Author: Mark Green
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780853437024
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: A. W. Stencell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781459651432
Category : Carnivals
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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Author: Jack McCorkle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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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: Marion Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 15

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Author: Carlyn Beccia
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
ISBN: 9781428735705
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages :

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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: 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: Charles G. Finney
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803269071
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression. That is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents. Expecting a sideshow spectacle, the citizens of Abalone instead confront and learn profound lessons from the mythical made real--a chimera, a Medusa, a talking sphinx, a sea serpent, witches, the Hound of the Hedges, a werewolf, a mermaid, an ancient god, and the elusive, ever-changing Dr. Lao. The circus unfolds, spinning magical, dark strands that ensnare the town's populace: the sea serpent's tale shatters love's illusions; the fortune-teller's shocking pronouncements toll the tedium and secret dread of every person's life; sensual undercurrents pour forth for men and women alike; and the dead walk again. Dazzling and macabre, literary and philosophical, The Circus of Dr. Lao has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of speculative fiction and influenced such writers as Ray Bradbury. This Bison Frontiers of Imagination edition features a new introduction by noted fantasy writer John Marco and striking illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff from the first edition.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 860

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Author: Andrea Ringer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252056744
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and animal laborers from around the world put on the show. They also formed the backbone of a tented entertainment industry that raised new questions about what constituted work and who counted as a worker. Andrea Ringer examines the industry-wide circus world--the collection of shows that traveled by rail, wagon, steamboat, and car--and the traditional and nontraditional laborers who created it. Performers and their onstage labor played an integral part in the popularity of the circus. But behind the scenes, other laborers performed the endless menial tasks that kept the show on the road. Circus operators regulated employee behavior both inside and outside the tent even as the employees themselves blurred the line between leisure and labor until, in all parts of the show, the workers could not escape their work. Illuminating and vivid, Circus World delves into the gender, class, and even species concerns within an extinct way of life.