Author: A. W. Stencell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781550228809
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The follow-up to Seeing is Believing (ECW Press, 2002) tells the fascinating story of the carnival in words and pictures. Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo follows the development of the circus sideshow with interviews and stories from sideshow workers that explain the role of freaks, working acts, managers and talkers and explores how important grift was to circuses and how it became located inside the sideshow.
Author: Carlyn Beccia
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618717187
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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A rhyming alphabetical description of Big Top life and attractions, interspersed with facts about particular circus acts and personalities of the past.
Author: Jack McCorkle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Marion Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Author: Michael Raleigh
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402202384
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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A carnival of wild and wondrous characters from another time, in an absolutely unforgettable place.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Author: Mark Green
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780853437024
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Author: Beth Macy
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316337560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.
