Winner of the 2006 Barnard Hewitt Award for Excellence in Theatre HistoryBetween 1904 and the Great Depression; Circuit Chautauquas toured the rural United States; reflecting and reinforcing its citizensrsquo; ideas; attitudes; and politics every summer through music (the Jubilee Singers; an African American group; were not always welcome in a time when millions of Americans belonged to the KKK); lectures (ldquo;Civic Revivalistrdquo; Charles Zueblin speaking on ldquo;Militancy and Moralsrdquo;); elocutionary readers (Lucille Adams reading from Little Lord Fauntleroy); dramas (the Ben Greet Playersrsquo; cleaned-up version of She Stoops to Conquer); orations (William Jennings Bryan speaking about the dangers of greed); and special programs for children (parades and mock weddings). emsp;Theatre historians have largely ignored Circuit Chautauquas since they did not meet the conventional conditions of theatrical performance: they were not urban; they produced no innovative performance techniques; stage material; design effects; or dramatic literature. In this beautifully written and illustrated book; Charlotte Canning establishes an analytical framework to reveal the Circuit Chautauquas as unique performances that both created and unified small-town America.emsp;One of the last strongholds of the American traditions of rhetoric and oratory; the Circuits created complex intersections of community; American democracy; and performance. Canning does not celebrate the Circuit Chautauquas wholeheartedly; nor does she describe them with the same cynicism offered by Sinclair Lewis. She acknowledges their goals of community support; informed public thinking; and popular education but also focuses on the reactionary and regressive ideals they sometimes embraced. In the true interdisciplinary spirit of Circuit Chautauquas; she reveals the Circuit platforms as places where Americans performed what it meant to be American.
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