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Dan Rice : the most famous man you've never heard of

著者: David Carlyon
出版商: New York : Public Affairs, ©2001.
版本/格式:   图书 : 传记 : 英语 : 1st ed查看所有的版本和格式
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"Dan Rice, alone in the world as a boy, had tried whatever came to hand. He was a pig presenter, strongman, lecturer, comic singer, and blackface performer. Then he joined the glittering world of circus and quickly rose to prominence as a talking clown, tossing out quips, quoting Shakespeare, singing about bloomers, and feuding with Horace Greeley. He named his own circus "Dan Rice's Great Show" and labeled himself
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类型/形式: Biography
附加的形体格式: Online version:
Carlyon, David.
Dan Rice.
New York : Public Affairs, c2001
(OCoLC)606645643
Online version:
Carlyon, David.
Dan Rice.
New York : Public Affairs, c2001
(OCoLC)609166212
提及的人: Dan Rice; Dan Rice, Komiker.
材料类型: 传记
文件类型:
所有的著者/提供者: David Carlyon
ISBN: 1891620576 9781891620577
OCLC号码: 47255302
描述: xix, 506 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
内容: Foreword --
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
Prologue --
pt. 1. A perfect rush : 1823-1847 --
1. Home, sweet home --
2. Go West, young man --
3. Learned pig, learned Dan --
4. "Circus" --
5. Clown to the ring --
pt. 2. One-horse show : 1848-1852 --
6. Spalding and Spicy Rose --
7. Reading, not acting clown --
8. Foreclosure --
9. One-horse story --
10. Like a phoenix --
11. Alternating ringmasters --
12. Curses, foiled again! --
pt. 3. The great American humorist : 1853-1856 --
13. The Barnum of New Orleans --
14. See the elephant --
15. People's choice --
16. $100,000 --
17. Bearded in his den --
18. Dan Rice's great show --
19. Servis renderd --
20. Hey, rube! --
pt. 4. "Something higher" : 1856-1860 --
21. Cabinet of curiosities --
22. Genius for fun --
23. Excelsior! --
24. Daniel McLaren --
25. Grammatical assassin? --
26. The end? --
27. Ring cycle --
pt. 5. The people's candidate : 1860-1867 --
28. House divided --
29. Southern sympathy --
30. Union, alias peace --
31. A muted voice --
32. "Colonel" Rice --
33. Rice for president --
pt. 6. Reverse of success : 1868-1883 --
34. Folly to fight --
35. Paris pavilion --
36. Is life worth living? --
pt. 7. Old Uncle Dan : 1884-1900 --
37. More fun than you can count --
38. Snake oil --
39. Honest Abe's Uncle Sam --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Permissions --
Index.
责任: David Carlyon.

摘要:

"Dan Rice, alone in the world as a boy, had tried whatever came to hand. He was a pig presenter, strongman, lecturer, comic singer, and blackface performer. Then he joined the glittering world of circus and quickly rose to prominence as a talking clown, tossing out quips, quoting Shakespeare, singing about bloomers, and feuding with Horace Greeley. He named his own circus "Dan Rice's Great Show" and labeled himself the Great American Humorist. The spitting image of Uncle Sam in a striped suit, top hat, and goatee, Rice spoke on issues of the day till he became one of the most famous men in America, probably seen by more people than anyone else at the time. That fame propelled him to several campaigns for public office, including a brief run for president.".

"So what happened? Why have so few people heard of Dan Rice? Rice rose to prominence because he was supremely adept at engaging audiences in what was then a bubbling public stew of participation. Circus, theater, minstrelsy, and lectures overlapped with politics, and crowds roared out with their boisterous opinions. Rice took that energy and tossed it back, dazzling audiences. But polite society, propelled by a vague urge of "refinement," increasingly deemed robust amusements inappropriate. The raucous antebellum blend of performers and audiences and forms began to split along a new performance hierarchy of high and low. Though Rice had pitched refinement too, circus was soon seen as essentially lowbrow, good only for children, simple jokes, and nostalgia.

In that changed world, Rice's hearty connection with a noisy, participatory audience came to seem crude, and worse, a civic threat. Rice, famous for adult jokes, violent feuds, and cutting satire, became sentimentalized as Old Uncle Dan, friend to little children." "In Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of David Carlyon weaves a rich portrait of a turbulent time that raised one ambitious, creative man to glorious heights and then, embarrassed by its enthusiasm, buried him in sentimentality until it forgot him. It is a brilliant, detailed cultural history of the mid-nineteenth century - its intoxicating theater, its turbulent circus, its wild politics, and its bigger-than-life personalities."--BOOK JACKET.

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