Author: Elizabeth T. Craft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197550401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"Composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor George M. Cohan (1878-1942) definitively shaped the burgeoning genre of musical comedy and the institution of Broadway in the early twentieth century. Remembered today for classic tunes like "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Give My Regards to Broadway," he has been called "the father of musical comedy" and is memorialized with a statue in Times Square. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. His songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism. This book, the first on Cohan in fifty years and the first scholarly study on the subject, is not a biography but rather situates Cohan as a central figure of his day, placing his multifaceted contributions within overlapping historical and cultural contextual webs to examine his wide-ranging cultural impact. Chapters interweave discussion of his songs and shows with explorations of the roles he played in public life-entertainer, Broadway magnate, Irish American, celebrity, and, above all, emblem of patriotism. This approach offers not only a fuller understanding of his shows and career but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States"--
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Author: Elizabeth T. Craft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197550401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"Composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor George M. Cohan (1878-1942) definitively shaped the burgeoning genre of musical comedy and the institution of Broadway in the early twentieth century. Remembered today for classic tunes like "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Give My Regards to Broadway," he has been called "the father of musical comedy" and is memorialized with a statue in Times Square. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. His songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism. This book, the first on Cohan in fifty years and the first scholarly study on the subject, is not a biography but rather situates Cohan as a central figure of his day, placing his multifaceted contributions within overlapping historical and cultural contextual webs to examine his wide-ranging cultural impact. Chapters interweave discussion of his songs and shows with explorations of the roles he played in public life-entertainer, Broadway magnate, Irish American, celebrity, and, above all, emblem of patriotism. This approach offers not only a fuller understanding of his shows and career but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197550401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
"Composer, lyricist, playwright, performer, director, theater owner, and star actor George M. Cohan (1878-1942) definitively shaped the burgeoning genre of musical comedy and the institution of Broadway in the early twentieth century. Remembered today for classic tunes like "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Give My Regards to Broadway," he has been called "the father of musical comedy" and is memorialized with a statue in Times Square. In his day, he was famous as the "Yankee Doodle Boy" from his hit song and as the "Man Who Owned Broadway" from his musical of the same name. His songs and shows captured the spirit of an era when staggering social change gave new urgency to efforts to define Americanism. This book, the first on Cohan in fifty years and the first scholarly study on the subject, is not a biography but rather situates Cohan as a central figure of his day, placing his multifaceted contributions within overlapping historical and cultural contextual webs to examine his wide-ranging cultural impact. Chapters interweave discussion of his songs and shows with explorations of the roles he played in public life-entertainer, Broadway magnate, Irish American, celebrity, and, above all, emblem of patriotism. This approach offers not only a fuller understanding of his shows and career but also new perspectives on fundamental debates about American identity and the performing arts in the early twentieth-century United States"--
Dogdom
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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Yankee Prince
Author: Ward Morehouse
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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The Prince and the Yankee
Author: Robert N. White
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857715917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Beautiful, vivacious and fearless, Agnes Leclerc was 21 years old when she met Prince Felix Salm, a Prussian officer in the Union Army at the outbreak of the US Civil War. Their marriage took Agnes from small-town America to the royal palaces of Europe. She accompanied Felix on his Civil War campaigns, followed him to Mexico to fight for Emperor Maximilian, then returned home to his ancestral castle in Germany and war with France. Presidents, governors and generals succumbed to her charms. She pleaded with the implacable Benito Juarez for Maximilian's life and the German Kaiser honoured her for her heroism during the Franco-Prussian War. Although Felix's life was cut short in 1870, Agnes lived out the rest of her life as a stately European aristocrat.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857715917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Beautiful, vivacious and fearless, Agnes Leclerc was 21 years old when she met Prince Felix Salm, a Prussian officer in the Union Army at the outbreak of the US Civil War. Their marriage took Agnes from small-town America to the royal palaces of Europe. She accompanied Felix on his Civil War campaigns, followed him to Mexico to fight for Emperor Maximilian, then returned home to his ancestral castle in Germany and war with France. Presidents, governors and generals succumbed to her charms. She pleaded with the implacable Benito Juarez for Maximilian's life and the German Kaiser honoured her for her heroism during the Franco-Prussian War. Although Felix's life was cut short in 1870, Agnes lived out the rest of her life as a stately European aristocrat.
The Advanced Register Year Book of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Author: Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Publisher:
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description
Yankee Prince
Author: George Michael Cohan
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Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
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Category : Librettos
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Autobiography of a Yankee Mariner
Author: Michael J. Crawford
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612341772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Prince recalls his life at sea, including service as a privateer during the Revolution.
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612341772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Prince recalls his life at sea, including service as a privateer during the Revolution.
The Burr McIntosh Monthly
Author: Burr McIntosh
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Confined almost exclusively to illustrations and photographs.
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Confined almost exclusively to illustrations and photographs.
The Burr McIntosh Monthly
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Dog Fancier
Author: Eugene Glass
Publisher:
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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description