In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries African and pseudo-African performers were displayed as curiosities throughout Europe and America. Appearing in circuses, ethnographic exhibitions, and traveling shows, these individuals and troupes drew large crowds. As Bernth Lindfors shows, the showmen, impresarios, and even scientists who brought supposedly representative inhabitants of the ""Dark Continent"" to a gaping public often selected the performers for their sensational impact. Spotlighting and exaggerating physical, mental, or cultural differences, the resulting displays reinforced pernicious racial stereotypes and left a disturbing legacy. Using period illustrations and texts, Early African Entertainments Abroad illuminates the mindset of the era's largely white audiences as they viewed wax models of Africans with tails and watched athletic competitions showcasing hungry cannibals. White spectators were thus assured of their racial superiority. And blacks were made to appear less than fully human precisely at the time when abolitionists were fighting to end slavery and establish equality.

This Encyclopedic Book of Almost 500 Large Format Pages Will Reveal to you exactly how to become a Financially Successful Psychic & Paranormal Entertainer able to Reveal Peoples Past, Presents and Futures with great Accuracy. You'll also learn enough Original, Unique and Mind Blowing Mentalism Psychic Style Mind Reading Routines to be able to present a complete Show. If you've ever seen psychics like Derek Acorah, Colin Fry or John Edwards on TV and wondered 'How do they do that?' then wonder no more as this book "Cold Reading & Mentalism For The Psychic Entertainer" exposes the truth and teaches you real world "Cold Reading" techniques, which will make you look like a truly genuine Clairvoyant Perhaps you've been amazed by the Powers of Psychic Metal Bender Uri Geller or Spiritual Healers like Mathew Manning or even Evangelical Preachers such as Benny Hinn and want to know how they might be performing their apparent miracles? Well now for the first time in print, Dr. Jonathan Royle examines ways to duplicate all of these Psychic Type Stunts, and along the way he'll even teach you how to Hypnotise Animals and become a Master of Derren Brown Style Mind Control Feats. For many years Royle worked as a "genuine" Psychic and was featured extensively in International Media and on Top TV Shows and now he is ready to lift the lid and expose his tried, tested and proven to work approaches of Psychic Belly Button Reading, Healing & Mind-Reading, along with Paw Reading for Dogs (Pawology), Tree Slapping, Hose Pipe & Tea Bag Readings and other Bizarre forms of fortune telling with which he had the Experts fooled You will also of course learn how to give more conventional readings with Palmistry, Numerology and Tarot Cards. Indeed British national newspaper "The Sunday People" described Royle's Psychic abilities in a 1996 article as "uncannily accurate" and in the early 90's Psychic News dubbed him as "The New Uri Geller & Doris Stokes rolled into one." Whilst Royle freely admits that all the Psychics mentioned here may actually be genuine, he is also aware of how their feats can be duplicated with trickery and clever psychology and that's exactly what he teaches you within the pages of this dynamite book Using the Secrets this book contains, Royle has been featured in International Media doing amazingly accurate Psychic readings for such people as Princess Diana, The Spice Girls, Claudia Schiffer, Madonna, Cher, Olympic Swimmer Sharon Davis, Boxer Frank Bruno and numerous other A-List celebrities. And as an added bonus Royle also explains Numerous Mind Reading Routines & the Secrets this book contains on obtaining Massive TV, Radio, Newspaper and Magazine Publicity are worth many times the cost of this book alone to any Magician, Mentalist, Fortune Teller or Showbiz Performer And as A Special Bonus there are Numerous Methods Explained for performing the Legendary "Holy Grail of Mentalism" - A.C.A.A.N - The Berglas Effect, Any Card At Any Number. There's enough material within these pages to base your entire Career on, the fact is within the pages you'll learn every technique Royle has used over the years to enable him to Travel the Globe and be featured on TV & Radio Shows and in National and International Newspapers and Magazines all Over The World. This is without doubt the best value for money Mentalism & Cold Reading book available on the market today and more importantly contains nothing but materials, secrets, techniques and insider strategies that have all been tried, tested and proven to consistently work in the real world.

This coloring book is about Ribbons the Birthday Clown and what fun things she will do if she come to your Birthday Party.

The first in-depth scholarly study in English of the Japanese performance medium kamishibai, Sharalyn Orbaugh's Propaganda Performed illuminates the vibrant street culture of 1930s Japan as well as the visual and narrative rhetoric of Japanese propaganda in World War II. Emerging from Japan's cities in the late 1920s, kamishibai rapidly transformed from a cheap amusement associated with poverty into the most popular form of juvenile entertainment, eclipsing even film and manga. By the time kamishibai died as a living medium in the 1970s it had left behind indelible influences on popular culture forms such as manga and anime, as well as on avant-garde cinema, theater, and art. From 1932 to 1945, however, kamishibai also became a vehicle for propaganda messages aimed not primarily at children, but at adults. A mixture of script, image, and performance, the medium was particularly suited to conveying populist, emotionally compelling messages to audiences of all classes, ages, and literacy levels, making it a crucial tool in the government's efforts to mobilize the domestic populace in Japan and to pacify the inhabitants of the empire's colonies and occupied territories. With seven complete translations of wartime plays, over 300 color illustrations from hard-to-access kamishibai play cards, and photographs of prewar performances, this study constitutes an archive of wartime history in addition to providing a detailed analysis of the rhetoric of political persuasion.

A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK of card magic that brings together material from the same author's previous books on the subject augmented with additional information. It includes not only detailed descriptions of the tricks of three complete routines but also clear instructions on their performance. The effects can be produced without any sleights-of-hand and with a minimum of manipulation of the cards and all the handling required is fully explained.

Each year in the weeks preceding the deprivations of Lent, the Andalusian region of southern Spain erupts into madcap depravity, during a February carnival of riotous celebration. Carnival features subversive songs, burlesques and skits, transvestite parades, and public persecution of communal offenders, along with mournful elegies and heartfelt panegyrics. In this lively book, anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores the meanings of Andalusian carnival, focusing particular attention on the songs, or coplas. He offers translations of many of these carnival productions and mines the rich vein of oral literature for a new understanding of the ways in which the Andalusian people interpret and negotiate their world. Not only does carnival provide many insights into ritual behavior and folk art in Spain but, Gilmore shows, the festival also offers similar insights into rituals of revelry and disinhibition elsewhere, whether mumming, Mardi Gras, Fasching, or Walpurgisnacht. In a fresh perspective on carnival, he reveals that in Spain the lower classes mix abuse of elites with a surprising degree of respect and even veneration. Gilmore concludes that Andalusian carnival is less about revolution or politics per se than about the inescapable ambivalence of all human feeling.

In this book you will discover the secrets of picking pockets for entertainment purposes. Written by a professional magician, the techniques are based on elementary principles of misdirection and sleight-of-hand which can be easily learned by anyone. Anything that can be carried in a person's pocket can be secretly removed. This book will show you how. You will be able to remove objects from people's pockets while talking to them and even up on a stage while a thousand eyes are watching you. you will amaze everybody! You will also learn how to remove wristwatches and articles of clothing without being detected. Many excellent effects for magicians.

Amaze your family and friends performing these novel card tricks over the telephone..... These unique tricks require no prior skills..... Just telephone a friend or family member, give them simple instructions and presto, they will think you are a wizard..... These tricks will make your reputation as an outstanding magician among your friends and family members.

This book is an adaptation for the stage of the children's novel by the same title.

This publication commemorates the 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and collects views and perspectives on the way the Folk Revival has evolved over the past sixty years. 'Tis Sixty Years Since: The 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and the Scottish Folk Revival -Sixty years ago, in 1951, the first Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh at Oddfellows' Hall kick-started the modern Scottish Folk Revival. It was presided over by Hamish Henderson and recorded by Alan Lomax. Sixty years ago, the School of Scottish Studies was founded at the University of Edinburgh. The 10th Carrying Stream Festival in November 2011, organised by Edinburgh Folk Club in cooperation with the School of Scottish Studies and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, celebrated these anniversaries.

Every trick selected had to be practical and no manipulative move was required. A means of eliminating the difficult move had to be created to present you with a variety of tricks, using only common articles that are easily obtainable. Any special apparatus required must be simple enough to be made by the average person or child. Also, any material thereof must be easily obtainable. For example, in the kitchen, garage, around the house and in a hobby shop. Just to name a few. These tricks are also created for every conceivable situation, wherever you find yourself, anytime and everywhere. Although no manipulative skill is involved, please study these tricks carefully before presenting them and never do a trick twice.

More than 20 different cloth napkin folding tricks, including baskets and other dinner table arrangements, as well as a variety of puppets, are included in this booklet. These would certainly open up some interesting conversation opportunities for the magician invited to a formal dinner party

This is a beginners book that is designed to fulfill your interest and curiosity in the world and techniques of mentalism and the secrets of mental magic. If you wish to learn mentalism and understand how to be a mentalist, you found the perfect guide It has some phenomenal secrets about becoming a mentalist: Memory skills, Predictions, Body Language Reading, Hypnosis and other mind boggling effects Within this book, I shall show and demonstrate to you some of the strongest effects that you can begin to practice and then perform immediately. The majority of effects within this book require next to no skill and can be performed in almost all circumstances. Some of the effects within this book are extremely simple but also extremely powerful when performed correctly. But professional mentalists will go crazy if they'll know we are publishing this book - so please respect these effects and ensure that they can still be performed after you are finished with them by not revealing the secrets to your audience members. I hope you enjoy this book and get a lot out of these effects. Yours, The Masked Mentalist

The first comprehensive 'biography' of one of the first celebrity animals who gave us one of our favourite words. Jumbo, Victorian England's favourite elephant, was born in 1861 in French Sudan, imported to a Parisian zoo and later sold on to London, where - for seventeen years - he dutifully gave children rides and ate buns from their hands, all the while being tortured at night to keep him docile. Worldwide fame came when he was bought by the American showman and scam artist P.T. Barnum in 1881, despite letters from 100,000 British schoolchildren who wrote to Queen Victoria begging her to prevent the sale. Barnum went on to transform Jumbo into a lucrative circus act and one of the most loved animals of all time, establishing elephants as a regular feature of funhouses and menageries the world over. Using the heartwrenching story of Jumbo's celebrity life, tragic death in Canada in 1885, and his enduring cultural legacy, Jumbo is personal and fascinating reflection on our cultural elephantiasis by one of our most distinguished literary-critical detectives, which is guaranteed to amuse, stimulate, provoke and delight in equal measure.