The Education of a Circus Clown: Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes

by David Carlyon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137554819
• ISBN13: 9781137554819
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"