Author: Charles E. WelchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Oh! Dem Golden Slippers
Author: Charles E. WelchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Golden Slippers
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American poetry (American)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader
Author: Susan Vaneta MasonPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472120174
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader is a long-overdue collection of some of the finest political satires created and produced by the Tony Award-winning company during the last forty years. It is also a history of the company that was the theater of the counterculture movement in the 1960s and that, against all odds, has managed to survive the often hostile economic climate for the arts in the United States. The plays selected are diverse, representing some of the Troupe's finest shows, and the book's illustrations capture some of the Troupe's most memorable moments. These hilarious, edgy, and imaginative scripts are accompanied by insightful commentary by theater historian and critic Susan Vaneta Mason, who has been following the Troupe for more than three decades. The Mime Troupe Reader will engage and entertain a wide range of audiences, not only general readers but also those interested in the history of American social protest, the counterculture of the 1960s-particularly the San Francisco scene-and the evolution of contemporary political theater. It will also appeal to the legions of Troupe fans who return every year to see them stand up against another social or corporate Goliath.
Vaudeville old & new
Author: Frank CullenPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415938538
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
Songs for Army and Navy
Author: Young Men's Christian Associations of North America. International Committee. Army and Navy DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Minstrel Songs, Old and New
Author: Heywood and Son's Up-to-date Collection of Nigger Songs and Recitations
Author: Abel Heywood and SonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Songs
Author: The Phono-bretto
Author: On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs
Author: Dorothy ScarboroughPublisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 0369407679
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
How often have I overheard alluring snatches of song, only to be baffled by denial when I asked for more. Kindly black faces smile indulgently as at the vagaries of an imaginative child, when I persist in pleading for the rest. "Nawm, honey, I wa and n and t singing nothing — nothing a-tall! " How often have I been tricked into enthusiasm over the promise of folk-songs, only to hear age-worn phonograph records, — but perhaps so changed and worked upon by usage that they could possibly claim to be folk-songs after all! — or Broadway echoes, or conventional songs by white authors! Yet cajolements might be in vain, even though all the time I knew, by the uncanny instinct of folk-lorists, that there were folk-songs there. And even when you get a song started, when you are listening with your heart in your ear and the greed of the folk-lorist in your eye, you may lose out. If you seem too much interested, the song retreats, draws in like a turtle and s head, and no amount of coaxing will make it venture back. And there is something positively fatal about a pencil! Songs seem to be afraid of lead-poisoning. Or perhaps the pencil is secretly attached by a cord (a vocal cord?) to the singer and s tongue. It must be so, for otherwise, why has it so often happened that when I, distrustful of my tricky memory to hold a precious song, have sneaked a pencil out to take notes, the tongue has suddenly jerked back and refused to wag again? Yet that is not always the case, for sometimes the knowledge that his song is being written down inspires a bard with more respect for it and he gives it freely.