Author: Thomas Edward DenneryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Social Reform and the American Theater
Author: Thomas Edward DennerySocial Reform and the American Theater, 1880-1920
Author: Thomas Edward DenneryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
May Irwin
Author: Sharon AmmenPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252099095
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
May Irwin reigned as America's queen of comedy and song from the 1880s through the 1920s. A genuine pop culture phenomenon, Irwin conquered the legitimate stage, composed song lyrics, and parlayed her celebrity into success as a cookbook author, suffragette, and real estate mogul. Sharon Ammen's in-depth study traces Irwin's hurly-burly life. Irwin gained fame when, layering aspects of minstrelsy over ragtime, she popularized a racist "Negro song" genre. Ammen examines this forgotten music, the society it both reflected and entertained, and the ways white and black audiences received Irwin's performances. She also delves into Irwin's hands-on management of her image and career, revealing how Irwin carefully built a public persona as a nurturing housewife whose maternal skills and performing acumen reinforced one another. Irwin's act, soaked in racist song and humor, built a fortune she never relinquished. Yet her career's legacy led to a posthumous obscurity as the nation that once adored her evolved and changed.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1608
Book Description
Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920
Author: Benjamin McArthurPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877457107
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The forty years 1880 to 1920 marked the golden age of the American theatre as a national institution, a time when actors moved from being players outside the boundaries of respectable society to being significant figures in the social landscape. As the only book that provides an overview of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theatre, Actors and American Culture is also the only study of the legitimate stage that overtly attempts to connect actors and their work to the wider aspects of American life.
Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: John W. FrickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521817781
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book examines the role of temperance drama in American theatre and compares the American genre to its British counterpart.
Nineteenth Century Theatre Research
Author: Social Reform and Reaction in America
Author: Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860
Author: Rosemarie K. BankPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521563871
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A study of pre-Civil War American theatre.
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.