Modern Entertainments
Author | : Effie W. Merriman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Amusements |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Effie W. Merriman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Amusements |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Monod |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469660563 |
Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudeville was also America's most popular commercial amusement from the mid-1890s to the First World War; at its peak, 5 million Americans attended vaudeville shows every week. Telling the story of this pioneering art form's rise and decline, David Monod looks through the apparent carnival of vaudeville performance and asks: what made the theater so popular and transformative? Although he acknowledges its quirkiness, Monod makes the case that vaudeville became so popular because it offered audiences a guide to a modern urban lifestyle. Vaudeville acts celebrated sharp city styles and denigrated old-fashioned habits, showcased new music and dance moves, and promulgated a deeply influential vernacular modernism. The variety show's off-the-rack trendiness perfectly suited an era when goods and services were becoming more affordable and the mass market promised to democratize style, offering a clear vision of how the quintessential twentieth-century citizen should look, talk, move, feel, and act.
Author | : Effie Woodward 1857 Merriman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2016-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781373165756 |
Author | : Simone Natale |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271077379 |
In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the promotional strategies and spectacular techniques that were being developed for the broader entertainment industry. Spiritualist mediums were indistinguishable from other professional performers, as they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw audiences. Addressing the overlap between spiritualism’s explosion and nineteenth-century show business, Natale provides an archaeology of how the supernatural became a powerful force in the media and popular culture of today.
Author | : Hermann Lotze |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Mechanism (Philosophy) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur Lewis Tubbs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : May Laffan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Irish fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Taylor & Francis Group |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781032174884 |
Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London brings together a group of essays from across multiple fields of study that examine the socio-cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of pageantry in sixteenth and seventeenth-century London. This collection engages with modern interest in the spectacle and historical performances of pageantry and entertainments, including royal entries, progresses, coronation ceremonies, Lord Mayor's Shows, and processions. Through a discussion of the extant texts, visual records, archival material, and emerging projects in the digital humanities, the chapters elucidate the forms in which the period itself recorded its public rituals, pageantry, and ephemeral entertainments. The diversity of approaches contained in these chapters reflects the collaborative nature of pageantry and civic entertainments, as well as the broad socio-cultural resonances of this form of drama, and in doing so offers a study that is multi-faceted and wide-ranging, much like civic performance itself. Ideal for scholars of Early Modern global politics, economics, and culture; literary and performance studies; print culture; and the digital humanities, Civic Performance casts a new lens on street pageantry and entertainments in the historically and culturally significant locus of Early Modern London.
Author | : Blanche Portor Fisher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Massachusetts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Helen Sherman Griffith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : |
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