Cashbaugh-Dissertation-2016
Copyright by Sean Francis Cashbaugh 2016 The Dissertation Committee for Sean Francis Cashbaugh Certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: A Cultural History Beneath the Left: Politics, Art, and the Emergence of the Underground During the Cold War Committee: Randolph Lewis, Supervisor Brian A. Bremen John Hartigan Steven D. Hoelscher Donna Kornhaber Julia Mickenberg A Cultural History Beneath the Left: Politics, Art, and the Emergence of the Underground During the Cold War by Sean Francis Cashbaugh, B.A.; M.A. Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin May 2016 Dedication To Cait, Tuli, and whoever comes next. Acknowledgements Rapper Kool A.D. (otherwise known as Victor Vasquez) inadvertently but aptly summarized the experience of writing a dissertation when he said, “I suck very much sometimes and other times I think, ‘Yo, I’m the f---ing man.’” Thankfully, I have had a large community of scholars, teachers, mentors, friends, and family that have made the latter far more frequent than the former as I completed this project. They have reassured me in the face of complex intellectual questions, asinine bureaucracies, the tedium of research, cross-country moves, and everything else one confronts as a late-twenty- something building a life and career while writing what is essentially the rough draft of a book that is far too long. First and foremost, I need to thank Randolph Lewis, the chair of my dissertation committee.
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