Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Scott! Her book, T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners’ Booking Association in Jazz-Age America, has won the 2023 George Freedley Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association for exemplary work in the field of live theater.
The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.