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Category : Wrestling
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Cyclone Wrestling
Author: Cyclone Basketball
Author: Nickelodeons and Black Vaudeville
Author: Kathi Clark WongPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621908038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In an era of online streaming, it may be difficult to recognize the importance of a woman who in 1908 established the first silent movie theater in Richmond, Virginia: the Dixie nickelodeon. But Amanda Thorp, an independent, self-made woman, was on the ground floor of a popular culture that would grow to be enormously influential in our modern era. In Nickelodeons and Black Vaudeville: The Forgotten Story of Amanda Thorp, Kathi Clark Wong’s extensive archival research uncovers Thorp’s impressive contributions not only to moviegoing and its growth in America, but also perhaps even more surprisingly, Thorp’s support of early Black vaudeville in the Jim Crow South. Movie theater entrepreneurs like Thorp, who got her start at her Wonderland Theater in Bucyrus, Ohio, helped create our culture’s insatiable appetite for film. But it was after she established the Dixie in Richmond, that Thorp—a White woman—also saw a market for providing Black-centric entertainment. She converted the Dixie to all-Black patronage and began to bring in scores of Black vaudeville acts. Later, she built the Hippodrome Theater, in the heart of Richmond’s now-historic Jackson Ward, expressly for Black entertainment. Though she eventually left the field of Black entertainment behind, Thorp developed other movie venues in Richmond that brought in tens of thousands of (White) moviegoers over the years and which were widely admired for their elaborate trappings. Thanks to Wong’s research, contemporary readers can now benefit from the story of Amanda Thorp, a woman who amidst severe gender role constraints not only claimed social capacity on the crest of a rapidly growing industry but also, almost inadvertently, contributed to the success of early Black vaudeville, a subject which thus far has not received the scholarly attention it deserves.
A Century of Penn State Wrestling
Author: Information Please Almanac, Atlas and Yearbook, 1989
Author: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780395483503
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Compiles facts and statistics on developments and events in economics, history, sports, science, entertainment, the arts, and numerous other fields.
Iowa State Men's Basketball
Author: American Book Publishing Record
Author: Spartan Sports Encyclopedia
Author: Jack SeiboldPublisher: Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781582612195
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
The complete history of Michigan State's men's athletics program is detailed for the first time, with vignettes about seasons and celebrities and a complete review of scores and statistics.
Iowa State Women's Basketball
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Category : Basketball for women
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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