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Author: Fritz A. H. Leuchs
Publisher: Columbia University Germanic Studies
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 522
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of the development of German theatre in New York City in the nineteenth century, focusing on the influence of five major theatres. .
Author: Frederick Adolph Herman Leuchs
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Koegel
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 1580462154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information.
Author: Sabine Haenni
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0816649812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYiddish melodramas about the tribulations of immigration. German plays about alpine tourism. Italian vaudeville performances. Rubbernecking tours of Chinatown. In the New York City of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these seemingly disparate leisure activities played similar roles: mediating the vast cultural, demographic, and social changes that were sweeping the nation's largest city. In The Immigrant Scene, Sabine Haenni reveals how theaters in New York created ethnic entertainment that shaped the culture of the United States in the early twentieth century. Considering the relationship between leisure and mass culture, The Immigrant Scene develops a new picture of the metropolis in which the movement of people, objects, and images on-screen and in the street helped residents negotiate the complexities of modern times. In analyzing how communities engaged with immigrant theaters and the nascent film culture in New York City, Haenni traces the ways in which performance and cinema provided virtual mobility--ways of navigating the socially complex metropolis--and influenced national ideas of immigration, culture, and diversity in surprising and lasting ways.
Author: Annie Polland
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2015-01-08
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 147981105X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart 2 of a three part series, City of promises : a history of the Jews of New York, Deborah Dash Moore, general editor.
Author: Jonathan M. Hess
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0812249585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore Fiddler on the Roof, there was Deborah, a blockbuster melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Deborah and Her Sisters offers the first comprehensive history of this transnational phenomenon, focusing on its ability to bring Jews and non-Jews together during a period of increasing antisemitism.
Author: Jean Lee Cole
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2020-01-27
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1496826566
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2021 Honorable Mention Recipient of the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895–1920 examines an era in which the US population was becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial. Comic artists and writers, hoping to create works that would appeal to a diverse audience, had to formulate a method for making the “other half” laugh. In magazine fiction, vaudeville, and the comic strip, the oppressive conditions of the poor and the marginalized were portrayed unflinchingly, yet with a distinctly comic sensibility that grew out of caricature and ethnic humor. Author Jean Lee Cole analyzes Progressive Era popular culture, providing a critical angle to approach visual and literary humor about ethnicity—how avenues of comedy serve as expressions of solidarity, commiseration, and empowerment. Cole’s argument centers on the comic sensibility, which she defines as a performative act that fosters feelings of solidarity and community among the marginalized. Cole stresses the connections between the worlds of art, journalism, and literature and the people who produced them—including George Herriman, R. F. Outcault, Rudolph Dirks, Jimmy Swinnerton, George Luks, and William Glackens—and traces the form’s emergence in the pages of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s Journal-American and how it influenced popular fiction, illustration, and art. How the Other Half Laughs restores the newspaper comic strip to its rightful place as a transformative element of American culture at the turn into the twentieth century.
Author: Robert Ernst
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1994-10-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780815602903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a historical study of acculturation in New York City. It documents the Americanization of foreign enclaves within the city, showing the effects produced by church, school, foreign-language press and libraries - the methods by which the Democratic Party enlisted the immigrant vote.
Author: Don B. Wilmeth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-02-28
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9780521472043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
