Blood Brothers And Peace Pipes

Author : A. Dana Weber
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780299323509

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The first academic book-length study devoted to Karl May festivals, a specific type of Wild-West-themed festivals that take place in Germany every summer, Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes introduces readers to a performance world that is popular at home yet virtually unknown elsewhere. Named for Karl May (1842-1912), arguably the most famous German writer of adventure fiction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these thirteen or so festivals dramatize the exploits of May's most famous Wild West heroes, the Mescalero Apache Winnetou and his blood-brother, the German frontiersman Old Shatterhand, in entertaining theatre plays that use horses, other animals, stunts, and special effects on outdoors stages built specifically for them. Based on ethnographic studies of six of these events, Weber explores the most fundamental features of Karl May festivals: their "Indian" iconographies, fraternity narratives, hybrid genre form, borrowings from U.S. Wild West shows, and performative diversity. Her narrative accounts of these festivals and their interdisciplinary analysis based on German literature and culture studies, folklore, ethnography, and performance studies, theatre studies, and history guide readers through a specifically German performance world that is not an upshot of the American western, but a homegrown, traditional German version that evolved parallel with it. The composite image of Karl May festivals that emerges in the course of Weber's analysis is that of a unique type of popular event that expresses a deep yearning in German society, that for egalitarian and respectful cross-cultural interactions.

Author : Alina Dana Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Festivals
ISBN : 0299323536

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Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes by Alina Dana Weber Pdf

The first academic book-length study devoted to Karl May festivals, a specific type of Wild-West-themed festivals that take place in Germany every summer, Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes introduces readers to a performance world that is popular at home yet virtually unknown elsewhere. Named for Karl May (1842-1912), arguably the most famous German writer of adventure fiction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these thirteen or so festivals dramatize the exploits of May's most famous Wild West heroes, the Mescalero Apache Winnetou and his blood-brother, the German frontiersman Old Shatterhand, in entertaining theatre plays that use horses, other animals, stunts, and special effects on outdoors stages built specifically for them. Based on ethnographic studies of six of these events, Weber explores the most fundamental features of Karl May festivals: their "Indian" iconographies, fraternity narratives, hybrid genre form, borrowings from U.S. Wild West shows, and performative diversity. Her narrative accounts of these festivals and their interdisciplinary analysis based on German literature and culture studies, folklore, ethnography, and performance studies, theatre studies, and history guide readers through a specifically German performance world that is not an upshot of the American western, but a homegrown, traditional German version that evolved parallel with it. The composite image of Karl May festivals that emerges in the course of Weber's analysis is that of a unique type of popular event that expresses a deep yearning in German society, that for egalitarian and respectful cross-cultural interactions.

Author : A. Dana Weber
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800738973

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Former Neighbors, Future Allies? by A. Dana Weber Pdf

German studies scholars from various disciplines often use and reference ethnography, yet do not often present ethnography as a core methodology and research approach. Former Neighbors, Future Allies? emphasizes how German studies engages in methods and theories of ethnography. Through a variety of topics and from multiple perspectives including literature, folklore, history, sociology, and anthropology, this volume draws attention to how ethnography bridges transdisciplinary and international research in German studies.

Author : Janne Lahti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030532062

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German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World by Janne Lahti Pdf

This book contributes to global history by examining the connected histories of German and United States colonial empires from the early nineteenth century to the Nazi era. It looks at multiple and multidirectional flows, transfers, and circulations of ideas, people, and practices as Germany and the US were embedded in, and created by, an interconnected world of empires. This relationship was not exceptional, but emblematic of the diverse entanglements that created colonial globality. Colonial entanglements between Germany and the United States took on many forms, but these shared and intersecting histories have been underanalyzed. Traditionally, Germany and the United States have been understood to have taken, respectively, an authoritarian and liberal path into modernity. But there is no neat dichotomy, as the contributors to this book illustrate. There are many more similarities than have previously been appreciated – and they are the result of multilayered entanglements made visible via conquest, settler societies, racialization, and rule of difference. Building on present historiographies of empires, colonialism, and globalization, this book introduces new analytical possibilities for examining these two relatively understudied empires alongside each other, as well as at their intersections. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Katrin Horn,Leopold Lippert,Ilka Saal,Pia Wiegmink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000433401

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American Cultures as Transnational Performance by Katrin Horn,Leopold Lippert,Ilka Saal,Pia Wiegmink Pdf

This book investigates transnational processes through the analytic lens of cultural performance. Structured around key concepts of performance studies––commons, skills, and traces––this edited collection addresses the political, normative, and historical implications of cultural performances beyond the limits of the (US) nation-state. These three central aspects of performance function as entryways to inquiries into transnational processes and allow the authors to shift the discussion away from text-centered approaches to intercultural encounters and to bring into focus the dynamic field that opens up between producer, art work, context, setting, and audience in the moment of performance as well as in its afterlife. The chapters provide fresh, performance-based approaches to notions of transcultural mobility and circulation, transnational cultural experience and knowledge formation, transnational public spheres, and identities’ rootedness in both specific local places and diasporic worlds beyond the written word. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of American studies, performance studies, and transnational studies

Author : Stephan Ehrig,Benjamin Schaper,Elizabeth Ward
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805390558

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Entertaining German Culture by Stephan Ehrig,Benjamin Schaper,Elizabeth Ward Pdf

Audiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on German’s problematic past. Entertaining German Culture explores this radical shift, building on recent research into transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and external cultural reabsorption is taking place through areas of mutually assimilating cultural exchange such as streaming services, an increasingly international film market, and the import and export of Anglo-American media formats.

Author : A. Dana Weber ,Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Theater
ISBN : 9783643910578

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Performativity - Life, Stage, Screen by A. Dana Weber ,Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland Pdf

"Performativity" refers to the emergent, ambiguous, and unexpected dimensions of any performance in the social, political, and artistic arena. The volume presents case studies of performativity in: linguistic translation; the city as stage of political performances; the theatricality of courtrooms and documentary film; contemporary theatre's political inheritance; and the historically punctured fabric of festival time. Its contributions to performance and theatre studies, sociology and folklore, and German studies, reflect this concept in a transdisciplinary and transatlantic dialogue.

Author : Christine Bold
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300257052

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Vaudeville Indians on Global Circuits, 1880s-1930s by Christine Bold Pdf

Uncovering hidden histories of Indigenous performers in vaudeville and in the creation of western modernity and popular culture Drawing from little-known archives, Christine Bold brings to light forgotten histories of Indigenous performers in vaudeville and, by extension, popular culture and modernity. Vaudeville was both a forerunner of modern mass entertainment and a rich site of popular Indigenous performance and notions of Indianness at the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the stories of artists Native to Turtle Island (North America) performing across the continent and around the world, Bold illustrates a network of more than 300 Indigenous and Indigenous-identifying entertainers, from Will Rogers to Go-won-go Mohawk to Princess Chinquilla, who upend vaudeville's received history. These fascinating stories cumulatively reveal vaudeville as a space in which the making of western modernity both denied and relied on living Indigenous presence, and in which Indigenous artists negotiated agency and stereotypes through vaudeville performance.

Author : Stephan Ehrig,Benjamin Schaper,Elizabeth Ward
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805390572

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Between the Forest and the Road by Stephan Ehrig,Benjamin Schaper,Elizabeth Ward Pdf

Audiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on Germany’s problematic past. Entertaining German Culture explores this radical shift, building on recent research into transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and external cultural reabsorption is taking place through areas of mutually assimilating cultural exchange such as streaming services, an increasingly international film market, and the import and export of Anglo-American media formats.

Author : Tamar Jeffers McDonald,Frances A. Kamm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351779371

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Gothic Heroines on Screen by Tamar Jeffers McDonald,Frances A. Kamm Pdf

Gothic Heroines on Screen explores the translation of the literary Gothic heroine on screen, the potential consequences of these adaptations, and contemporary interpretations of the form. Each chapter illuminates the significance of this moving image mediation, relating its screen topics to their various historical, social, and geographical moments of production, while maintaining a focus on the key figure of the investigating woman. Many chapters – perhaps inescapably – delve into the point of adaptation: the Bluebeard story and du Maurier’s Rebecca as two key examples. Moving beyond the Old Dark House that frequently forms both the Gothic heroine’s backdrop and her area of investigation, some chapters examine alternative locations and their impact on the Gothic heroine, some leave behind the marital thriller to explore what happens when the Gothic meets other genres, such as comedy, while others travel away from the usual Anglo-American contexts to European ones. Throughout the collection, the Gothic heroine’s representation is explored within the medium, which brings together image, movement, and sound, and this technological fact takes on varied significance. What does remain constant, however, is the emphasis on the longevity, significance, and distinctiveness of the Gothic heroine in screen culture.

Author : Jan-Christopher Horak,Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781805395379

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Enchanted by Cinema by Jan-Christopher Horak,Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert Pdf

William Thiele is remembered today as the father of the sound film operetta with seminal classics such as Drei von der Tankstelle (1930). While often considered among the most accomplished directors of Late Weimar cinema, as an Austrian Jew he was vilified during the onset of the Nazi regime in 1933 and fled to the United States where he continued making films until the end of his career in 1960. Enchanted by Cinema closely examines the European musical film pioneer’s work and his cross-cultural perspective across forty years of filmography in Berlin and Hollywood to account for his popularity while discussing issues of ethnicity, exile, comedy, music, gender, and race.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1478 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3602925

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : IND:30000088172535

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California Indian Oversight Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Committe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110714438

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New Mexico Indian Oversight Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Committe Pdf

Author : Patrick DeVine
Publisher : English Factory the
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0911349014

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Blood Brothers by Patrick DeVine Pdf