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For a Short Time Only: Itinerants and the Resurgence of Popular Culture in Early America
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| #2433352 in Books | 2016-07-25 | Original language:English | 7.00 x10.00 x1.50l, | File type: PDF | 528 pages|||"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
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."
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