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From the 1920's through the 1950's, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of "America" and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their prodigious talents to other projects, becoming mavericks first in industrial design and then in commercial design, fashion, architecture, and more. The two men gave shape to the most quintessential symbols of the modern American lifestyle, including movies, cars, department stores, and nightclubs, along with private homes, kitchens, stoves, fridges, magazines, and numerous household furnishings. Illustrated with more than 130 photographs of their influential designs, this book tells the engrossing story of Urban and Bel Geddes. Christopher Innes shows how these two men with a background in theater lent dramatic flair to everything they designed and how this theatricality gave the distinctive modernity they created such wide appeal. If the American lifestyle has been much imitated across the globe over the past fifty years, says Innes, it is due in large measure to the designs of Urban and Bel Geddes. Together they were responsible for creating what has been called the "Golden Age" of American culture.
Design --- Theaters --- Opera-houses --- Playhouses (Theaters) --- Theatres --- Arts facilities --- Auditoriums --- Centers for the performing arts --- Music-halls --- History --- Stage-setting and scenery --- Urban, Joseph, --- Geddes, Norman Bel, --- Bel Geddes, Norman --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Twenty major German cities have a total of twenty-four theatres specializing, at a high level of sophistication, in presenting light comedy. They have their own typical ambience, principles of artistic management and casting. There are playwrights, actors, directors and designers who work almost exclusively in the genre, called boulevard comedy, developing highly specialised approaches to their work. In almost all cases, the predominantly privately run boulevard comedy theatres in Germany hav...
Theater --- Theaters --- Theater audiences --- German drama (Comedy) --- Audiences, Theater --- Theatergoers --- Performing arts --- Theater attendance --- History and criticism. --- Audiences
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Gigs provides a fascinating account of a unique victory for musicians against repressive entertainment licensing laws. It provides a much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change in law and public attitudes toward vernacular music in New York City. This second edition includes a new preface by Hamish Birchall and an introduction by the series editors, Guy Osborn and Steve Greenfield, as well as an afterword by the author, and it will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of social attitudes toward the po
Performing arts --- Popular culture --- Musicians --- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) --- Jazz --- Accordion and piano music (Jazz) --- Clarinet and piano music (Jazz) --- Cornet and piano music (Jazz) --- Double bass and piano music (Jazz) --- Jazz duets --- Jazz ensembles --- Jazz music --- Jazz nonets --- Jazz octets --- Jazz quartets --- Jazz quintets --- Jazz septets --- Jazz sextets --- Jazz trios --- Jive (Music) --- Saxophone and piano music (Jazz) --- Vibraphone and piano music (Jazz) --- Wind instrument and piano music (Jazz) --- Xylophone and piano music (Jazz) --- African Americans --- Music --- Third stream (Music) --- Washboard band music --- Cabarets --- Café theater --- Concert gardens --- Concert rooms --- Concert saloons --- Variety shows (Theater) --- Variety-theaters --- Theaters --- Vaudeville --- Artists --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- History --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Economic aspects --- Law and legislation --- History and criticism.
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The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, is the first detailed look at the numerous early relationships between African Americans and cinema. It investigates African American migrations onto the screen, into the audience, and behind the camera, showing that African American urban populations and cinema shaped each other in powerful ways. Focusing on Black film culture in Chicago during the silent era, Migrating to the Movies begins with the earliest cinematic representations of African Americans and concludes with the silent films of Oscar Micheaux and other early "race films" made for Black audiences, discussing some of the extraordinary ways in which African Americans staked their claim in cinema's development as an art and a cultural institution.
African Americans in motion pictures. --- African Americans in the motion picture industry. --- African Americans --- Motion picture audiences --- Migrations --- History --- African Americans in motion pictures --- African Americans in the motion picture industry --- Afro-Americains dans l'industrie du film --- Afro-Amerikanen in de film --- Afro-Amerikanen in de filmindustrie --- Afro-americains dans le cinéma --- Amerikanen [Zwarte ] in de film --- Noirs américains dans le cinéma --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de film --- Film audiences --- Filmgoers --- Moviegoers --- Moving-picture audiences --- Performing arts --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Afro-Americans in the motion picture industry --- Negroes in the moving-picture industry --- Motion picture industry --- Race films --- Afro-Americans in motion pictures --- Negroes in moving-pictures --- Motion pictures --- Audiences --- United States --- 20th century --- Black people --- african american actors. --- african american directors. --- african americans. --- america. --- american entertainment. --- american history. --- black americans. --- black audiences. --- black film culture. --- black urban life. --- black urban modernity. --- chicago. --- cinema and culture. --- cinema. --- cinematic representations. --- early films. --- film history. --- illustrated. --- influence of cinema. --- migration. --- modern history. --- movie theaters. --- nonfiction. --- northern migration. --- oscar micheaux. --- race films. --- silent movie era. --- urban populations. --- urban setting.
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