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  • Here Comes The Showboat! by Betty Bryant

    Here Comes The Showboat!

    ”I was born at the tail end of a unique and delightful era and raised on one of the last showboats to struggle for survival against the devastating crunch of progress. . . . Our showboat’s express purpose was carrying entertainment to hundreds of thousands of river-bottom farmers along our water-bordered frontier."—from the book

    Betty Bryant was a river rat. The Floating Theater was her home, and the river was her back yard. While other children were learning to walk, she was learning to swim. She knew how to set a trotline, gig a frog, catch a crawdad, and strip ...Read More

  • The Theatre in Early Kentucky: 1790-1820 by West T. Hill Jr.

    The Theatre in Early Kentucky: 1790-1820

    This comprehensive study shows that the stage was active in Kentucky long before the first professional troupe toured in 1815. During the period covered, 1790–1820, Lexington, Frankfort, and Louisville became the major theatrical centers in the West. Performances on Kentucky stages far outnumbered those in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Nashville, or New Orleans. Drawing upon accounts in contemporary newspapers, West T. Hill Jr. demonstrates that drama had developed west of the mountains a full quarter century prior to the date given in theatre histories.

    The Theatre in Early Kentucky, 1790–1820 captures the full flavor and color of the promoters, managers, ...Read More

  • American Vaudeville as Ritual by Albert F. McLean Jr.

    American Vaudeville as Ritual

    This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticism or the familiar patterns of anthropological study.

    Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a ...Read More

 
 
 

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