UID:
edocfu_9959242034902883
Format:
1 online resource (287 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-58729-592-X
Series Statement:
Studies in theatre history and culture
Content:
Between 1904 and the Great Depression, Circuit Chautauquas toured the rural United States, reflecting and reinforcing its citizens' ideas, attitudes, and politics every summer through music (the Jubilee Singers, an African American group, were not always welcome in a time when millions of Americans belonged to the KKK), lectures (""Civic Revivalist"" Charles Zueblin speaking on ""Militancy and Morals""), elocutionary readers (Lucille Adams reading from Little Lord Fauntleroy), dramas (the Ben Greet Players' cleaned-up version of She Stoops to Conquer), orations (William Jennings Bryan speaking
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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America on the platform -- Community on the platform -- The platform in the tent -- Performance on the platform: oratory -- Performance on the platform: theater.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-87745-941-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58729-585-7
Language:
English
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