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Author : James Campbell Wright
Release : 1974
Genre : Black Hills passion play
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Book Synopsis Development of the Black Hills Passion Play in Spearfish, South Dakota and Lake Wales, Florida by : James Campbell Wright
Download or read book Development of the Black Hills Passion Play in Spearfish, South Dakota and Lake Wales, Florida written by James Campbell Wright. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johanna Meier
Release : 2008
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Black Hills Passion Play by : Johanna Meier
Download or read book The Black Hills Passion Play written by Johanna Meier. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1932, Josef Meier, a native of Luenen, Germany, brought a small company of actors to the United States to tour with a passion play. It was performed in German, destined for a limited engagement in German theaters, churches, and German-speaking communities. Political and economic conditions in Germany were already deteriorating during this time, and Meier determined to remain in America, to found a permanent home for the play. He translated the play into English, hiring American actors to replace the German-speaking cast. As he booked tours across the United States, Meier continued to seek a suitable permanent outdoor location for his production, mentioning his quest to the public in interviews across the nation. En route to the West Coast, Meier presented the Passion Play in Sioux Falls, the only town of size within South Dakota at that time. A group of businessmen from the Black Hills attended and asked Meier to examine possible sites in their area. He chose a spectacular natural location in Spearfish, and in 1939, an amphitheater was constructed and became the home of the renamed Black Hills Passion Play of America.
Author : Claire Sponsler
Release : 2018-07-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Ritual Imports by : Claire Sponsler
Download or read book Ritual Imports written by Claire Sponsler. This book was released on 2018-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Americas, performances deriving from medieval European rituals, ceremonies, and festivities made up a crucial part of the cultural cargo shipped from Europe to the overseas settlements. In 1583, Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed from Plymouth, England, to Newfoundland, bringing with him "morris dancers, hobby horses, and Maylike Conceits" for the "allurement of the savages" and the "solace of our people." His voyage closely resembled that of twelve Franciscan friars who in 1524 had arrived in what is now Mexico armed with a repertoire of miracle plays, religious processions, and other performances. These two events, although far from unique, helped shape initial encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples; they also marked the first stages of the process that would lead—by no means smoothly—to a distinctively American culture. Ritual Imports is a groundbreaking cultural history of European performance traditions in the New World, from the sixteenth century to the present. Claire Sponsler examines the role of survivals and adaptations of medieval drama in shaping American culture from colonization through nation building and on to today's multicultural society. The book's subjects include New Mexican matachines dances and Spanish conquest drama, Albany's Pinkster festival and Afro-Dutch religious celebrations, Philadelphia's mummers and the Anglo-Saxon revival, a Brooklyn Italian American saint's play, American and German passion plays, and academic reconstructions of medieval drama. Drawing on theories of cultural appropriation, Ritual Imports makes an important contribution to medieval and American studies as well as to cultural studies and the history of theater.
Author : John R. Vile
Release : 2024-01-23
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Christian Cross in American Public Life by : John R. Vile
Download or read book The Christian Cross in American Public Life written by John R. Vile. This book was released on 2024-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross is one of Christianity’s most distinctive symbols, increasingly cutting across Catholic/Protestant and other denominational divides. Although the US acknowledges no official religion, a variety of both Christian and non-Christian denominations have flourished. Crosses dot the landscape, sometimes towering over it and at other times simply marking a grave or the site of a traffic accident, or providing a place for contemplation. Courts continue to decide whether it is better to remove long-standing crosses on public property to protect the separation of church and state, or whether removing such symbols might be misinterpreted as expressing hostility towards religion. Whether marking identity, triumph, love, grief, or sacrifice, the cross remains important in American life and continues to be the subject of works of art, music, literature, and political, religious, and social rhetoric, all of which this volume addresses in an accessible A-to-Z format.
Author : Louis L. Williams
Release : 1970
Genre : Passion-plays
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Book Synopsis The American Passion Play by : Louis L. Williams
Download or read book The American Passion Play written by Louis L. Williams. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
