Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925Main MenuIntroductionIntroduction to the book and information about ways to navigate the content.The American Experiment: Circus in ContextCircus performers and American history timelineRouting the Circus: The Things They CarriedCircus Routes Map, 1875-1925Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacleby Rebecca FitzsimmonsOutsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performersby Angela Yon and Mariah WahlShattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circusby Elizabeth HarmanSide Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to ExoticismAnnexed Circus Musicians by Elizabeth C. HartmanNative Performance and Identity in The Wild West Showby Mariah WahlShowmen's Rests: The Final CurtainCircus Cemetery Plots by Elizabeth C. HartmanList of PerformersPerformers covered in this exhibitBibliography & Further ReadingsBibliography and readings for each chapterAcknowledgementsAngela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
Cake walk 1903, 10 seconds
12020-12-03T09:58:52-08:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f138294110 second clip of five African-American dancers perform a cakewalk, 1903.plain2020-12-03T09:58:52-08:001903Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound DivisionAngela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
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12020-12-03T09:55:33-08:00E. C. Heater3Polymath Performerplain2020-12-03T10:03:23-08:00 Many circus side show musicians were multi-talented performers who traveled with other touring acts. Many were either multi-instrumentalists, or instrumentalists as well as singers, dancers, and actors - not to mention their extra-musical entrepreneurial and logitistical skills.
