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The most American thing in America : circuit Chautauqua as performance / Charlotte M. Canning.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Canning, Charlotte, 1964-
- Series:
- Studies in theatre history and culture.
- Studies in theatre history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chautauquas.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Between 1904 and the Great Depression, Circuit Chautauquas toured the rural United States, reflecting and reinforcing its citizens' ideas, attitudes, and politics every summer through music (the Jubilee Singers, an African American group, were not always welcome in a time when millions of Americans belonged to the KKK), lectures (""Civic Revivalist"" Charles Zueblin speaking on ""Militancy and Morals""), elocutionary readers (Lucille Adams reading from Little Lord Fauntleroy), dramas (the Ben Greet Players' cleaned-up version of She Stoops to Conquer), orations (William Jennings Bryan speaking
- Contents:
- America on the platform
- Community on the platform
- The platform in the tent
- Performance on the platform: oratory
- Performance on the platform: theater.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587295928
- 158729592X
- OCLC:
- 85869775
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