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The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno

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The Jumbies' Playing Ground

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by Robert Wyndham Nicholls ...

Series series Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series
During the masquerades common during carnival time, jumbies (ghosts or ancestral spirits) are set free to roam the streets of Caribbean nations, turning the world topsy-turvy. Modern carnivals, which evolved from earlier ritual celebrations featuring disguised performers, are important cultural and economic events throughout the Caribbean, and are a direct link to a multilayered history.This work ... Read more

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During the masquerades common during carnival time, jumbies (ghosts or ancestral spirits) are set free to roam the streets of Caribbean nations, turning the world topsy-turvy. Modern carnivals, which evolved from earlier ritual celebrations featuring disguised performers, are important cultural and economic events throughout the Caribbean, and are a direct link to a multilayered history.This work
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Popular Theatre

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Series series Worlds of Performance
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by John Wright ...

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by Joe R Meyer ...

Prepare your refreshments and take your seats, as the performance is about to commence. Welcome to the most spectacular show on Earth, the CIRCUS! Enjoy a presentation featuring clowns, acrobats, lions, tigers, and bears. However, the true highlights are the unique performers often referred to as "freaks." Witness extraordinary individuals from across the globe, including the bearded lady, ... Read more

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Secrets of the Sideshows

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The carnival sideshows of the past have left behind a fascinating legacy of mystery and intrigue. The secrets behind such daring feats as fire-eating and sword swallowing and bizarre exhibitions of human oddities as "Alligator Boys" and "Gorilla Girls" still remain, only grudgingly if ever given up by performers and carnival professionals. Working alongside the performers, Joe Nickell blows the ... Read more

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Freak Show

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by Robert Bogdan ...

This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved.From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. ... Read more

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Clowns

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Almost Perfect

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Through Almost Perfect, Erika Lemay shares how she became world-famous by creating a career out of her passion — the acrobatic world of Physical Poetry.The gritty detail of a life in the spotlight is exposed — rebuilding herself after a fall that left one of her limbs compromised and challenged all she had aspired to be, avoiding child abusers in the show business world, and keeping her cool when
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The Trouble With Tigers

A gripping and sweeping tale of unforgettable adventures and unforgiveable secrets

by Roxane Dhand ...

'A highly accomplished novel, peopled by complex characters, most of whom are hiding secrets about themselves' Jasmina Svenne, Historical Novel Society'This is a story with all the engaging elements of suspense and romance' FIVE STARSThis compulsive tale is rich in atmosphere and page-turning intrigue' FIVE STARS'The story is engaging from the start with enough twists and turn... ... Read more

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Nobody's Fool

The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead

by Bill Griffith ...

A graphic biography of the real-life sideshow performer who inspired Zippy the Pinhead: "An uplifting, wonderfully humane book." — The New York TimesFrom Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small-town carnivals and big-city sideshows, Nobody's Fool follows the long, legendary career of Schlitzie, today best known for his appearance in the cult classic film Freaks, the making of which is ... Read more

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A graphic biography of the real-life sideshow performer who inspired Zippy the Pinhead: "An uplifting, wonderfully humane book." — The New York TimesFrom Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small-town carnivals and big-city sideshows, Nobody's Fool follows the long, legendary career of Schlitzie, today best known for his appearance in the cult classic film Freaks, the making of which is
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Engañar a Houdini

Magos, mentalistas, ilusionistas y los poderes ocultos de la mente

by Alex Stone ...

Translated by María Serrano Giménez ...

Un viaje fascinante al mundo de la magiaDesde los sótanos donde se reúnen los antiguos clubs de magia de Nueva York hasta los laboratorios de psicología más avanzados, de los trileros en las esquinas a los casinos más lujosos, Engañar a Houdini cuenta los esfuerzos de Alex Stone por entrar en el mundo de los maestros de la magia.A medida que se adentra en esta peculiar y a menudo hilarante ... Read more

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Un viaje fascinante al mundo de la magiaDesde los sótanos donde se reúnen los antiguos clubs de magia de Nueva York hasta los laboratorios de psicología más avanzados, de los trileros en las esquinas a los casinos más lujosos, Engañar a Houdini cuenta los esfuerzos de Alex Stone por entrar en el mundo de los maestros de la magia.A medida que se adentra en esta peculiar y a menudo hilarante
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Pride

by William Wharton ...

When a 10-year-old boy befriends a carnival stuntman and his lion cub, he learns the true meaning of family, loyalty, love, and survival.For Dickie Kettleson, growing up during the Depression makes even the most ordinary aspects of life a struggle. His small street and family are his whole world, but hunger and collapse are never far away.Fory-year-old Cap Modig has already experienced his fair ... Read more

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By Royal Command: Barnum in Europe

by Steve Ward ...

On a cold February day in 1844, a small group of travellers disembarked their ship at the port of Liverpool in England. There was no welcoming party; no bands and banners and the visitors slipped silently away to their hotel. Amongst them was the American showman P. T. Barnum and his protégé Charles S. Stratton, known as General Tom Thumb. Both were little known in England at that time. But this ... Read more

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On a cold February day in 1844, a small group of travellers disembarked their ship at the port of Liverpool in England. There was no welcoming party; no bands and banners and the visitors slipped silently away to their hotel. Amongst them was the American showman P. T. Barnum and his protégé Charles S. Stratton, known as General Tom Thumb. Both were little known in England at that time. But this
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Palavra de palhaço

by Ana Achcar, Dadá Maia ...

O livro 'Palavra de Palhaço' nasceu de uma pergunta não respondida: do que precisa o palhaço? Resultado de encontros, perguntas e estudos para a formação de palhaço e de palhaçaria de circo, o livro - organizado e produzido sobretudo por palhaços - mostra os encontros que aconteciam na residência artística e na criação de exercícios cênicos a partir de falas, biografias, números, reprises, gags e ... Read more

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