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Author : Robert Bogdan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226227436

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Freak Show by Robert Bogdan Pdf

This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he describes in detail the flimflam artistry behind the shows, the promoters and the audiences, and the gradual evolution of public opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks were not born, Bogdan reveals; they were manufactured by the amusement world, usually with the active participation of the freaks themselves. Many of the "human curiosities" found fame and fortune, until the ascent of professional medicine transformed them from marvels into pathological specimens.

Author : Beth Macy
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316337564

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Truevine by Beth Macy Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? TRUEVINE is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.

Author : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253212456

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Africans on Stage by Bernth Lindfors Pdf

Ethnological show business has a very long history in Europe. It became increasingly common after advances in navigational technology put Europeans in touch with human communities all over the globe.In the 19th and 20th centuries some of the most interesting individuals and groups exhibited in Europe and America came from Africa. What did the average spectator think of such representatives from the "Dark Continent"? If the display was a dramatic one -- that is, if the Africans sang, danced or acted out events -- what opinions did observers form of them as performers and as human beings? How was the spectacle staged, and who organized and managed the show? How authentic were these performances? Where did the performers actually come from? What notions about Africa and Africans were these exhibitions meant to convey?Africans on Stage is a book about how these three groups -- players, promoters, and spectators -- helped to shape European and American perceptions of Africans. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226149202

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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by Peter De Vries Pdf

The classic American coming of age novel of a precocious young man and the lessons learned from his tutor by “a masterly entertainer and social satirist” (The New York Times). It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles. A tutor is hired, and this "modern Hester Prynne" offers Anthony lessons that ultimately free him from eighth grade and situate her on the cusp of the American sexual revolution. In Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Peter De Vries finds the perfect vehicle for his eridute wit in Anthony’s restless adolescent voice. Demonstrating a fascination with both language and female anatomy, Anthony’s pitch-perfect narration propels this satirical coming of age tale through theological debates and quandaries both dermatological and ethical, while soaring on the De Vriesian hallmark of scrambling conventional wisdom for comic effect.

Author : ZENER
Publisher : ZENER
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Autocad by ZENER Pdf

This book is designed to Train Beginners with Zero knowledge in Autocad. It will Establish the basic Concept of Autocad.

Author : Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer
Publisher : Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer
Page : 6161 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Great Dictionary English - Finnish by Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer Pdf

This dictionary contains around 80,000 English terms with their Finnish translations, making it one of the most comprehensive books of its kind. It offers a wide vocabulary from all areas as well as numerous idioms. The terms are translated from English to Finnish. If you need translations from Finnish to English, then the companion volume The Great Dictionary Finnish - English is recommended.

Author : Leslie Cabarga
Publisher : North Light Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015058276166

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Logo, Font & Lettering Bible by Leslie Cabarga Pdf

This book is a hands-on guide to the entire process of making logos and fonts and even icons, all of which, essentially, start with the ability to draw letterforms. The intent of the book, in fact, is to enable the user to end reliance on "OPF" (other people's fonts) and learn to draw your own custom logos, fonts and lettering! Logo, Font & Lettering Bible is unique in that it teaches you how to create logos and fonts from scratch using traditional tools as well as the computer programs Adobe Illustrator and Fontographer (plus a bit about FontLab). The book provides all the traditional rules and tips about letter formation relating to proportion, shaping, balance, spacing, composition and actually teaches five different methods of drawing letters on computer using bezier curves. There has never been a book like this one that goes into so much detail about drawing letters and takes such a fun and irreverent approach while doing so. The book is also full of inspiration and analysis of tons of great examples of vintage and current lettering from old manuscripts to graffiti. Logo, Font & Lettering Bible also shows you how to create fancy drop shadows and other type effects. And finally, the last section provides straight talk on the business of being a logo and font designer, from advertising your work and pricing to dealing with difficult clients (aren't they all?).

Author : Bernth Lindfors
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299301644

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Early African Entertainments Abroad by Bernth Lindfors Pdf

By exploring the representations of Africans in circuses, plays, and exhibits in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and America, Bernth Lindfors reveals how these performances served to reinforce American and European prejudices.

Author : Ilisa Barbash
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873654098

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Where the Roads All End by Ilisa Barbash Pdf

Where the Roads All End tells the remarkable story of an American family’s expeditions to the Kalahari Desert in the 1950s. Raytheon founder Laurence Marshall and his family recorded the lives of the last remaining hunter-gatherers, the so-called Bushmen, in what is now recognized as one of the most important anthropology ventures in Africa.

Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418263

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Bushmen by Alan Barnard Pdf

A comprehensive and fascinating account of all the major groups of southern African hunter-gatherers.

Author : A. K. Das
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0070158045

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Metallurgy of Failure Analysis by A. K. Das Pdf

By analyzing failures of both process and design, this book serves as a valuable reference for those working in the areas of quality assurance, design engineering, metallurgy and materials. There are remedial measures for corrosion, overload, fatigue and wear; and case studies of problems.

Author : Neils Heiberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Dogs
ISBN : NYPL:33333219848096

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White-ear and Peter by Neils Heiberg Pdf

Author : Robert J. Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Denver African Expedition
ISBN : UOM:49015002656206

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Picturing Bushmen by Robert J. Gordon Pdf

Gordon (anthropology, U. of Vermont) describes the expedition 16 Denver businessmen sponsored to make their city famous by bringing back a man and women who represented the missing link between humans and the lower animals. He presents the photographs that were nearly the only result of the effort, and interprets what they were intended to portray to their creator and his audience. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : John Smiley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781612740492

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How I taught Katy Perry (and others) to program in JavaScript by John Smiley Pdf

An Introductory text on JavaScript. Javascript is a browser language supported by all major Internet Browsers. The easiest technical book you'll ever read. Open it up and see for yourself. Join Professor Smiley's JavaScriptclass as he teaches essential skills in programming, coding and more. Using a student-instructor conversational format, this book starts at the very beginning with crucial programming fundamentals. You'll quickly learn how to identify customer needs so you can create an application that achieves programming objectives---just like experienced programmers. By identifying clear client goals, you'll learn important programming basics---like how computers view input and execute output based on the information they are given---then use those skills to develop real-world applications. Participate in this one-of-a-kind classroom experience with Katy Perry and other musical stars and see why Professor Smiley is renowned for making learning fun and easy.

Author : Fred Lavner
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781312972094

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Off The Top Of Fred's Head by Fred Lavner Pdf

Boomerist Fred Lavner is a funny guy with a lot to say about almost everything. People that piss him off. Bad customer service. Outrageous rules and regulations. Food labeling. Pretentious restaurants. High costs of living and dying. School teachers behaving badly. Political incorrectness. Not being able to find something to watch on 900 cable TV channels. Keeping up with celebutards. Getting out of jury duty. Popping off about internet pop up ads. Making sense of chocolate farts and other delights. Lavner's got a funny way of looking at things!