A Century of Players, Performers, and Pageants
Title | A Century of Players, Performers, and Pageants PDF eBook |
Author | Curtis C. Roseman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2014-03-15 |
Genre | Browning Field |
ISBN | 9780984142910 |
This history tells the story of the many sporting, entertainment, and community events held at Wharton Field House and the adjacent Browning Field in Moline, Illinois. Since 1928, Wharton has hosted big name entertainers, pageants of all descriptions, high school, college, and professional basketball, and countless other events. Beginning in 1912 Browning has hosted high school and professional football and baseball, along with other events. The book includes 460 images, mostly historical photographs that depict the rich history of these venues.
Pageant
Title | Pageant PDF eBook |
Author | Joan FitzPatrick Dean |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2021-07-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1350144533 |
Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form. By enacting highly selective historical episodes, pageants manipulate audiences' sense of the past. Through iconic music, affecting images, and vernacular forms, pageants express and, in turn, shape religious, civic, or political allegiances. Freely appropriating elements of history plays, patriotic celebrations, opera, and film, pageants create spectacles of sensory overload. Impressive recent scholarship recognizes pageants as public history, but this is the first authoritative account of the origins, characteristics, and techniques of pageants as a theatrical idiom. Performed in sporting arenas, the open air, or purpose-built theatres, these paratheatrical events express identity through what Erika Fischer-Lichte calls “the re-theatricalization of theatre.” Pageants are intimately connected with power-they either assert and celebrate it or seek and demand it. Medieval religious pageants were so popular and powerful that they were suppressed and extinguished. The vogue for pageantry that swept through the English-speaking world in the decade before WWI was closely tied to the expansion of the franchise. Many early twentieth century pageants celebrated localities; others subversively advocated for women's suffrage. First performed in 1909, Cicely Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women depicted historical personages from the near and distant past as well as allegorical figures such as Justice and Prejudice. Today, the Olympic Games mandate an opening ceremony that “details the country's history, culture, and overall importance for the global community.” London delivered just such a pageant in 2012. This book features a wide-ranging introduction that maps the cultural evolution of this enduring theatrical form and covers popular and readily accessible pageants from medieval England, the early twentieth century, and our own day.
Sacred Players
Title | Sacred Players PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Hill-Vásquez |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2007-03 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0813214971 |
Offering a unique historical perspective to the study of medieval English drama, Heather Hill-Vásquez in Sacred Players argues that different treatments of audience and performance in the early drama indicate that the performance life of the drama may have continued well beyond its traditional placement in medieval history and into the Reformation and Renaissance eras.
A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne
Title | A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Adolphus William Ward |
Publisher | |
Pages | 602 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
Musicians' Magazine
Title | Musicians' Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Bulletin [1908-23]
Title | Bulletin [1908-23] PDF eBook |
Author | Boston Public Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | |
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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Title | Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians PDF eBook |
Author | George Grove |
Publisher | |
Pages | 884 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Music |
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