Four White Horses And A Brass Band

Author : Laura Browder
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807860601

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Slippery Characters by Laura Browder Pdf

In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted identities by writing themselves into new ethnicities. Significantly, notes Browder, these ersatz autobiographies have tended to appear at flashpoints in American history: in the decades before the Civil War, when immigration laws and laws regarding Native Americans were changing in the 1920s, and during the civil rights era, for example. Examining the creation and reception of such works from the 1830s through the 1990s--against a background ranging from the abolition movement and Wild West shows to more recent controversies surrounding blackface performance and jazz music--Browder uncovers their surprising influence in shaping American notions of identity.

Author : Violet McNeal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Medicine shows
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041752077

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Four White Horses and a Brass Band by Violet McNeal Pdf

Author : Brooks McNamara
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Medicine shows
ISBN : 161703729X

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Step right up by Brooks McNamara Pdf

Here is the fascinating though ofttimes shady history of the medicine show, an American show-business institution that dispensed hoopla and nostrums to a credulous clientele. When medicine shows died out, the nation lost one of its most rollicking entertainments.

Author : Karen Berman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817370121

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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 25 by Karen Berman Pdf

Addresses the ways that theatre both shapes cross-cultural dialogue and is itself, in turn, shaped by those forces. Globalization may strike many as a phenomenon of our own historical moment, but it is truly as old as civilization: we need only look to the ancient Silk Road linking the Far East to the Mediterranean in order to find some of the earliest recorded impacts of people and goods crossing borders. Yet, in the current cultural moment, tensions are high due to increased migration, economic unpredictability, complicated acts of local and global terror, and heightened political divisions all over the world. Thus globalization seems new and a threat to our ways of life, to our nations, and to our cultures. In what ways have theatre practitioners, educators, and scholars worked to support cross-cultural dialogue historically? And in what ways might theatre embrace the complexities and contradictions inherent in any meaningful exchange? The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 25 reflect on these questions. Featured in Theatre Symposium, Volume 25 “Theatre as Cultural Exchange: Stages and Studios of Learning” by Anita Gonzalez “Certain Kinds of Dances Used among Them: An Initial Inquiry into Colonial Spanish Encounters with the Areytos of the Taíno in Puerto Rico” by E. Bert Wallace “Gertrude Hoffmann’s Lawful Piracy: ‘A Vision of Salome’ and the Russian Season as Transatlantic Production Impersonations” by Sunny Stalter-Pace “Greasing the Global: Princess Lotus Blossom and the Fabrication of the ‘Orient’ to Pitch Products in the American Medicine Show” by Chase Bringardner “Dismembering Tennessee Williams: The Global Context of Lee Breuer’s A Streetcar Named Desire” by Daniel Ciba “Transformative Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Prague: Americans Creating Czech History Plays” by Karen Berman “Finding Common Ground: Lessac Training across Cultures” by Erica Tobolski and Deborah A. Kinghorn

Author : Violet McNeal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1627310835

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Four White Horses and a Brass Band by Violet McNeal Pdf

A harrowing tale of a teen-age opium addict traveling from town to town selling useless tonics while dodging the law and escaping from her Svengali-like "husband". A timeless true story!

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498587

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Modern Humanities Research Association
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : English language
ISBN : 1001405064

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Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature by Modern Humanities Research Association Pdf

Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123776937

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Library Book Catalog by United States. Department of Justice Pdf

Author : United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Corrections
ISBN : UOM:39015031732541

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Library Book Catalog by United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Pdf

Author : Ann Anderson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476601120

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Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones by Ann Anderson Pdf

Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American medicine show sold tonics, ointments, pills, extracts and a host of other "wonder-cures," guaranteed to "cure what ails you." While the cures were seldom miraculous, the medicine show was an important part of American culture and of performance history. Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, and P.T. Barnum all took a turn upon the medicine show stage. This study of the medicine show phenomenon surveys nineteenth century popular entertainment and provides insight into the ways in which show business, advertising, and medicine manufacture developed in concert. The colorful world of the medicine show, with its Wild West shows, pie-eating contests, clowns, and menageries, is fully explored. Photographs of performers and of the fascinating handbills and posters used to promote the medicine show are included.

Author : Camille F. Forbes
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786722358

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Introducing Bert Williams by Camille F. Forbes Pdf

It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manager, Williams swiftly became a regular player in the troupe. Traveling on from the rough-and-ready "medicine shows" that then dotted the West, he rose through the ranks of big-time vaudeville in New York City, and finally ascended to the previously all-white pinnacle of live-stage success: the fabled Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. Inspite of his triumphs-he brought the first musical with an all-black cast to Broadway in 1903-he was often viewed by the black community with more critical suspicion than admiration because of his controversial decision to perform in blackface. Modest, private, and conservative in his personal life, Williams left political activism and soapbox thumping to others. More than the simple narration of a remarkable life, Introducing Bert Williams offers a fascinating window into the fraught issues surrounding race and artistic expression in American culture. The story of Williams's long and varied career is a whirlwind of inner turmoil, racial tension, glamour, and striving-nothing less than the birth of American show business.

Author : Graeme Kent
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781849544894

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The Strongest Men on Earth by Graeme Kent Pdf

They claimed to be the mightiest men in the world. For twenty-five years, before the outbreak of the First World War, professional strongmen were the pop idols of their day. Performing apparently incredible feats of strength, they strutted across stages and topped the bills everywhere, earning thousands of pounds a week. Fans included royalty, heads of state, politicians and leading figures in the literary and artistic worlds, as well as hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and women, all revelling in the antics of these larger-than-life characters. Seeking to outdo each other in death-defying deeds, the strongmen's performances were thrilling and dangerous: lifting elephants, horses, pianos and their players; breaking chains with their biceps; supporting thirty men on a plank suspended on their shoulders. Some strongmen succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Eugen Sandow, a great self-publicist, was appointed physical culture adviser to King George V. His great rival, the bombastic Charles Sampson, toured the world with his blatant cheating and rigged strongman displays until one day the elephant he claimed to be lifting remained suspended in mid-air. Georg Hackenschmidt, the Russian Lion, was so popular that Theodore Roosevelt himself declared wistfully that he would rather be 'Hack' than President of the USA. In The Strongest Men on Earth, Graeme Kent vividly brings to life the world of strongmen (and women), and shares the stories that defined a sporting and show-business era.

Author : Janet Benge,Geoff Benge
Publisher : YWAM Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1576582582

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William Booth by Janet Benge,Geoff Benge Pdf

"Each true story in this series by outstanding authors Janet and Geoff Benge is loved by adults and children alike. More Christian Heroes: Then & Now biographies and unit study curriculum guides are coming soon. Fifty-five books are planned, and thousands of families have started their collections! Horrified by the poverty and human misery in industrial England, General William Booth and his Salvation Army brought the gospel and life-changing social services to the outcasts of society (1829-1912).

Author : James Harvey Young
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781400869008

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The Toadstool Millionaires by James Harvey Young Pdf

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgments. Part One: Early Days. Part Two: Heyday. Part Three: Themes. Part Four: Legislation. Part Five: Epilogue. Index. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Amanda Skenandore
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496741691

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The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore Pdf

A downtrodden female doctor takes up with a traveling medicine show to support her disabled son, joining a German giantess, a bowlegged musician, an indentured Creek poet, and a handsome tinker under the thumb of a charismatic but menacing swindler on a collision course with the deadliest natural disaster in American history – the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Readers of Christina Baker Kline, Sandra Dallas, and Sara Donati will be captivated by this story of medical historical fiction by Amanda Skenandore, registered nurse and acclaimed author of The Nurse’s Secret and The Second Life of Mirielle West. Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn’t touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option—to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and become part of his traveling medicine show. Her medical license lends the show a pretense of credibility, but the cures and tonics Tucia is forced to peddle are little more than purgatives and bathwater. Loathing the duplicity, even as she finds uneasy kinship with the other misfit performers, Tucia vows to leave as soon as her debts are paid and start a new life with her son—if Huey will ever let her go. When the show reaches Galveston, Texas, Tucia tries to break free from Huey, only to be pulled even deeper into his schemes. But there is a far greater reckoning ahead, as a September storm becomes a devastating hurricane that will decimate the Gulf Coast—and challenge Tucia to recover her belief in medicine, in the goodness of others—and in herself.