Broadway Below The Sidewalk

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Broadway Below The Sidewalk

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Author : William Lawrence Slout
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 1994-01-01

Broadway Below The Sidewalk written by William Lawrence Slout and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.

The Broadway of the 1860s in New York City began at Bowling Green at the southern tip of Manhattan, and extended all the way to Tarrytown. During this period concert saloons entertained a sizeable portion of the Broadway night life. Variety entertainments were performed in converted theatres amid a barroom atmosphere, where patrons were attended by "pretty waiter girls." Taken from the pages of the New York Clipper, these contemporaneous pieces describe a world of entertainment long forgotten. Complete with index and notes.

America Under The Influence

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Author : Chloë Rae Edmonson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-09-04

America Under The Influence written by Chloë Rae Edmonson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-04 with Performing Arts categories.

In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is performative, immersive performance is intoxicating, and how alcohol shapes performance space and practice. Combining archival research with firsthand accounts of immersive spaces, this study demonstrates how social drinking and performance in themed spaces often collude to reify power dynamics latent to mainstream American culture, such as patriarchal values, racial and wealth inequality, and labor exploitation. Yet there are also examples of how performers, designers, and consumers creatively subvert such dominant attitudes in pursuit of their own creative expression and fulfillment. Part I examines historic bars and clubs that are immersive by design, while Part II explores immersive theatre productions from the 1980s to today. At the heart of all these American examples, of course, is alcohol, its associated cultures of immersive consumption, and the wide range of influence it can have on the bodies and minds of performers and participants. In addition to its pop cultural appeal, this study will be relevant to scholars and university students interested in immersive theatre and performance, drinking culture, and American studies.

The Soul Of Pleasure

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Author : David Monod
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-24

The Soul Of Pleasure written by David Monod and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with History categories.

Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. Monod focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them. Show people discovered that they had to adapt entertainment to the moral outlook of Americans, which they did by appealing to sentiment.The Soul of Pleasure explores several controversial forms of popular culture—minstrel acts, burlesques, and saloon variety shows—and places them in the context of changing values and perceptions. Far from challenging respectability, Monod argues that entertainments reflected and transformed the audience's ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, sentimentality not only infused performance styles and the content of shows but also altered the expectations of the theatergoing public. Sentimental entertainment depended on sensational effects that produced surprise, horror, and even gales of laughter. After the Civil War the sensational charge became more important than the sentimental bond, and new forms of entertainment gained in popularity and provided the foundations for vaudeville, America’s first mass entertainment. Ultimately, it was American entertainment’s variety that would provide the true soul of pleasure.

Bp 250

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Author : R. Reginald
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 1996-01-01

Bp 250 written by R. Reginald and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Reference categories.

An Annotated Bibliography of the First 300 Publications of the Borgo Press, 1975-1998

Proceedings Of The City Council Of The City Of Minneapolis

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

Proceedings Of The City Council Of The City Of Minneapolis written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Minneapolis (Minn.) categories.

Under The Sidewalks Of New York

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Author : Brian J. Cudahy
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 1995

Under The Sidewalks Of New York written by Brian J. Cudahy and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Business & Economics categories.

But as it is in no other city on earth, the subway of New York is intimately woven into the fabric and identity of the city itself.

Proceedings

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Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917

Proceedings written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with categories.

The New York Concert Saloon

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Author : Brooks McNamara
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-28

The New York Concert Saloon written by Brooks McNamara and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-28 with Drama categories.

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Vaudeville Old New

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Author : Frank Cullen
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2007

Vaudeville Old New written by Frank Cullen and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Entertainers categories.

The Life And Songs Of Stephen Foster

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Author : JoAnne O'Connell
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-09-29

The Life And Songs Of Stephen Foster written by JoAnne O'Connell and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-29 with Music categories.

The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster offers an engaging reassessment of the life, politics, and legacy of the misunderstood father of American music. Once revered the world over, Foster’s plantation songs, like “Old Folks at Home” and “My Old Kentucky Home,” fell from grace in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement due to their controversial lyrics. Foster embraced the minstrel tradition for a brief time, refining it and infusing his songs with sympathy for slaves, before abandoning the genre for respectable parlor music. The youngest child in a large family, he grew up in the shadows of a successful older brother and his president brother-in-law, James Buchanan, and walked a fine line between the family’s conservative politics and his own pro-Lincoln sentiments. Foster lived most of his life just outside of industrial, smoke-filled Pittsburgh and wrote songs set in a pastoral South—unsullied by the grime of industry but tarnished by the injustice of slavery. Rather than defining Foster by his now-controversial minstrel songs, JoAnne O’Connell reveals a prolific composer who concealed his true feelings in his lyrics and wrote in diverse styles to satisfy the changing tastes of his generation. In a trenchant reevaluation of his NewYork Bowery years, O’Connell illustrates how Foster purposely abandoned the style for which he was famous to write lighthearted songs for newly popular variety stages and music halls. In the last years of his life, Foster’s new direction in songwriting stood in the vanguard of vaudeville and musical comedy to pave the way for the future of American popular music. His stylistic flexibility in the face of evolving audience preferences not only proves his versatility as a composer but also reveals important changes in the American music and publishing industries. An intimate biography of a complex, controversial, and now neglected composer, The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster is an important story about the father of American music. This invaluable portrait of the political, economic, social, racial, and gender issues of antebellum and Civil War America will appeal to history and music lovers of all generations.