Performing the Progressive Era
Subtitle: immigration, urban life, and nationalism on stage
By: edited by Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate
Series: Studies in theatre history and culture; Studies in theatre history and culture
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781609386474
Subjects: Performing arts; History; Theater and society; Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Laurence Senelick; title: Rural life with urban strife: the evolution of rural drama in the late nineteenth century / by Amy Arbogast; title: Marching off-beat and on screen: New York City's reform movements & Charles Hale Hoyt's A milk white flag / by Hillary Miller; title: 'Wasn't America crowded enough wid out you forrinners?': staging immigration, assimilation, and social mobility in the Rooseveltian nation / by J. Chris Westgate; title: Systematic Vaudeville and systematic farce: the unlikely team of Taylor and Schmidt / by Michael Schwartz; title: Immigrant civic performances and historical pageantry: Columbus Day in Chicago, 1892/1913 / by Megan E. Geigner; title: "Art in democracy" in the early houses of the Cleveland Play House / by Les Hunter; title: New women and girls of today in motion: the "strenuous clasping" of tango teas / by Ariel Nereson; title: Keaton, class, and social control: comic Vaudeville in the Progressive Era / by Rick Desrochers; title: Celebrating childhood on the Vaudeville stage / by Gillian Arrighi; title: Monstrosity or medical miracle?: incubator baby sideshows and the contradictions of the Progressive Era / by Susan Kattwinkel; title: The Progressive Era's doctor-doper dyad / by Max Shulman; title: Conclusion / by Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate.