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Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo

Side Shock Circus Freaks, Carnival Jabbers and Blade Box Queens

ISBN-13: 9781554908806

Contributor(s): Al Stencell

Subject: Dance & Performing Arts

Publisher Imprint: Ecw Press Digital

Publication Date: 20-12-2010

Format: PDF

Availability: In stock

£11.99

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About the book

The follow-up to Seeing is Believing (ECW Press, 2002) tells the fascinating story of the carnival in words and pictures. Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo follows the development of the circus sideshow with interviews and stories from sideshow workers that explain the role of freaks, working acts, managers and talkers and explores how important grift was to circuses and how it became located inside the sideshow.