Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960 : Making Tracks.
This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. This book investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circus--removing t...
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2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
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Table of Contents:
- List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors AcknowledgmentsEditors' IntroductionEditors' Introduction: Kate Flaherty and Gilli Bush-BaileyVanishing Acts and Making Tracks1: Diana James and Inawinytji Williamson Kungkarangkalpa: Travelling Women of the Seven Sisters Songline Part One: Ephemerality and creative methodology2: Joanne Tompkins and Liyang XiaMid-Nineteenth-Century Cantonese Opera Performances in the Victorian Goldfields3: Jacky Bratton and Gilli Bush-Bailey Bodies of Evidence: The unremarkable history of Emma Stanley (1816-1881)4: Anna-Sophie Jürgens Lady Clowns: Clown-Ballerinas, Dancing "Clownesses" and Female Clowns on the Popular Stage around 19005: Jane Woollard (University of Tasmania)Tracks, Knots, Stage Tact and Boots: A ReflectionPart Two: Peril, illness and ageing6: Marlis Schweitzer "It was a most beautiful moonlit night--7: Peta Tait Risk and Colonial Touring: Female Circus Performers in Aerial and Lion Acts8: Janice Norwood Reading Race, Repertoire and Transcontinental Reception through Madame Celeste's Colonial Encounter9: Kerry Murphy "Covent Garden on Wheels" Thomas Quinlan's Operatic tours of 1912-1914 and beyond10: Laura Ginters "Let me come to Athens [/Lamplough], shelter me, accept me in your home":Medea Transported to the Goldfields and Beyond in Nineteenth-Century Australia.Part Three: Reversing flows / Cross currents11: Kate Flaherty Fanny Kemble, Slavery, and Transatlantic Commodity Trade12: Katherine K. PrestonWomen Take Control: Managers of English-Language Opera Companies in Late 19th-Century America13: Sarah Balkin Transporting Humour: Artemus Ward and American Comedy in Britain14: Gillian ArrighiAustralian Child Actors on Early Twentieth-century Touring Circuits15: Mark Houlahan Crossing the Ditch: Trans-Tasman Stages 1841-189616: Veronica Kelly (University of Queensland) Between the "theatre game" and anthropology: international and indigenous black women entertainers perform modernity in Australia 1950s-1960s.