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From Barnum & Bailey to Feld
Author: Ernest Albrecht
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1476617775
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since its inception in 1872, the Greatest Show on Earth has continually transformed itself to meet changing tastes and cultural shifts. Over the course of its long existence, it has been at various times a biblical spectacle and historical pageant, a ceremonial introduction to the peoples and cultures of the world, and a fairy tale masque. It has also featured sights ranging from gladiatorial combat and aerial daredevils to oddities of nature and foolhardy wonders. This work chronicles the colorful artistry of the Greatest Show on Earth from its beginning to 2010, revealing how each of 12 changes in management brought about changes in style and content. More than 50 photographs bring the flamboyant performers and amazing spectacles to life in this informative appreciation of the circus and its evolution.
Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s
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.
Circus World
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.
The O’Hara Concern
Author: Matthew J. Bruccoli
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 1975-07-15
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 0822974711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive biography of short story writer John O’Hara.
A Ringling by Any Other Name
Author: Ernest J. Albrecht
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All the power plays, legal worries, and showmanship that gave North controlling interest in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and made him enormously controversial are detailed in this study, along with the shifting fortunes of the circus itself. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Port
Circus Kings Our Ringling Family Story
Author: Henry Ringling North
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2019-11-22
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1839740442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Circus Kings, first published in 1960 and authored by a nephew of the original Ringling Brothers, is a fascinating insider's account of circus life and lore. From humble beginnings in Baraboo, Wisconsin, the Ringling family would go on to create “The Greatest Show on Earth,” delighting audiences across America. Along the way, however, were the behind-the-scenes financial struggles, tragedies such as fires and labor strikes, legal battles, and changing entertainment tastes. Henry Ringling North ran Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1936 to 1967, along with his older brother, John. Included are 18 pages of photographs. "Told in the first person with spirit, modesty, and almost stunning candor, . . . [North's] intimate documentary of a restless, quarreling, affectionate, often vulgar, innately genteel, greedy and generous, tricky but honest, vividly imaginative clan comes perilously close to being a tour de force. . . . A wonderful and worthwhile book."--New York Times Book Review "A fascinating, excellently written book for everyone, young or old, who has ever loved a circus."—Herald Tribune Book Review
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
Published: 1941
Total Pages: 1274
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Catalog of Copyright Entries
The Circus Age
Author: Janet M. Davis
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-10-15
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0807861499
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyone could go to the show. In this entertaining and provocative book, Janet Davis links the flowering of the early-twentieth-century American railroad circus to such broader historical developments as the rise of big business, the breakdown of separate spheres for men and women, and the genesis of the United States' overseas empire. In the process, she casts the circus as a powerful force in consolidating the nation's identity as a modern industrial society and world power. Davis explores the multiple "shows" that took place under the big top, from scripted performances to exhibitions of laborers assembling and tearing down tents to impromptu spectacles of audiences brawling, acrobats falling, and animals rampaging. Turning Victorian notions of gender, race, and nationhood topsy-turvy, the circus brought its vision of a rapidly changing world to spectators--rural as well as urban--across the nation. Even today, Davis contends, the influence of the circus continues to resonate in popular representations of gender, race, and the wider world.
