The most American thing in America circuit Chautauqua as performance /

"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, lectures, elocutionary readers, dramas, orations, and special programs for children." "T...

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Main Author: Canning, Charlotte, 1964-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2005]
Physical Description: xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series: Studies in theatre history and culture.
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