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CFP: Popular Entertainment and American Theater prior to 1900
A Special Issue of Comparative Drama
Living as we do in an age dominated by such mechanically reproducible media as television, cinema, and photography, we are often hard-pressed to recall that for most Americans prior to 1900, the most widely available and accessible medium of visual entertainment was theater (and theater-like productions). From Royall Tyler to Augustin Daly, from Uncle Tom?s Cabin to P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill, the late 18th- and 19th- centuries offered a stunning array of staged performances that not only offered idle amusement
but also crafted and reflected the very frameworks within which knowledge of the world could be organized or produced.
This special issue of Comparative Drama seeks to illuminate and explore the wide range of theatrical productions in the United States before 1900. Topics may include (but need not be limited to): popular melodrama; minstrelsy; touring performers and performances; Wild West shows, historical reenactments, and Indian plays; museums and traveling circuses; the rise of the Broadway impresario; the development of stage realism; technological innovation and stagecraft; race and gender as factors in popularity and/or
appeals to specific audience(s); humbugs and hoaxes; regionalism and theater; the relationship of theater with other arts (i.e., the contributions and/or representations crafted by painters, photographers, and novelists); social and cultural performance beyond the formal stage. Send completed essays (25 pages max., double-spaced) to:
Nicolas S Witschi
Dept. of English
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331.
Any queries may be directed to Nicolas Witschi at [email protected]
For manuscript preparation guidelines, please see:
http://www.wmich.edu/compdr/Pages/submissi.html
Deadline: July 31, 2005
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CFP: Popular Entertainment and American Theater prior to 1900
CFP: Popular Entertainment and American Theater prior to 1900
A Special Issue of Comparative Drama
Living as we do in an age dominated by such mechanically reproducible media as television, cinema, and photography, we are often hard-pressed to recall that for most Americans prior to 1900, the most widely available and accessible medium of visual entertainment was theater (and theater-like productions). From Royall Tyler to Augustin Daly, from Uncle Tom?s Cabin to P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill, the late 18th- and 19th- centuries offered a stunning array of staged performances that not only offered idle amusement
but also crafted and reflected the very frameworks within which knowledge of the world could be organized or produced.
This special issue of Comparative Drama seeks to illuminate and explore the wide range of theatrical productions in the United States before 1900. Topics may include (but need not be limited to): popular melodrama; minstrelsy; touring performers and performances; Wild West shows, historical reenactments, and Indian plays; museums and traveling circuses; the rise of the Broadway impresario; the development of stage realism; technological innovation and stagecraft; race and gender as factors in popularity and/or
appeals to specific audience(s); humbugs and hoaxes; regionalism and theater; the relationship of theater with other arts (i.e., the contributions and/or representations crafted by painters, photographers, and novelists); social and cultural performance beyond the formal stage. Send completed essays (25 pages max., double-spaced) to:
Nicolas S Witschi
Dept. of English
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331.
Any queries may be directed to Nicolas Witschi at [email protected]
http://www.wmich.edu/compdr/Pages/submissi.html
Deadline: July 31, 2005
- Cfp: Annual Joint Conference Of The Popular Culture And American Culture/swpca Associations: Biographies Area
CFP: Annual Joint Conference of the Popular Culture and American Culture/SWPCA Associations: Biographies Area San Antonio, Texas: April 20-23, 2011 Proposal Deadline: December 15, 2010 The annual joint conference of the Popular Culture and American Culture...
- Cfp:spectacular Diversity: Theatrical Entertainment In Small-town America
CFP:Spectacular Diversity: Theatrical Entertainment in Small-Town America Location: Iowa, United States Call for Papers Date: 2008-02-15 The Theatre Museum of Repertoire Americana invites submissions for papers, performances, or panel discussions pertaining...
- Cfp: Americana: Journal For American Popular Culture
Deadline: October 15, 2004 Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) invitessubmissions for the fall 2004 edition.We publish analytical work in the fields of American studies, cultural studies, history, film and television studies,...
- Meet The Artists: Synetic Theater
On Monday, June 20 at 7:00 p.m., Ann-Marie Dittmman of the Shirlington Branch Library will sit down for a conversation with the Synetic Theater's Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili and actor Dan Istate, followed by an audience Q&A. Synetic...
- From Page To Stage, With Shirlington And Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre is ?dark? on Mondays, but the lights are on at the Shirlington Branch Library. Join us from 7-8 p.m. on the first Monday of each month for our meet-the-artist series, when Signature staff and guest artists sit down for a engaging...