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Show Town: Theater and Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1920
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| #1678368 in eBooks | 2016-10-26 | 2016-10-26 | File type: PDF||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Vital Addition to Your Spokane History Bookshelf|By LarryC|I just finished this book and it is quite good. George looks at the theater scene in Spokane from 1880-1910 or so (with a bit on the transition to moving pictures in the 1910s). The book is not so much about what happens on stage as it is about how Spokanites consumed and fought about theater. For most of this period||
“Exploring tensions between the Victorian values of middle-class Spokane theatergoers and the often bawdy variety entertainment venues that fueled the town’s economic engines, Holly George tells a story that illuminates the turn-of-the-century
Like many western boomtowns at the turn of the twentieth century, Spokane, Washington, enjoyed a lively theatrical scene, ranging from plays, concerts, and operas to salacious variety and vaudeville shows. Yet even as Spokanites took pride in their city’s reputation as a “good show town,” the more genteel among them worried about its “Wild West” atmosphere. In Show Town, historian Holly George correlates the clash of taste...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Show Town: Theater and Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1920 | Holly George. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
