Download or read book Billy Waters is Dancing written by Mary L. Shannon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of William Waters, Black street performer in Regency London, and how his huge celebrity took on a life of its own Every child in Regency London knew Billy Waters, the celebrated “King of the Beggars.” Likely born into enslavement in 1770s New York, he became a Royal Navy sailor. After losing his leg in a fall from the rigging, the talented and irrepressible Waters became London’s most famous street performer. His extravagantly costumed image blazed across the stage and in print to an unprecedented degree. For all his contemporary renown, Waters died destitute in 1823—but his legend would live on for decades. Mary L. Shannon’s biography draws together surviving traces of Waters’ life to bring us closer to the historical figure underlying them. Considering Waters’ influence on the London stage and his echoing resonances in visual art, and writing by Douglass, Dickens, and Thackeray, Shannon asks us to reconsider Black presences in nineteenth-century popular culture. This is a vital attempt to recover a life from historical obscurity—and a fascinating account of what it meant to find fame in the Regency metropolis.
Download or read book Black Personalities in the Era of the Slave Trade written by P. Edwards and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-05-12 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Selection from the Dramatic Works of William T Moncrieff Etc With a Portrait written by William Thomas Moncrieff (pseud. [i.e. William Thomas Thomas.]) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selections from the Dramatic Works of William T Moncrieff written by William Thomas Moncrieff and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The true history of Tom and Jerry or The day and night scenes of life in London with a key to the persons and places together with a vocabulary and glossary of the flash and slang terms by C Hindley written by Pierce Egan and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rare Books Manuscripts and Letters Including the Fine Collection Formed by William Hermann of White Plains N Y to be Sold March 18 and 19 1909 written by William Hermann and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Imagined Londons written by Pamela K. Gilbert and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagined Londons explores the diverse ways that Britain's "global city" has been imagined and represented in literature, history, the arts, and popular culture, from the mid–nineteenth century to the present day. American and British contributors examine a variety of topics, ranging from poetry to architecture, from dance music to gay pornography, from "tube" maps to the role of Bangladeshi communities in shaping contemporary London politics. Broadly interdisciplinary and deeply attentive to London's historical diversity, the book is unified by its attention to a single question: How have the many imaginations and representations of London shaped—and been shaped by—history and culture? The answers provided within this volume offer the chance to view London in surprising new ways.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are books about folk dances from individual countries or regions, there isn’t a single comprehensive book on folk dances across the globe. This illustrated compendium offers the student, teacher, choreographer, historian, media critic, ethnographer, and general reader an overview of the evolution and social and religious significance of folk dance. The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance focuses on the uniqueness of kinetic performance and its contribution to the study and appreciation of rhythmic expression around the globe. Following a chronology of momentous events dating from prehistory to the present day, the entries in this volume include material on technical terms, character roles, and specific dances. The entries also summarize the historical and ethnic milieu of each style and execution, highlighting, among other elements, such features as: origins purpose rituals and traditions props dress holidays themes
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Download or read book The Politics of Romantic Theatricality 1787 1832 written by D. Worrall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene.
Download or read book Word and Image written by Julius Bryant and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2015 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates Britain's National Art Library, the first of what was a new kind of museum library, formed in the 19th century by and for artists, designers, and artisans; and intensively used by them and later by the public. Here are more than 100 objects that have helped to define and redefine the subject and scope of the history of the fine and decorative arts, from a 15th-century book of hours to George Cruikshank's studies of Fagin for Oliver Twist to an Yves Saint Laurent design for the House of Dior and Bill Brandt's photos, Word and Image explores some of the world's finest examples of books.
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