - 11352981 TI - The Education of a Circus Clown : Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes PY - 2016 SN - 1137554819 1349575070 113754743X PB - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Science (General). KW - Fine Arts - General KW - Art, Architecture & Applied Arts KW - Clowns KW - Circus performers KW - Training of KW - Carlyon, David. KW - Performers, Circus KW - Circus workers KW - Entertainers KW - Fools and jesters KW - Comedians KW - Performing arts. KW - Ethnography. KW - Theater-History. KW - United States-History. KW - Arts. KW - Performing Arts. KW - Theatre History. KW - US History. KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Occidental KW - Arts, Western KW - Fine arts KW - Humanities KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Show business KW - Arts KW - Performance art KW - Theater—History. KW - United States—History. KW - Arts, Primitive KW - Theater. KW - Ethnology. KW - Theater KW - United States KW - Theatre and Performance Arts. KW - Dramatics KW - Histrionics KW - Professional theater KW - Stage KW - Theatre KW - Performing arts KW - Acting KW - Actors KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11352981 AB - 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. ER -