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Clicko: The Wild Dancing Bushman by Neil Parsons (English) Hardcover Book
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- Condition
- ISBN-13
- 9780226647418
- Book Title
- Clicko
- ISBN
- 9780226647418
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Publication Name
- Clicko : the Wild Dancing Bushman
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Subject
- General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 15.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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During the 1920s and '30s, Franz Taibosh--whose stage name was Clicko--performed in front of millions as one of the stars of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Prior to his fame in the United States, Taibosh toured the world as the "Wild Dancing Bushman," showing off his frenzied dance moves in freak shows, sideshows, and music halls from Australia to Cuba. When he died in 1940, the New York Times called him "the only African bushman ever exhibited in this country." In Clicko , Neil Parsons unearths the untold story of Taibosh's journey from boyhood on a small farm in South Africa to top billing as one of the travelling World's Fair Freaks. Through Taibosh's tale, Parsons brings to life the bizarre golden age of entertainment as well as the role that the dubious new science of race played in it. Beginning with Taibosh's early life, Clicko untangles the real story of his ancestry from the web of myths spun around him on his rise to international stardom. Parsons then chronicles the unhappy middle period of Taibosh's career, when he suffered under the heel of a vicious manager. Left to freeze and nearly starve in an unheated apartment, Taibosh was rescued by Frank Cook, Barnum & Bailey's lawyer. The Cooks adopted Taibosh as a member of their family of circus managers and performers, and his happy--if far from average--years with them make up the final chapter of this remarkable story. Equal parts entertaining and disturbing, Clicko vividly evokes a forgotten era when vaudeville drew massive crowds and circus freaks were featured in Billboard and Variety . Parsons introduces us to colorful characters such as George Auger the giant and the original Zip the Pinhead, but above all, he gives us an unforgettable portrait of Franz Taibosh, rescued at last from the racists and the romantics and revealed here as an ordinary man with an extraordinary life.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226647412
ISBN-13
9780226647418
eBay Product ID (ePID)
84535146
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Clicko : the Wild Dancing Bushman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2010-018261
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Gv1811.T33p37 2010
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"Parsons provides detailed accounts of Taibosh''s Ringling tours and of his relationship with the Cook family, with whom he resided during off seasons. Because Clicko represented an image of African wildness that fit white Western stereotypes of the day, his story provides unique insight into the changing nature of American popular culture."-- Choice, "An astonishing story that illuminates the history of a talented person who represented a fragile culture to the world. It entertains and astonishes us-but it also enriches our knowledge of a hardy and resourceful person and a fascinating slice of southern African history."-Alexander McCall Smith, from his Foreword, Parsons provides detailed accounts of Taibosh's Ringling tours and of his relationship with the Cook family, with whom he resided during off seasons. Because Clicko represented an image of African wildness that fit white Western stereotypes of the day, his story provides unique insight into the changing nature of American popular culture., Reading like an account straight out of Ripley's Believe It or Not! , but with sound historical detail underpinning his portrait of a frequently bizarre world, Parsons' impeccably researched and accessible book brings together a wide range of primary and archival sources relating to an astonishing performer. . . . Parsons brings serious academic scholarship to bear on a thoughtful, sometimes distressing and always compelling tale of an extraordinary man., "Reading like an account straight out of Ripley's Believe It or Not! , but with sound historical detail underpinning his portrait of a frequently bizarre world, Parsons' impeccably researched and accessible book brings together a wide range of primary and archival sources relating to an astonishing performer. . . . Parsons brings serious academic scholarship to bear on a thoughtful, sometimes distressing and always compelling tale of an extraordinary man."- Times Higher Education, An astonishing story that illuminates the history of a talented person who represented a fragile culture to the world. It entertains and astonishes us-but it also enriches our knowledge of a hardy and resourceful person and a fascinating slice of southern African history., An astonishing story that illuminates the history of a talented person who represented a fragile culture to the world. It entertains and astonishes us--but it also enriches our knowledge of a hardy and resourceful person and a fascinating slice of southern African history.
Table of Content
Foreword by Alexander McCall Smith Introduction 1 Growing Up in the Snow Mountains 2 Recruited at Kimberley 3 Enter Paddy Hepston 4 Disappearance to Australasia or the Far East? 5 The Dancing Bushma n in London 6 Dancing in Cam bridge and Paris 7 Hiding from Humanitarians 8 Margate Rendezvous 9 From Dublin to Havana 10 Coney Island and Havana Again 11 Joining Barnum and Bailey's Circus 12 Kidnap in Connecticut 13 'I am an American Gentleman' 14 Sam Gumpertz Tak es Over 15 High Life with Frank and Evelyn 16 'I Inherited a Bushman' 17 California Interlude 18 The Great Terminal Dance Conclusion A Mantis Carol Appendix Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
Copyright Date
2010
Dewey Decimal
791.3092 B
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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