Agnes Under The Big Top
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Agnes Under The Big Top
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Author : Aditi Brennan Kapil
language : en
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
Release Date : 2012
Agnes Under The Big Top written by Aditi Brennan Kapil and has been published by Samuel French, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Drama categories.
" Agnes Under the Big Top: A Tall Tale " explores the intersecting lives of several immigrants in a US city. It is a magical tale of hope and disappointment, identity and reinvention, narrated by an itinerant subway busker. Against the subterranean rhythms of a subway train, a Liberian home care worker, a former Bulgarian ringmaster and his wife, an Indian call center escapee, and a bed-ridden American woman, find and redefine themselves in today's America.
Agnes Lake Hickok
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Author : Carolyn M. Bowers
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-11-19
Agnes Lake Hickok written by Carolyn M. Bowers and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first woman in America to own and operate a circus, Agnes Lake spent thirty years under the Big Top before becoming the wife of Wild Bill Hickok—a mere five months before he was killed. Although books abound on the famous lawman, Agnes’s life has remained obscured by circus myth and legend. Linda A. Fisher and Carrie Bowers have written the first biography of this colorful but little-known circus performer. Agnes originally found fame as a slack-wire walker and horseback rider, and later as an animal trainer. Her circus career spanned more than four decades. Following the murder of her first husband, Bill Lake, she was the sole manager of the “Hippo-Olympiad and Mammoth Circus.” While taking her show to Abilene, she met town marshal Hickok and five years later she married him. After Hickok’s death, Agnes traveled with P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody, and managed her daughter Emma Lake’s successful equestrian career. This account of a remarkable life cuts through fictions about Agnes’s life, including her own embellishments, to uncover her true story. Numerous illustrations, including rare photographs and circus memorabilia, bring Agnes’s world to life.
African Accents
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Author : Beth McGuire
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-05
African Accents written by Beth McGuire and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is a comprehensive workbook for actors, covering the key characteristics and profiles of a wide range of African accents of English. Its unique approach not only addresses the methods and processes by which to go about learning an accent, but also looks in detail at each example. This lets the reader plot their own route through the learning process and tailor not only their working methods but also their own personal idiolect. Full breakdowns of each accent cover: an introduction giving a brief history of the accent, its ethnic background, and its language of origin preparatory warm-up exercises specific to each accent a directory of research materials including documentaries, plays, films and online resources key characteristics such as melody, stress, pace and pitch descriptions of physical articulation in the tongue, lips, jaw, palate and pharynx practice sentences, phoneme tables and worksheets for solo study. African Accents is accompanied by a website at www.routledge.com/cw/mcguire with an extensive online database of audio samples for each accent. The book and audio resources guide actors to develop their own authentic accents, rather than simply to mimic native speakers. This process allows the actor to personalize an accent, and to integrate it into the creation of character rather than to play the accent on top of character.
The Hartford Circus Fire
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Author : Michael Skidgell
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2019-04-08
The Hartford Circus Fire written by Michael Skidgell and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-08 with History categories.
Through firsthand accounts, interviews with survivors and a gripping collection of vintage photographs, author Michael Skidgell attempts to make sense of one of Hartford's worst tragedies. Almost 7,000 fans eagerly packed into the Ringling Brothers big top on July 6, 1944. With a single careless act, an afternoon at the "Greatest Show on Earth" quickly became one of terror and tragedy as the paraffin-coated circus tent caught fire. Panicked crowds rushed for the few exits, but in minutes, the tent collapsed on those still struggling to escape below. A total of 168 lives were lost, many of them children, with many more injured and forever scarred by the events. Hartford and the surrounding communities reeled in the aftermath as investigators searched for the source of the fire and the responsible parties.
Catch A Falling Clown
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Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2011-12-13
Catch A Falling Clown written by Stuart M. Kaminsky and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-13 with Fiction categories.
A hard-boiled Hollywood PI has to work without a net to save Emmett Kelly from a killer who’s not clowning around: “Nostalgic fun” (Publishers Weekly). In February 1942, Californians may be living in fear of a Japanese attack, but the show must go on. The circus is in town—unfortunately so is a killer saboteur who’s targeting the star attractions. Private detective Toby Peters is no stranger to going undercover, but this is the first time his disguise will include a red nose. The killer has already electrocuted an elephant, and hobo clown Emmett Kelly has had a close brush with death. The second-rate circus in this sleepy coastal town seems like another world from Peters’s usual Hollywood beat, but of all people, Alfred Hitchcock, the director of Suspicion, is under suspicion. With the investigation on the verge of becoming a three-ring circus, it’s up to Toby Peters to cage the killer before anyone else meets a bad end under the big top. Edgar Award winner Stuart M. Kaminsky’s “Toby Peters series [is] a delight . . . Written with more than a dash of humor” and this big-top murder mystery is a “fun, lightweight book for all mystery fans” (Library Journal).
Time Traveller Trilogy
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Author : Janis Mackay
language : en
Publisher: Floris Books
Release Date : 2016-05-19
Time Traveller Trilogy written by Janis Mackay and has been published by Floris Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-19 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
This is an ebook-exclusive omnibus of all three books in Janis Mackay's award-winning Time Traveller trilogy: The Accidental Time Traveller, The Reluctant Time Traveller and The Unlikely Time Traveller. In the first book, Saul is on his way to the corner shop when a girl appears out of nowhere. Agatha Black is from 1812, and Saul has to figure out how time travel works to get her back there. The Reluctant Time Traveller finds Saul and his friend Agnes having to travel to back to 1914 -- a world on the verge of war. Can they risk altering the past, the present -- and their future? In book three, Saul is forced to travel to an exciting and unpredictable future time. Can he get his friend back to their own -- and what does the future hold in store? This pacy, time-travelling adventure series from Janis Mackay, winner of the Scottish Children's Book Awards, is full of funny misunderstandings, gripping action, historical detail and thought-provoking discoveries.
Circus Life
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Author : Micah D. Childress
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2023-08-18
Circus Life written by Micah D. Childress and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-18 with Performing Arts categories.
The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to the “Greatest Show on Earth.” Circus Life by Micah D. Childress looks at this transition from the perspective of the people who owned and worked in circuses and how they responded to the new incentives that rapid industrialization made possible. The circus has long been a subject of fascination for many, as evidenced by the millions of Americans that have attended circus performances over many decades since 1870, when the circus established itself as a truly unique entertainment enterprise. Yet the few analyses of the circus that do exist have only examined the circus as its own closed microcosm—the “circus family.” Circus Life, on the other hand, places circus employees in the larger context of the history of US workers and corporate America. Focusing on the circus as a business-entertainment venture, Childress pushes the scholarship on circuses to new depths, examining the performers, managers, and laborers’ lives and how the circus evolved as it grew in popularity over time. Beginning with circuses in the antebellum era, Childress examines changes in circuses as gender balances shifted, industrialization influenced the nature of shows, and customers and crowds became increasingly more middle-class. As a study in sport and social history, Childress’s account demonstrates how the itinerant nature of the circus drew specific types of workers and performers, and how the circus was internally in constant upheaval due to the changing profile of its patrons and a changing economy. MICAH D. CHILDRESS received his PhD in history from Purdue University and currently works as a Realtor® in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His articles have appeared in Popular Entertainment Studies and American Studies.
Benefits Of Farm To School Projects
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Benefits Of Farm To School Projects written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
Billboard
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948-07-03
Billboard written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948-07-03 with categories.
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
The Gothic And The Carnivalesque In American Culture
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Author : Timothy Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2015-05-15
The Gothic And The Carnivalesque In American Culture written by Timothy Jones and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture offers a new account of the American Gothic. Gothic studies, the field that explores horrid and frightful narratives, usually describes the genre as exploring genuine historical fears, crises and traumas, yet this does not account for the ways in which the genre is often a source of wicked delight as much as it is of horror – its audiences laugh as often as they shriek. This book traces the carnivalesque tradition in the American Gothic from the nineteenth into the late twentieth century. It discusses the festivals offered by Poe, Hawthorne and Irving; the celebrations of wickedness offered by the Weird Tales writers, including H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith; the curious aura attached to Ray Bradbury’s stories; the way in which hosted horrors in comics and on television in the 1950s and 1960s taught their mass audiences how to read the genre; Stephen King’s nurturing of a new audience for Gothic carnivals in the 1970s and 1980s; and the confluence of Gothic story and Goth subculture in the 1990s. Introduction: Ballyhoo Chapter One: Theory, Practice and Gothic Carnival Chapter Two: ‘The Delight of its Horror’ – Poe’s Carnivals and the Nineteenth-Century American Gothic Chapter Three: Weird Tales and Pulp Subjunctivity Chapter Four: Ray Bradbury and the October Aura Chapter Five: Hosted Horrors of the 1950s and 1960s Chapter Six: Stephen King, Affect and the Real Limits of Gothic Practice Chapter Seven: Every Day is Halloween – Goth and the Gothic Conclusion: Waiting for the Great Pumpkin