The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua in America (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture) By Charlotte M. Canning
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press 2007-03-15 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1587295857 | PDF | 5.4 MB
Winner of the 2006 Barnard Hewitt Award for Excellence in Theatre History… Between 1904 and the Great Depression, Circuit Chautauquas toured the rural United States, reflecting and reinforcing its citizens’ ideas, attitudes, and politics every summer through music (the Jubilee Singers, an African American group, were not always welcome in a time when millions of Americans belonged to the KKK), lectures (“Civic Revivalist” Charles Zueblin speaking on “Militancy and Morals”), elocutionary readers…