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Coal and culture : opera houses in Appalachia
- Title
- Coal and culture : opera houses in Appalachia / William Faricy Condee.
- Author
- Condee, William Faricy.
- Publication
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- xii, 210 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Coal and culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia is a critical appreciation of the opera house in the coal-mining region of Appalachia. Author William Faricy Condee demonstrates that these were multipurpose facilities that were central to the life of their communities. They housed little, if any, opera, but were used for almost everything else, including traveling theater, concerts, religious events, lectures, boxing matches, union meetings, and - if the auditorium had a flat floor - skating and basketball."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-203) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The birth of the opera house -- 2. Morality and transgression at the opera house -- 3. The opera house in the landscape -- 4. The opera house in a "strange land" -- 5. King coal and the opera house -- 6. The opera house in the fraternity -- 7. Thunder and lightning at the opera house -- 8. (Per)forming the community at the opera house -- 9. Variety at the opera house -- 10. Drama at the opera house -- Epilogue : the death (and rebirth) of the opera house -- App. List of opera houses studied.
- ISBN
- 0821415883 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004018401
- OCLC
- ocm56111678
- SCSB-5125282
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries