It is no surprise then that the eleven essays that follow address a broad range of performances, including not only the traditionally "theatrical" (for example, the Broadway stage, vaudeville, and early film), but also performative genres and sites that have often been marginalized or ignored (tango teas, sideshows, and parades), and do so through a variety of methodological approaches (textual analysis, spatial analysis, reception theory, and so on). In the latter, Shulman and Westgate assert their primary interest in opposition and tension, as well as the ways in which that impulse was manifest across a wide variety of performances in the years considered: "e want readers to experience something of the abundance, variety, and contradictions, of the performative offerings" of the era (10–11). The centrality of a performance culture that proffered conflict, contradiction, and debate that were indicative of the Progressive era enterprise is central to both the moving foreword authored by Lawrence Senelick, and the thoughtful introduction, "The Destiny of the Nation," authored by the editors. Chris Westgate add to this broadly conceived revisionist project, persuasively situating performance as both a producer and product of the social conflicts, cultural contradictions, and national debates that defined those formative decades in the history of the United States. With Performing the Progressive Era: Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage, editors Max Shulman and J. More recently, however, scholars have challenged this too-simple account, arguing instead that not only was this period in US history vexed and rife with contradictions, but that those oppositions, in fact, gave rise to the very social energy that constituted the Progressive era. Although these established scholarly visions of the era do allow for some modicum of resistance (for example, while there was a loosening of conventional views of sex, there remained an abiding sense of moralism), such tensions are considered occasional bumps on an otherwise smooth road toward a brighter, more tolerant, and egalitarian future. Conventional scholarship on the decades from 1890 to 1920 underscores this historical narrative, situating the activist, systematic, and rational advances that influenced all phases of private and public life-including enlightened and liberalizing social programs, reformist political endeavors, and avant-garde artistic innovation-as easily integrated, uniformly accepted, and unproblematically absorbed. He got banned from the intfiction.As its ascribed name implies, the Progressive era in the United States is typically regarded as a period of vibrant and uncomplicated progress. by fkldsfjsalfjsalkfjsalkjfdslajfsd, 4:14pm PDT Holy crap what a god damn dangerous lunatic by MTW is a dickless crazy cunt, 11:56pm PDT Re: Somehow context makes MTW seem like more of a lunatic. Somehow context makes MTW seem like more of a lunatic. Re: Saved in case Google deletes it again by MTW, 3:18pm PDT Saved in case Google deletes it again by Unbelievably Fat Man, 9:51am PDT by Concered Citizen, 8:09am PDTįUCK YOU FOR TRYING TO HELP ME, FAG! NT by Help! Help! My genre's dying!, 9:22am PDT I think this is like when Zseni found those future serial killers by Kirahu Nagasawa, 4:28pm PDTĬoncerned Citizen got verbally abused for his efforts. Re: Marshal Tenner Winter responds by Academi, 5:56am PST Who is this retard? by Ulrachi, 4:25pm PDT Marshal Tenner Winter responds by blackwater, 2:53pm PDT Re: Meet an asshole one day, you met an asshole. Meet a dozen assholes every day, NT by you're the asshole. Meet an asshole one day, you met an asshole. by Concered Citizen, 8:42pm PDTĮqual time to Marshal Tenner Winter. This is a concerned citizen who wants to give equal time. Is this ICJ? NT by Mischief Maker, 5:29pm PDT Marshal Tenner Winter's blog has been removed. Occasionally lags behind because, well, life, but I update it as time allows. by Patrick Mooney, 1:04am PDTĬannot imagine why anyone *would* be interested, but I track MTW's stalking in this Atom feed: Caltrops - Urban Strife - Re: We know him too well unfortunately.
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