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Author: Barry Longyear
Publisher: Open Road Distribution
Published: 2016-04-12
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781504030045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two hundred years earlier, a circus starship is stranded on the Planet Momus. Recently discovered by the rest of the galaxy, the population of Momus--the remaining descendants of the original circus--must deal with interstellar power politics and war, and they do so in their own special way.
Author: Rupert Croft-Cooke
Publisher: London : Elek
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated historical account of the circus's origins and development and of its lore and legends, describing acts and performers from the Circus Maximus to Madison Square Garden.
Author: Andrew Zimbalist
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0815738625
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beyond the headlines of the world's most beloved sporting events Brazil hosted the 2016 men's World Cup at a cost of $15 billion to $20 billion, building large, new stadiums in cities that have little use for them anymore. The projected cost of Tokyo's 2020 Summer Olympic Games is estimated to be as high as $30 billion, much of it coming from the public trough. In the updated and expanded edition of his bestselling book, Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, Andrew Zimbalist tackles the claim that cities chosen to host these high-profile sporting events experience an economic windfall. In this new edition he looks at upcoming summer and winter Olympic games, discusses the recent Women's World Cup, and the upcoming men's tournament in Qatar. Circus Maximus focuses on major cities, like London, Rio, and Barcelona, that have previously hosted these sporting events, to provide context for future host cities that will bear the weight of exploding expenses, corruption, and protests. Zimbalist offers a sobering and candid look at the Olympics and the World Cup from outside the echo chamber.
Author: Andrea Ringer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2024-07-09
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 0252056744
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and animal laborers from around the world put on the show. They also formed the backbone of a tented entertainment industry that raised new questions about what constituted work and who counted as a worker. Andrea Ringer examines the industry-wide circus world--the collection of shows that traveled by rail, wagon, steamboat, and car--and the traditional and nontraditional laborers who created it. Performers and their onstage labor played an integral part in the popularity of the circus. But behind the scenes, other laborers performed the endless menial tasks that kept the show on the road. Circus operators regulated employee behavior both inside and outside the tent even as the employees themselves blurred the line between leisure and labor until, in all parts of the show, the workers could not escape their work. Illuminating and vivid, Circus World delves into the gender, class, and even species concerns within an extinct way of life.
Author: Barry B. Longyear
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780425047095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two hundred years earlier, a circus starship is stranded on the Planet Momus. Recently discovered by the rest of the galaxy, the population of Momus the remaining descendants of the original circus must deal with interstellar power politics and war, and they do so in their own special way.
Author: Circus World Museum (Baraboo, Wis.)
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kate Holmes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0429594313
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Female solo aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s were internationally popular performers in the largest live performance mass entertainment of the period in the UK and USA. Yet these aerialists and this period in circus history have been largely forgotten despite the iconic image of ‘the’ female aerialist still flaring in the popular imagination. Kate Holmes uses insights gained as a practitioner to reconstruct in detail the British and American performances and public personae of key stars such as Lillian Leitzel, Luisita Leers, and the Flying Codonas, revealing what is performed and implicit in today’s practice. Using a wealth of original sources, this book considers the forgotten stars whose legacy of the cultural image of the female aerialist echoes. Locating performers within wider cultural histories of sport, glamour, and gender, this book asks important questions about their stardom, including: Why were female aerialists so alluring when their muscularity challenged conservative ideals of femininity and how did they participate in change? What was it about their movements and the spaces they performed in that activated such strong audience responses? This book is vital reading for students and practitioners of aerial performance, circus, gender, popular performance, and performance studies.
Author: Terry Wait Klefstad
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2018-08-16
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1496818679
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A pianist, arranger, and composer, William Pursell is a mainstay of the Nashville music scene. He has played jazz in Nashville's Printer's Alley with Chet Atkins and Harold Bradley, recorded with Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline, performed with the Nashville Symphony, and composed and arranged popular and classical music.Pursell's career, winding like a crooked river between classical and popular genres, encompasses a striking diversity of musical experiences. A series of key choices sent him down different paths, whether it was reenrolling with the Air Force for a second tour of duty, leaving the prestigious Eastman School of Music to tour with an R&B band, or refusing to sign with the Beatles' agent Sid Bernstein. The story of his life as a working musician is unlike any other--he is not a country musician nor a popular musician nor a classical musician but, instead, an artist who refused to be limited by traditional categories. Crooked River City is driven by a series of recollections and personal anecdotes Terry Wait Klefstad assembled over a three-year period of interviews with Pursell. His story is one not only of talent, but of dedication and hard work, and of the ins and outs of a working musician in America. This biography fills a crucial gap in Nashville music history for both scholars and music fans.
Author: Jill Ryder
Publisher: Carriage Assoc. of America
Published: 2002-08-01
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Features All the Queen's Horses 143 Coaching in Norfolk 2002 147 Exhibiting Horse-drawn Vehicles, Part II 149 Successful Tailgating Requires Planning 152 Cooper's Coach 154 E.T. Clemmons and his "Hattie Butner" 158 The Frank Lloyd Wright Carriages 166 Tips for Barn Builders 172 Departments The View from the Box 142 Tack Room Talk 157 The Road Behind: Collection, Part I 162 Memories Mostly Horsy 164
