UID:
almafu_9959242034902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (287 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-58729-592-X
Serie:
Studies in theatre history and culture
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
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
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-87745-941-X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-58729-585-7
Sprache:
Englisch
