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The Dissertation Committee for Susanne Elizabeth Shawyercertifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation:Radical Street Theatre and the Yippie Legacy:A Performance History of the Youth International Party, 1967-1968Committee:Jill Dolan, SupervisorPaul Bonin-RodriguezCharlotte CanningJanet DavisStacy Wolf
Radical Street Theatre and the Yippie Legacy:A Performance History of the Youth International Party, 1967-1968bySusanne Elizabeth Shawyer, B.A.; M.A.DissertationPresented to the Faculty of the Graduate School ofThe University of Texas at Austinin Partial Fulfillmentof the Requirementsfor the Degree ofDoctor of PhilosophyThe University of Texas at AustinMay, 2008
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Page 5 and 6: Kokai, Olivia Whitmer O’Hare, Tam
Page 7 and 8: organizational strategies of the an
Page 9 and 10: IntroductionThe Chicago Poster:Cont
Page 12: adical hipsters, or counterculture
Page 20: linguistic theory, the field of per
Page 23 and 24: The language of performance thus al
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Page 27 and 28: performative has the potential to e
Page 29 and 30: evolution using methodological and
Page 31 and 32: Realist, suddenly noticed that when
Page 33 and 34: Revolution for the Hell of It is a
Page 35 and 36: The Yippies’ politics are clear i
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Page 39 and 40: made up of many separate organizati
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Page 43 and 44: When they formed the Youth Internat
Page 45 and 46: Most of the dozen core Yippies were
Page 47 and 48: acknowledgment that her business sk
Page 49 and 50: The claim of millions of Yippies wa
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eports from the popular press, test
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Image of Yippie Chicago poster.47
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surround the Pentagon are a long wa
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the Conference for New Politics in
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Washington was no stranger to mass
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uilding in acts of civil disobedien
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had a history of civil disobedience
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the crowd into affinity groups by m
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Like Abbie Hoffman, Rubin was aware
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Krishna” and “Om” to their re
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Pentagon began its work for the wee
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A respectable horde of respectable
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that time was still expected to see
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It didn’t matter if there was dis
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democratic political-economic and c
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social activist Malcolm X, Communis
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The aesthetic of the New Left now t
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straight-laced emphasis on communit
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Unlike the young student politician
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on the improvised actions of variou
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society” by changing, not ignorin
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similar to the very same ones used
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scenery falls. The Yippies loved th
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unrest by the lower ranks of societ
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Don’t rely on words. Words are th
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writing to President Johnson from V
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wasn’t just their situation that
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freshly-shorn young men in army uni
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I also argue that blurring of life
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Armed with a budget of just $15.00
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ounced through the air above the cr
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they ran into again in Chicago when
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Yip-In moved into an unexpected sec
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Yippies had been publishing manifes
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experimental works. Like other New
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not Broadway, was the venue for pla
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adicalism of Off-Off-Broadway conte
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theater, and including it on their
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environment that pays special atten
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meaning or appreciate the aesthetic
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Since Happenings emerged from New Y
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that contrasted visual peaceful pro
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prominence of ordinary actions and
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The costumes of the Yip-In particip
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ecruit, several blocks from the hip
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free stores, or crash pads. In 1969
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The hippies and Yippies also used m
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from their weekday Establishment re
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perform the power of authority and
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commuters the actions and dress tha
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emotion and hope, like the “utopi
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Chapter ThreeThe Festival of Life:
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Double (1938). The Yippies used the
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anti-war views, and movement leader
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Republican candidate Richard Nixon;
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death, it seemed like Humphrey was
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American politicians. We’ll infil
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named themselves the Youth Internat
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if necessary, Mobe was unable to ge
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ut the Yippies’ signs supported a
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craze, offering a special section o
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efforts to bring performances to th
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commentary in the East Village Othe
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which Hoffman designated as ‘medi
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already in Chicago, and prepared to
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Even though many of the demonstrato
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with a fire-cracker throwing crowd
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Hilton to interview passing delegat
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political positions, merged to form
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protest against the order, rules, a
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experience the performance event wi
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The Battle of Michigan Avenue was a
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“It would take an inspired Artaud
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The letters in the Johnson Library
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watching” (Box 66). Korean War ve
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members who felt that the Yippies g
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Dismayed by his lack of action abou
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night of the Battle of Michigan Ave
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Chapter FourFlash Mobs: The Yippie
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that is, they were political only t
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as their primary political and cult
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1969, “Four Days of Rage” campa
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The Festival of Life and the ensuin
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The Yippies’ revolutionary action
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Glasgow, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Sydn
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and social conventions: flash mobs
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social behaviors, and the technolog
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organized by anyone with access to
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advantage of the dramaturgy of prot
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Yet the insider/outsider dynamic of
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List of AbbreviationsCOREFBIHUACLBJ
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Letter, Roger Light to the Presiden
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Telegram, Marjorie Satthoff to the
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Brown, Joe David, ed. The Hippies.
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Editorial. Chicago Tribune. 29 Aug.
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Higgins, Dick. “The Origin of the
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Karastamatis, John. “Don’t Star
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McMillian, John. “Garbage Guerril
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Rosenberg, Bernard. “Chicago: Blo
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Stewart, M. J. F. and Davis, Lisa.
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