Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0555961

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0555961

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Australian Stage Comedians 1915-1930: Configuring a Comic National Identity. This project aims to make a major contribution to Australian cultural history by examining the origins of what has often been described as the distinctive Australian sense of humour. While elements of this national characteristic emerged in colonial times, including an emphasis on stoicism, self-deprecation and the contradictions of existence (e.g. in Steele Rudd's and Henry Lawson's stories), this project will increase community awareness of how stage comedians during and after the First World War focused these tendencies into a distinctive emphasis on the comedy of everyday experience, and on maintaining a tough-minded optimism in adversity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2005

End Date: 31-12-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $98,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | History: Australian | Biography | Drama, Theatre And Performance Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

National identity | The performing arts (incl. music, theatre and dance)

Other Keywords

Biography | Drama, Theatre And Performance Studies | Historical Studies | History: Australian | National identity | The performing arts (incl. music, theatre and dance) | Understanding Australia'S Past

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