T O B A Time
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T O B A Time
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Author : Michelle R. Scott
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2023-02-28
T O B A Time written by Michelle R. Scott and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with History categories.
Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for “tough on black artists.” But the Theater Owner’s Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry and provided a training ground for icons like Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis Jr., the Nicholas Brothers, Count Basie, and Butterbeans and Susie. Michelle R. Scott’s institutional history details T.O.B.A.’s origins and practices while telling the little-known stories of the managers, producers, performers, and audience members involved in the circuit. Looking at the organization over its eleven-year existence (1920–1931), Scott places T.O.B.A. against the backdrop of what entrepreneurship and business development meant in black America at the time. Scott also highlights how intellectuals debated the social, economic, and political significance of black entertainment from the early 1900s through T.O.B.A.’s decline during the Great Depression. Clear-eyed and comprehensive, T.O.B.A. Time is a fascinating account of black entertainment and black business during a formative era.
The Cambridge History Of Japan
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Author : John Whitney Hall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1988
The Cambridge History Of Japan written by John Whitney Hall 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 1988 with History categories.
This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment in Western literature of the Heian period, the Japanese imperial court's golden age.
The Original Blues
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Author : Lynn Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2017-02-27
The Original Blues written by Lynn Abbott and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-27 with Music categories.
With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American popular music. Fortified by decades of research, the authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs, critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville theaters; the shadowy prehistory and early development of the blues is illuminated, detailed, and given substance. At the end of the nineteenth century, vaudeville began to replace minstrelsy as America's favorite form of stage entertainment. Segregation necessitated the creation of discrete African American vaudeville theaters. When these venues first gained popularity ragtime coon songs were the standard fare. Insular black southern theaters provided a safe haven, where coon songs underwent rehabilitation and blues songs suitable for the professional stage were formulated. The process was energized by dynamic interaction between the performers and their racially-exclusive audience. The first blues star of black vaudeville was Butler "String Beans" May, a blackface comedian from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his bizarre, senseless death in 1917, String Beans was recognized as the "blues master piano player of the world." His musical legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the race recording era. While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface comedian, female "coon shouters" acquired a more dignified aura in the emergent persona of the "blues queen." Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, such as forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protégé Trixie Smith, ingeniously reconfigured the blackface mask for their own subversive purposes. In 1921 black vaudeville activity was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collaboration with the emergent race record industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies headed by blues queens with records to sell. By this time the blues had moved beyond the confines of entertainment for an exclusively black audience. Small-time black vaudeville became something it had never been before--a gateway to big-time white vaudeville circuits, burlesque wheels, and fancy metropolitan cabarets. While the 1920s was the most glamorous and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the prior decade was arguably even more creative, having witnessed the emergence, popularization, and early development of the original blues on the African American vaudeville stage.
Save The People
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Author : Stacy McAnulty
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-05-10
Save The People written by Stacy McAnulty and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-10 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"Save the People is engaging, funny, affecting and delightful. You’ll never have more fun learning science." --Stuart Gibbs, bestselling author of the Spy School series "Serious science and great gags, with a bit of hope thrown in.” --Steven Sheinkin, bestselling author of Bomb and Fallout An action-packed look at past, present, and future threats to humanity’s survival—with an ultimately reassuring message that humans probably have a few more millennia in us. Scientists estimate that 99% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct. Whoa. So, it's not unreasonable to predict humans are doomed to become fossil records as well. But what could lead to our demise? Supervolcanos? Asteroids? The sun going dark? Climate change? All the above?! Humans—with our big brains, opposable thumbs, and speedy Wi-Fi—may be capable of avoiding most of these nightmares. (The T. rex would be super jealous of our satellites.) But we're also capable of triggering world-ending events. Learning from past catastrophes may be the best way to avoid future disasters. Packed with science, jokes, and black and white illustrations, Save the People! examines the worst-case scenarios that could (but hopefully won’t) cause the greatest mass extinction—our own!
A History Of China
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Author : Wolfram Eberhard
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
A History Of China written by Wolfram Eberhard and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with History categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.
Christianity Colonization And Gender Relations In North Sumatra
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Author : Sita T. van Bemmelen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-11-20
Christianity Colonization And Gender Relations In North Sumatra written by Sita T. van Bemmelen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-20 with Social Science categories.
This book describes changes in the patrilineal society of the Toba Batak (Sumatra, Indonesia) due to Christianity and Dutch colonial rule (1861-1942) with a focus on customary law and gender relations.
The China Review Or Notes And Queries On The Far East
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The China Review Or Notes And Queries On The Far East written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with China categories.
A History Of China 3d Ed Rev And Enl
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Author : Wolfram Eberhard
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-15
A History Of China 3d Ed Rev And Enl written by Wolfram Eberhard and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with History categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]" by Wolfram Eberhard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Local Cultures Of South And East China
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Author : Wolfram Eberhard
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1968
The Local Cultures Of South And East China written by Wolfram Eberhard and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with China categories.
The China Review Or Notes And Queries On The Far East
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Author : Nicholas Belfield Dennys
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The China Review Or Notes And Queries On The Far East written by Nicholas Belfield Dennys and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with China categories.