Renegades Showmen Angels
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Renegades Showmen Angels
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Author : Jan Jones
language : en
Publisher: TCU Press
Release Date : 2006
Renegades Showmen Angels written by Jan Jones and has been published by TCU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
"Jan Jones' volume on Fort Worth's theatrical heritage presents for the first time a comprehensive history of the showmen, performers, theaters, and events that shaped the city's histrionic fortunes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
Feuding Fan Dancers
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Author : Leslie Zemeckis
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Feuding Fan Dancers written by Leslie Zemeckis and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Social Science categories.
"Detailed, deeply researched, and compelling." —Chicago Tribune Historian Leslie Zemeckis reveals the lost stories of Sally Rand and Faith Bacon—icons who each claimed to be the inventor of the notorious fan dance. Nearly one hundred years later, both women come alive again.
A History Of Fort Worth In Black White
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Author : Richard F. Selcer
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-12-15
A History Of Fort Worth In Black White written by Richard F. Selcer and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with History categories.
A History of Fort Worth in Black & White fills a long-empty niche on the Fort Worth bookshelf: a scholarly history of the city's black community that starts at the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers, and comes down to today with our current battles over education, housing, and representation in city affairs. The book's sidebars on some noted and some not-so-noted African Americans make it appealing as a school text as well as a book for the general reader. Using a wealth of primary sources, Richard Selcer dispels several enduring myths, for instance the mistaken belief that Camp Bowie trained only white soldiers, and the spurious claim that Fort Worth managed to avoid the racial violence that plagued other American cities in the twentieth century. Selcer arrives at some surprisingly frank conclusions that will challenge current politically correct notions.
South By Southwest
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Author : Janis P. Stout
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2013-02-22
South By Southwest written by Janis P. Stout and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter’s troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, South by Southwest offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author. Today, more than thirty years after her death, Katherine Anne Porter remains a fascinating figure. Critics and biographers have portrayed her as a strikingly glamorous woman whose photographs appeared in society magazines. They have emphasized, of course, her writing— particularly the novel Ship of Fools, which was made into an award-winning film, and her collection Pale Horse, Pale Rider, which cemented her role as a significant and original literary modernist. They have highlighted her dramatic, sad, and fragmented personal life. Few, however, have addressed her uneasy relationship to her childhood in rural Texas. Janis P. Stout argues that throughout Porter’s life she remained preoccupied with the twin conundrums of how she felt about being a woman and how she felt about her Texas origins. Her construction of herself as a beautiful but unhappy southerner sprung from a plantation aristocracy of reduced fortunes meant she construed Texas as the Old South. The Texas Porter knew and re-created in her fiction had been settled by southerners like her grandparents, who brought slaves with them. As she wrote of this Texas, she also enhanced and mythologized it, exaggerating its beauty, fertility, and gracious ways as much as the disaffection that drove her to leave. Her feelings toward Texas ran to both extremes, and she was never able to reconcile them. Stout examines the author and her works within the historical and cultural context from which she emerged. In particular, Stout emphasizes four main themes in the history of Texas that she believes are of the greatest importance in understanding Porter: its geography and border location (expressed in Porter’s lifelong fascination with marginality, indeterminacy, and escape); its violence (the brutality of her first marriage as well as the lawlessness that pervaded her hometown); its racism (lynchings were prevalent throughout her upbringing); and its marginalization of women (Stout draws a connection between Porter’s references to the burning sun and oppressive heat of Texas and her life with her first husband).
Ancient Slavery And Abolition
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Author : Edith Hall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-07-07
Ancient Slavery And Abolition written by Edith Hall and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-07 with History categories.
"Originating in a conference organised in 2007 by the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway, University of London, and held at the British Library ... this accessible volume offers a pathbreaking study of the role played by the interpreters of ancient Greek and roman texts in the debates over the abolition of slavery. Focusing on Britain, North America, the Caribbean, and South Africa from the late 17th century, the essays examine the arguments of critics and defenders of slavery and legacy of slavery, in later periods." --Book jacket.
Camp Bowie Boulevard
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Author : Juliet George
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2013-09-16
Camp Bowie Boulevard written by Juliet George and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-16 with Photography categories.
In the early 1890s, Humphrey Barker Chamberlin installed a lifeline to his namesake suburb west of the city. A trolley connected to Arlington Heights Boulevard at the Trinity Rivers Clear Fork and chugged across prairie land to reach Chamberlin Arlington Heights. Camp Bowie, a soldiers city, sprawled over both sides of the road from 1917 until 1919. At the Great Wars end, the stretch west of present-day University Drive became the commemorative Camp Bowie Boulevard. The 1920s brought twin ribbons of cordovan-colored brick pavement, the prestige of inclusion in the Bankhead Highway network, and westering developers of another elite village: Ridglea. Midway through the Great Depression, the Will Rogers complex arose on a farm tract, visible from the thoroughfare, to host Texas Centennial celebrations and a special livestock exposition. Museums began claiming adjacent space in the 1950s. By the second decade of the 21st century, Camp Bowie Boulevard bisected a built environment both modern and historic.
Fort Worth Stories
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Author : Richard F. Selcer
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2021-02-15
Fort Worth Stories written by Richard F. Selcer and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-15 with History categories.
Fort Worth Stories is a collection of thirty-two bite-sized chapters of the city’s history. Did you know that the same day Fort Worth was mourning the death of beloved African American “Gooseneck Bill” McDonald, Dallas was experiencing a series of bombings in black neighborhoods? Or that Fort Worth almost got the largest statue to Robert E. Lee ever put up anywhere, sculpted by the same massive talent that created Mount Rushmore? Or that Fort Worth was once the candy-making capital of the Southwest and gave Hershey, Pennsylvania, a good run for its money as the sweet spot of the nation? A remarkable number of national figures have made a splash in Fort Worth, including Theodore Roosevelt while he was President; Vernon Castle, the Dance King; Dr. H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer; Harry Houdini, the escape artist; and Texas Guinan, star of the vaudeville stage and the big screen. Fort Worth Stories is illustrated with 50 photographs and drawings, many of them never before published. This collection of stories will appeal to all who appreciate the Cowtown city.
Historical Dictionary Of Contemporary American Theater
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Author : James Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Historical Dictionary Of Contemporary American Theater written by James Fisher and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Performing Arts categories.
From legends like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller to successful present-day playwrights like Neil LaBute, Tony Kushner, and David Mamet, some of the most important names in the history of theater are from the past 80 years. Contemporary American theater has produced some of the most memorable, beloved, and important plays in history, including Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Barefoot in the Park, Our Town, The Crucible, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Odd Couple. Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater presents the plays and personages, movements and institutions, and cultural developments of the American stage from 1930 to 2010, a period of vast and almost continuous change. It covers the ever-changing history of the American theater with emphasis on major movements, persons, plays, and events. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 1,500 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of American theater.
The Demographic Imagination And The Nineteenth Century City
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Author : Nicholas Daly
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-30
The Demographic Imagination And The Nineteenth Century City written by Nicholas Daly 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 2015-03-30 with History categories.
Provocative account exploring how a population explosion transformed nineteenth-century European and American culture, creating shared narratives of urban life.
Show Town
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Author : Holly George
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2016-10-26
Show Town written by Holly George 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 2016-10-26 with History categories.
Like many western boomtowns at the turn of the twentieth century, Spokane, Washington, enjoyed a lively theatrical scene, ranging from plays, concerts, and operas to salacious variety and vaudeville shows. Yet even as Spokanites took pride in their city’s reputation as a “good show town,” the more genteel among them worried about its “Wild West” atmosphere. In Show Town, historian Holly George correlates the clash of tastes and sensibilities among Spokane’s theater patrons with a larger shift in values occurring throughout the Inland West—and the nation—during a period of rapid social change. George begins this multifaceted story in 1890, when two Spokane developers built the lavish Auditorium Theater as a kind of advertisement for the young city. The new venue catered to a class of people made wealthy by speculation, railroads, and mining. Yet the refined entertainment the Auditorium offered conflicted with the rollicking shows that played in the town’s variety theaters, designed to draw in the migratory workers—primarily single men—who provided labor for the same industries that made the fortunes of Spokane’s elite. As well-to-do Spokanites attempted to clamp down on the variety theaters, performances at even the city’s more respectable, “legitimate” playhouses began to reflect a movement away from Victorian sensibilities to a more modern desire for self-fulfillment—particularly among women. Theaters joined the debate over modern femininity by presenting plays on issues ranging from woman’s suffrage to shifting marital expectations. At the same time, national theater monopolies transmitted to the people of Spokane new styles and tastes that mirrored larger cultural trends. Lucidly written and meticulously researched, Show Town is a groundbreaking work of cultural history. By examining one city’s theatrical scene in all its complex dimensions, this book expands our understanding of the forces that shaped the urban American West.