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Author: Roger A. Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-16
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521793209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions.
Author: Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-06-14
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1476606803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot every presidential visit to the theatre is as famous as Lincoln's last night at Ford's, but American presidents attended the theatre long before and long after that ill-fated night. In 1751, George Washington saw his first play, The London Merchant, during a visit to Barbados. John Quincy Adams published dramatic critiques. William McKinley avoided the theatre while in office, on professional as well as moral grounds. Richard Nixon met his wife at a community theatre audition. Surveying 255 years, this volume examines presidential theatre-going as it has reflected shifting popular tastes in America.
Author: Lynne Conner
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780822943303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive history of theater in Pittsburgh is offered in this volume that relates the significant influence and interpretation of urban socioeconomic trends in the theatrical arts and the role of the theater as an agent of social change.
Author: David Weinstein
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781592134991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The heart of David Weinstein's book examines DuMont's programs and personalities, including Dennis James, Captain Video, Morey Amsterdam, Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners, Ernie Kovacs, and Rocky King, Detective. Weinstein uses rare kinescopes, archival photographs, exclusive interviews, trade journal articles, and corporate documents to tell the story of a "forgotten network" that helped invent the very business of network television."--Jacket.
Author: Beth E. Levy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-04-18
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 0520952022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.
Author: Jim Cullen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0470673656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second edition of Popular Culture in American History updates the text for a contemporary readership and explores academic developments in this area of study over the last decade. Fully revised second edition with over 50 percent new material Compact and classroom-friendly format Includes the best writing on popular culture from the 1970s onwards Essays examine pivotal moments, issues, and genres in American popular culture, from the ‘penny press’ to the Internet
Author: Robert A Schanke
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780809327478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComposed of sixteen essays and fifteen illustrations, Angels in the American Theater explores not only how donors became angels but also their backgrounds, motivations, policies, limitations, support, and successes and failures.
Author: Andrew Craig Morrison
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780393731088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe latest title in the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks series, Theaters offers a richly illustrated history of a revered cultural artifact and a technological challenge, following its progression from the eighteenth-century opera house to the modern movie multiplex.
Author: Douglas S Harvey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 131732403X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the years between 1750 and 1860, this study follows the creation and perpetuation of an imperial culture, from the London metropole to the Great Plains.
