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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: Peter Stanfield Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252070495 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
"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: 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: Derham Groves Publisher: ISBN: 9780987609212 Category : Cassidy, Hopalong (Fictitious character) Languages : en Pages : 100
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Includes the libretto for a 'science fiction space opera' based on Hopalong Cassidy's visit to Darwin in 1954, and a non-fiction account of that visit.
Author: Derham Groves Publisher: Hog Press ISBN: 9780984894246 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 176
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An Outline1. It begins with an ?academic? essay about William Boyd aka Hopalong Cassidy's visit to Darwin, Australia, in 1954.2. Next it has a storyboard (41 collages with accompanying dialogue), which has an academic introduction.3. Finally it has over 100 photos of surreal puppets of the storyboard's characters.
Author: Arthur Tress Publisher: Abbeville Press ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit 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: Jeffrey M. Jones Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 52
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Typescript dated June1,2005. Without music. Typescript of a revision of a musical play originally presented from March 20 through April 11, 1992, at the Ontological Theatre in St. Mark's Church, 131 East Tenth Street, New York, N.Y.
Author: Ethan Lipton Publisher: ISBN: 9780573707070 Category : Demoniac possession Languages : en Pages : 80
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In a small town in the Old West, the mayor can't keep his people from running away or dying at the hands of the local brute. And just when things can't get any worse, an omen predicts that a demon ghost might soon return to possess one of the town's few remaining people, and then to ravage the rest. Which tyrant will be more awful, the demon or the brute? And assuming the mayor can't save the day - for it seems he can't do much - will Catalina, the town vagrant, be the one who steps up? Tumacho considers hope in the face of evil, the community struggle to act, and demon cuisine, all in a deadpan ode to comedies of yore. -- Publisher website.
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