The Cherry Sisters Phenomenon in 1890s Variety Entertainment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cherry Sisters Phenomenon in 1890s Variety Entertainment write by Peach R. Pittenger. This book was released on 2001. The Cherry Sisters Phenomenon in 1890s Variety Entertainment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Infamous Cherry Sisters
The Infamous Cherry Sisters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Infamous Cherry Sisters write by Darryl W. Bullock. This book was released on 2018-12-31. The Infamous Cherry Sisters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Raised in poverty on an Iowa farm, the Cherry Sisters had little education and no training. But they possessed a burning desire to take to the stage and show the world what they could do—and what they could do was awful. Their unique act was “so bad it was good.” When the sisters took the stage, they were met with rotten fruit and vegetables, festering meat, dead cats... Riots often broke out after (and sometimes during) their concerts, but they carried on, changing attitudes—and laws—along the way. This book follows the five women through their forty-year career in vaudeville theaters across the U.S. Proud, fearless and fiercely independent in a time when women were treated as second-class citizens, the Cherry Sisters insisted that their voices be heard.
Theatre History Studies
Theatre History Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre History Studies write by . This book was released on 2004. Theatre History Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
American Vaudeville as Ritual
American Vaudeville as Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Vaudeville as Ritual write by Albert F. McLeanJr.. This book was released on 2021-10-21. American Vaudeville as Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a symbolic manifestation of basic values shared by the American people during the period 1885-1930. By examining vaudeville as folk ritual, the book reveals the unconscious symbolism basic to vaudeville-in its humor, magic, animal acts, music, and playlets, and also in the performers and the managers—which gave form to the dominant American myth of success. This striking view of the new mass man as a folk and of his mythology rooted in the very empirical science devoted to dispelling myth has implications for the serious study of all forms of mass entertainment in America. The book is illustrated with a number of striking photographs.
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luxury Arts of the Renaissance write by Marina Belozerskaya. This book was released on 2005-10-01. Luxury Arts of the Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
