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By the 1740s, colonists living in North America began to encounter scores of itinerant performers from England and Europe. These show people―acrobats, wire dancers, tumblers, trick riders, painters, dancing-masters, waxworks proprietors, healers, and singing and language teachers―brought novelty and culture to remote areas. Advertising in newspapers, they attracted audiences with the hook of appearing "for a short time only."
In this richly illustrated and deeply researched book, Peter Benes examines the rise of early American popular culture through the lives and work of itinerants who circulated in British North America and the United States from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Although they were frequently reviled as quacks and absconders by many provincials, these transients enjoyed a unique camaraderie and found audiences among high- and lowbrow alike. Drawing on contemporary diaries, letters, reminiscences, and hitherto inaccessible newspaper ads, broadsides, and images, Benes suggests why some elements of Europe's carnival and folklore traditions failed to gain acceptance in American society while others flourished brilliantly.
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About the Author
Peter Benes is director of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife in affiliation with Historic Deerfield, Inc., in Deerfield, Massachusetts. His previous books include Meetinghouses of Early New England (University of Massachusetts Press, 2012), winner of the 2014 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
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"This is an original and scholarly study, based on an impressively deep knowledge of a cultural world that we have lost, and so a book with wide potential appeal."―Peter Burke, author of A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia
"For a Short Time Only is a masterful work of research."―David Jaffe, author of A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America
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- PublisherUniversity of Massachusetts Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1625341997
- ISBN 13 9781625341990
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages528
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