Dan Rice

Name: Dan Rice
Brand: PublicAffairs,U.S.
SKU: 9781586482398
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The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of

Автор: David Carlyon

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: PublicAffairs,U.S.

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Dan Rice had many lives. He was a pig presenter, a strongman, a lecturer, and a comic singer, all be...

Информация за книгата

Автор

David Carlyon

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2004

страници

528

EAN

9781586482398

ISBN

1586482394

Enbook ID

04825033

Издател

PublicAffairs,U.S.

Теглоt

800

Размери

229 x 155 x 32

Пълно описание

Dan Rice had many lives. He was a pig presenter, a strongman, a lecturer, and a comic singer, all before joining the dazzling world of the circus. In 1855, he created Dan Rice's Great Show. Labeling himself the "Great American Humorist," he toured the country and spoke out on issues of the day before large crowds. Swept up in a new cult of celebrity, he rose to become one of the most famous--and infamous--men in America. He even ran for president. So why have so few people ever heard of Dan Rice? Propelled by an urge toward "refinement," American amusements began to stratify in the mid-19th century. The raucous antebellum jumble of performers, audiences, and forms split along a new performance hierarchy of high and low. Circus, though still vastly popular, became seen as lowbrow. In that changed world, Rice's aggressive humor and robust connection with a noisy, participatory audience became seen as crude--and worse--a civic threat. David Carlyon weaves a remarkably rich portrait of turbulent times that raised one ambitious, creative man to glorious heights and then, embarrassed by its enthusiasm, buried him in sentimentality and finally oblivion.

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