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For a Short Time Only
Peter Benes
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Description for For a Short Time Only
Hardback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 120 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JF; ASZ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1270.
By the 1740s, colonists living in North America began to encounter scores of itinerant performers from England and Europe. These show people—acrobats, wire dancers, tumblers, trick riders, painters, dancing-masters, waxworks proprietors, healers, and singing and language teachers—brought novelty and culture to remote areas. Advertising in newspapers, they attracted audiences with the hook of appearing “for a short time only.”
In this richly illustrated and deeply researched book, Peter Benes examines the rise of early American popular culture through the lives and work of itinerants who circulated in British North America and the United States from the late seventeenth through ... Read more
By the 1740s, colonists living in North America began to encounter scores of itinerant performers from England and Europe. These show people—acrobats, wire dancers, tumblers, trick riders, painters, dancing-masters, waxworks proprietors, healers, and singing and language teachers—brought novelty and culture to remote areas. Advertising in newspapers, they attracted audiences with the hook of appearing “for a short time only.”
In this richly illustrated and deeply researched book, Peter Benes examines the rise of early American popular culture through the lives and work of itinerants who circulated in British North America and the United States from the late seventeenth through ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625341990
SKU
V9781625341990
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About Peter Benes
Peter Benes is director of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife in affiliation with Historic Deerfield, Inc., in Deerfield, Massachusetts. His previous books include Meetinghouses of Early New England (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012), winner of the 2014 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
Reviews for For a Short Time Only
This is an original and scholarly study, based on an impressively deep knowledge of a cultural world that we have lost, and so a book with wide potential appeal.""—Peter Burke, author of A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia ""For a Short Time Only is a masterful work of research.""—David Jaffe, author of A New ... Read more