Author: Duane Eldon ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : River boats
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A History of Showboats on the Western Rivers
Author: Duane Eldon ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : River boats
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A History of Showboats on the Western Rivers
Author: Duane Eldon ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : River boats
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Showboats
Author: Philip GrahamPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292775555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book is a delightful and authoritative record of America's showboats from the first one, launched in 1831, to the last, ultimately tied up at a St. Louis dock. It is also a record of the men and women who built and loved these floating theaters, of those who performed on their stages, and of the thousands who sat in their auditoriums. And, lastly, it is a record of a genuine folk institution, as American as catfish, which for more than a century did much to relieve the social and cultural starvation of our vast river frontier. For these showboats brought their rich cargoes of entertainment—genuine laughter, a glimpse of other worlds, a respite from the grinding hardship of the present, emotional relaxation—to valley farmers, isolated factory workers and miners, and backwoodsmen who otherwise would have lacked all such opportunities. To the more privileged , the showboats brought pleasant reminder of a half-forgotten culture. They penetrated regions where churches and school had not gone, and where land theaters were for generations to be impossible. Like circuit preachers, they carried their message to the outer fringes of American civilization. In spite of many faults, it was a good message. The frontier had created this institution to fill a genuine need, and it lasted only until other and better means of civilizing these regions could reach them—good roads, automobiles, motion pictures, schools, churches, newspapers, and theaters. But although the showboats have passed into history, they have left a rich legacy. As long as the Mississippi flows into the Gulf, their story will fire the imagination of Americans. Showboating has become so legendary that few Americans know what this unique institution was really like. In Showboats, at long last, the true story emerges. It differs in many important respects from the motion picture and fictional versions to which Americans are accustomed, but it is not a whit the less glamorous. Philip Graham has told his story with imagination, genuine insight, and complete devotion to facts. No one who is interested in America's past should fail to read it.
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Author: Don B. WilmethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521472043
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theatre in all its dimensions, from theatre building to play writing, directors, performers, and designers. Engaging the theatre as a performance art, a cultural institution, and a fact of American social and political life, the History recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. The History approaches its subject with a full awareness of relevant developments in literary criticism, cultural analysis, and performance theory. At the same time, it is designed to be an accessible, challenging narrative. Volume One deals with the colonial inceptions of American theatre through the post-Civil War period: the European antecedents, the New World influences of the French and Spanish colonists, and the development of uniquely American traditions in tandem with the emergence of national identity.
Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803–1840
Author: Kathleen M. ByrdPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807182869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Kathleen M. Byrd’s Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803–1840 is an examination of one French Creole community as it transitioned from a fur-trading and agricultural settlement under the control of Spain to a critical American outpost on the Spanish/American frontier and finally to a commercial hub and jumping-off point for those heading west. Byrd focuses on historic events in the area and the long-term French Creole residents as they adapted to the American presence. She also examines the effect of the arrival of the Americans, with their Indian trading house and Indian agency, on Native groups and considers how members of the enslaved population took advantage of opportunities for escape presented by a new international border. Byrd shows how the arrival of Americans forever changed Natchitoches, transforming it from a sleepy frontier settlement into a regional commercial center and staging point for pioneers heading into Texas.
Bulletin of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Author: Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Missouri A Guide to the "Show Me" State
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher: US History Publishers
ISBN: 1603540245
Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
The History of the Theater in Columbus, Georgia from 1828 to 1865
Author: Helen Barker KellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Author: John Hanners