The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia, 1820-1930
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820344370 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Those with a general interest in popular culture or a specific interest in circus history will doubtlessly find much to appreciate in Renoff's recounting Yet this work delivers much more, constructing an innovative social, cultural, and economic analysis of a broad spectrum of Georgia's diverse population." -Journal of Interdisciplinary History"The Big Tent is first-rate-impressively researched, interpretive, and highly readable. (Journal of American History) . (Janet Davis author of The Circus Age: Culture and
By recasting itself as a showcase of athleticism, equestrian skill, and God’s wondrous animal creations, the circus appeased community leaders, many of whose businesses prospered during circus visits.Ranging across a changing social, cultural, and economic landscape, The Big Tent tells a new history of what happened when the circus came to town, from the time it traveled by wagon and river barge through its heyday during the railroad era and into its initial decline in the age of the automobile and mass consumerism.. Renoff digs deeper, too. Yet for Greg Renoff and other scholars, the circus and its social context also provide a richly suggestive repository of changing attitudes about race, class, religion, and consumerism. Renoff also looks at encounters between southerners and the largely northern population of circus owners, promoters, and performers, who were frequently accused of inciting public disorder and purveying lowbrow prurience, in part due to residual anger over the Civil War. He points out, for instance, that the performances of these itinerant outfits in Jim Crow-era Georgia allowed boisterous, unrestrained interaction between blacks a
in American history from Brandeis University and is the author of The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia, 1820-1930. Greg Renoff was born in the Bronx, New York, and grew up in New Jersey. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his wife and two daughters.He enjoys hearing from readers and can be contacted at grenoff at-gmail dot-com.. Renoff earned his Ph.D
A highly valuable contribution to the history of the circus in America Whitt Patrick Pond Gergory Renoff's The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia 1820-1930 is a well-researched and valuable contribution to the history of the circus in America, providing a great deal of insight into the relationships that existed between the circus as an institution and the Southern audiences they performed for from the pre-Civil War era up to the begi. "A brilliant way to analyze the pre-Jim Crow South" according to D. Dutton. A scholarly study of the traveling circus and the social mores it challenged and economic interests it piqued. A brilliant way to analyze the pre-Jim Crow South.. Outstanding, encompassing view of the circus as it operated in Georgia for 110 years Coach B 65 Renoff's The Big Tent is a truly amazing account of the South's interactions with the circus as seen in the state of Georgia. It is very detailed in not only what took place under the big tent, but also in how communities reacted to the circus coming to the area, the effects of a circus' performance within an area, and the social and business oriented r