Live From Atlantic City

Author : Armando Riverol
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0879725583

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Live from Atlantic City by Armando Riverol Pdf

Traces the pageant's history from its inception in 1920 through its emergence as American popular culture icon, not only chronicling events but presenting two opposing perspectives on the pageant: the pageant as celebration and idealization of American womanhood, and the pageant as sexist, exploitative anachronism. With 25 pages of bandw photographs. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Hilary Levey Friedman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807083642

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Here She Is by Hilary Levey Friedman Pdf

A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world. Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo. Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birth of the suffrage movement, through Miss Universe’s bathing beauties to the talent- and achievement-based competitions of today. She looks at how pageantry has morphed into culture everywhere from The Bachelor and RuPaul’s Drag Race to cheer and specialized contests like those for children, Indigenous women, and contestants with disabilities. Friedman also acknowledges the damaging and unrealistic expectations pageants place on women in society and discusses the controversies, including Miss America’s ableist and racist history, Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe Organization, and the death of child pageant-winner JonBenét Ramsey. Presenting a more complex narrative than what’s been previously portrayed, Here She Is shows that as American women continue to evolve, so too will beauty pageants.

Author : Angela J. Latham
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-28
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780819564016

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Posing a Threat by Angela J. Latham Pdf

A lively look at the ways in which American women in the 1920s transformed their lives through performance and fashion. New definitions of American femininity were formed in the pivotal 1920s, an era that vastly expanded the "market" for sexually explicit displays by women. Angela J. Latham shows how quarrels over and censorship of women's performance — particularly in the arenas of fashion and theater — uniquely reveal the cultural idiosyncracies of the period and provide valuable clues to the developing iconicity of the female body in its more recent historical phases. Through disguise, display, or judicious appropriation of both, performance became a crucial means by which women contested, affirmed, mitigated, and revolutionized norms of female self-presentation and self-stylization. Fashion was a hotly contested arena of bodily display. Latham surveys 1920s fashion trends and explores popular fashion rhetoric. Resistance to social mandates regarding women's fashion was nowhere more pronounced than in the matter of "bathing costumes." Latham critiques locally situated contests over swimwear, including those surrounding the first Miss America Pageant, and suggests how such performances sanctioned otherwise unacceptable self-presentations by women. Looking at American theater, Latham summarizes major arguments about censorship and the ideological assumptions embedded within them. Although sexually provocative displays by women were often the focus of censorship efforts, "leg shows," including revues like the Zeigfeld Follies, were in their heyday. Latham situates the popularity of such performances that featured women's bodies within the larger context of censorship in the American theater at this time.

Author : Andrea Elizabeth Shaw,Andrea Shaw Nevins
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0739114875

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The Embodiment of Disobedience by Andrea Elizabeth Shaw,Andrea Shaw Nevins Pdf

The Embodiment of Disobedience explores the ways in which the African Diaspora has rejected the West's efforts to impose imperatives of slenderness and mass market fat-anxiety.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Federal, State, and Community Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Older people
ISBN : MINN:31951P006468087

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Transportation, improving mobility for older Americans by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Federal, State, and Community Services Pdf

Author : Amy Argetsinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982123413

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There She Was by Amy Argetsinger Pdf

A Washington Post style editor’s fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary. The sash. The tears. The glittering crown. And of course, that soaring song. For all its pomp and kitsch, the Miss America pageant is indelibly written into the American story of the past century. From its giddy origins as a summer’s-end tourist draw in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, it blossomed into a televised extravaganza that drew tens of millions of viewers in its heyday and was once considered the highest honor that a young woman could achieve. For two years, Washington Post reporter and editor Amy Argetsinger visited pageants and interviewed former winners and contestants to unveil the hidden world of this iconic institution. There She Was spotlights how the pageant survived decades of social and cultural change, collided with a women’s liberation movement that sought to abolish it, and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas about feminism. For its superstars—Phyllis George, Vanessa Williams, Gretchen Carlson—and for those who never became household names, Miss America was a platform for women to exercise their ambitions and learn brutal lessons about the culture of fame. Spirited and revelatory, There She Was charts the evolution of the American woman, from the Miss America catapulted into advocacy after she was exposed as a survivor of domestic violence to the one who used her crown to launch a congressional campaign; from a 1930s winner who ran away on the night of her crowning to a present-day rock guitarist carving out her place in this world. Argetsinger dissects the scandals and financial turmoil that have repeatedly threatened to kill the pageant—and highlights the unexpected sisterhood of Miss Americas fighting to keep it alive.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Aging
ISBN : STANFORD:36105219388647

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Meeting Needs of Older Persons where They Live by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry C. Silcox
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0271010797

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A Place to Live and Work by Harry C. Silcox Pdf

A rich history of the unique relationship between life and work in an American factory town from 1840 to 1984, A Place to Live and Work tells the remarkable story of Henry Disston's saw manufacturing company and the factory town he built. The book provides a rare view of the rise of one of America's largest and most powerful family-owned businesses, from its modest beginnings in 1840 to the 1940s, when Disston products were known worldwide, to the sale and demise of the company in the postwar years. Henry Disston, however, not only built a factory; he also shaped Tacony, the town in northeastern Philadelphia where the workers lived. The book describes the company's interdependence with the community and profiles the lifestyle that grew out of Disston's paternalistic blueprint for Tacony. Using original letter books, shop committee meeting notes, photographs, and a wealth of other documents, Harry Silcox reveals Disston's highly sophisticated distribution and marketing system as well as a management system that, unlike the one advocated by Frederick Winslow Taylor, responded to the concerns of workers and foremen. Through two world wars, the Depression, and the rise of unions, Disston's innovative business practices enabled the company to remain active and strong even when factories across the nation were failing. This study raises important questions about the demise of the factory system and its impact on urban communities and family life. The Disston company provides one example of how people could work and live together successfully within the larger framework of the factory system.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Meat industry and trade
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119660673

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Stimulation of Live-stock Products by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry Pdf

Author : Alan J. Lerner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324001652

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The Street Where I Live: A Memoir by Alan J. Lerner Pdf

“Lerner will always be remembered as a Broadway light, and one of the brightest.” —Tom Shales, The Washington Post The Street Where I Live is at once an intimate biography of three great shows—My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot—and a candid account of the life and times of Alan J. Lerner, one of America’s most acclaimed and popular lyricists. Large-hearted, humorous, and often poignant in its reverence for a celebrated era in the American theater, this is the story of what Lerner calls "the sundown of wit, eccentricity, and glamour." Try as he might to keep himself out of these pages, Lerner reveals himself to be a man of great talent, laughter, and love. Along the way, we meet a sensational supporting cast: Moss Hart, Fritz Loewe, Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Louis Jourdan, and Maurice Chevalier, to name a few. They are seen in moments of triumph and disaster, but all are professionals at the creation of theater. And the creation of theater is the matrix of this wonderful book. Included are the complete lyrics to My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210014040073

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Hearing on H.R. 226, the Live Performing Artists Labor Relations Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations Pdf

Author : Dr. Albert P. Rowe
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781460270196

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Dying to Live by Dr. Albert P. Rowe Pdf

Dying to live is a simple book of eulogies preached in an urban church of humble Christians who lived extraordinary lives. These eulogies celebrate the life of the deceased, comfort the bereaved and affirm eternal life.

Author : Emily J. Lordi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781628929829

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Donny Hathaway's Donny Hathaway Live by Emily J. Lordi Pdf

In January of 1979, the great soul artist Donny Hathaway fell fifteen stories from a window of Manhattan's Essex House Hotel in an alleged suicide. He was 33 years old and everyone he worked with called him a genius. Best known for “A Song for You,” “This Christmas,” and classic duets with Roberta Flack, Hathaway was a composer, pianist, and singer committed to exploring “music in its totality.” His velvet melisma and vibrant sincerity set him apart from other soul men of his era while influencing generations of singers and fans whose love affair with him continues to this day. The first nonfiction book about Hathaway, Donny Hathaway Live uses original interviews, archival material, musical analysis, cultural history, and poetry to tell the story of Hathaway's life, from his beginnings as a gospel wonder child to his final years. But its focus is the brutally honest, daringly gorgeous music he created as he raced the clock of mental illness-especially in the performances captured on his 1972 album Donny Hathaway Live. That album testifies to Hathaway's uncanny ability to amplify the power and beauty of his songs in the moment of live performance. By exploring that album, we see how he generated a spiritual experience for those present at his shows, and for those with the privilege to listen in now.

Author : R.D. Peterson
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781633380943

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Who Dunn It??? The Memoirs of a Live Dead Man!!! Or Not??? by R.D. Peterson Pdf

(1) Have you ever thought with today's technology if the United States became involved in another world war how the United States would be victorious without firing a shot and the rest of the world not know the war existed? (2) With today's technology, have you ever pondered how the next World War would be conducted? (3) With recent revelations concerning the N.S.A. and the C.I.A., do you trust our clandestine covert operations? (4) Do you feel our government is telling us the truth or do

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081788048

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Contested Election Case of William Connell Vs. George Howell, from the Tenth Congressional District of the State of Pennsylvania by Anonim Pdf