Author: Peter Stanfield Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252070495 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 196
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"In this innovative take on a neglected chapter of film history, Peter Stanfield challenges the commonly held view of the singing cowboy as an ephemeral figure of fun and argues instead that he was one of the most important cultural figures to emerge out of the Great Depression.The rural or newly urban working-class families who flocked to see the latest exploits of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, andother singing cowboys were an audience largely ignored by mainstreamHollywood film. Hard hit by the depression, faced with the threat--and often the reality--of dispossession and dislocation, pressured to adapt to new ways of living, these small-town filmgoers saw their ambitions, fantasies, and desires embodied in the singing cowboy and their social and political circumstances dramatized in ""B"" Westerns.Stanfield traces the singing cowboy's previously uncharted roots in the performance tradition of blackface minstrelsy and its literary antecedents in dime novels, magazine fiction, and the novels of B. M. Bower, showing how silent cinema conventions, the developing commercial music media, and the prevailing conditions of film production shaped the ""horse opera"" of the 1930s. Cowboy songs offered an alternative to the disruptive modern effects of jazz music, while the series Western--tapping into aesthetic principles shunned by the aspiring middle class--emphasized stunts, fist fights, slapstick comedy, disguises, and hidden identities over narrative logic and character psychology. Singing cowboys also linked recording, radio, publishing, live performance, and film media.Entertaining and thought-provoking, Horse Opera recovers not only the forgotten cowboys of the 1930s but also their forgotten audiences: the ordinary men and women whose lives were brightened by the sights and songs of the singing Western."
Author: Jeremy Tambling Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780861964666 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 328
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Offering an arresting range of accounts by specialists in music, media, and popular culture on how the popular arts have represented opera, this book raises issues about the sociology of music and its implications for television and video culture.
Author: Arthur Vernon Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486782999 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 544
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A sweeping panorama of horse-related history and lore that will appeal to readers of all ages, this illustrated book profiles race horses, working and war horses, various breeds, and much more.
Author: Margaret Ross Griffel Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 0810883252 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 1015
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Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an English text (including works both originally prepared in English, as well as English translations). Since its original publication in 1999, Griffel has added nearly 800 entries to the 4,300 from the original volume, covering the world of opera in the English language from 1634 through 2011. Listed alphabetically by letter, each opera entry includes alternative titles, if any; a full, descriptive title; the number of acts; the composer’s name; the librettist’s name, the original language of the libretto, and the original source of the text, with the source title; the date, place, and cast of the first performance; the date of composition, if it occurred substantially earlier than the premiere date; similar information for the first U.S. (including colonial) and British (i.e., in England, Scotland, or Wales) performances, where applicable; a brief plot summary; the main characters (names and vocal ranges, where known); some of the especially noteworthy numbers cited by name; comments on special musical problems, techniques, or other significant aspects; and other settings of the text, including non-English ones, and/or other operas involving the same story or characters (cross references are indicated by asterisks). Entries also include such information as first and critical editions of the score and libretto; a bibliography, ranging from scholarly studies to more informal journal articles and reviews; a discography; and information on video recordings. Griffel also includes four appendixes, a selective bibliography, and two indexes. The first appendix lists composers, their places and years of birth and death, and their operas included in the text as entries; the second does the same for librettists; the third records authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the librettos; and the fourth comprises a chronological listing of the A–Z entries, including as well as the date of first performance, the city of the premiere, the short title of the opera, and the composer. Griffel also include a main character index and an index of singers, conductors, producers, and other key figures.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 132
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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Author: Arthur Tress Publisher: Abbeville Press ISBN: Category : Photography, Artistic Languages : en Pages : 96
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"When the curtain goes up on The Teapot Opera there is no music. There are no people, either. But there are plenty of characters: there's the teapot, of course, and a white plastic stallion, a china harpist, a skull, an expresso machine, chess pieces, fruit, the Michelin Tire man, fragments of a classical sculpture, ancient books, a souvenir bust of Teddy Roosevelt, valves and gauges of all kinds, a Shriner's fez, a glass eyeball, billiard balls, and so much more."--Jacket flap.
Author: L. L. Rigsbee Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781532765933 Category : Languages : en Pages : 96
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When his stagecoach is stopped by robbers and attacked by Indians, Long knows the occupants must depend on his ingenuity. He's been riding shotgun for the stage line a long time and he's never lost a stagecoach...yet. "Apache Pass" is one of ten stories in this collection of short western stories. In "The Heavy Gun," a lone figure walks away from a burned out wagon. That person has one heavy gun and a heavy conscience. In "Perilous Trail," Spencer's wife wants him to hire help, but since they carved a ranch out of wild country without paying anyone so far, he figures there is nothing out there that he can't handle - until he sees a beast he can't identify. As a boy, Larkin witnessed the hanging of an innocent man. When he returns to the town where the hanging took place, he is in a position to exact "Revenge at Sweetwater;" but against whom? Mahto has been a scout for the army long enough to know that when an Indian gets sick, he's out of a job. Now his future lies in the hands of "The Shaman." Davis learns a little something about himself when he meets a bronco he can't bust, in "Duel at the Corral." Reed McEuen hates nesters, so why should he be the one to guide a greenhorn lady and her father out of Comanche Country? Still, he can't leave "The Nester" out there. The boss' son thinks ranching with horses is old fashioned, but Cord Decker knows better. The teen thinks "The Useless Horse" is no match for his ATV, but he learns a hard lesson. Clara's husband leaves her alone at their desert fortress while he goes to get "The New Stock." When renegade Indians attack, Clara's best weapons are patience and ingenuity. The occupants of wagon trains had to face many challenges as they made their way west. How could they defeat a "Prairie Fire?" The book "Horse Opera," is a collection of well written short western stories suitable for the entire family.
Author: Donald Jay Grout Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231119585 Category : Opera Languages : en Pages : 1049
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"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
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