The lecture-brokers: the role of impresarios and agencies in the global Anglophone circuit for lantern lecturing, 1850-1920
The lecture-brokers: the role of impresarios and agencies in the global Anglophone circuit for lantern lecturing, 1850-1920
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讲座经纪人:1850-1920 年全球英语灯笼讲座中经理人和代理机构的作用
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10.1080/17460654.2019.1702180
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2019
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0.2
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Kember J
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Kember J
The lantern lecturing business diversified in a number of ways in the second half of the nineteenth century. At the top end of one kind of cultural scale were the ‘popular lecturers’ – speakers who could be relied upon to fill venues wherever they travelled and who occupied a market increasingly dominated by discourses of celebrity. These lecturers tended to visit not only the usual run of lecturing institutes but also major town halls, theatres, and concert halls, and they frequently embarked on both national and international tours, a scale of enterprise that usually necessitated a support network comprising agencies, managers, and impresarios. This article considers the work of three such agencies, whose networks incorporated much of the Anglophone world for over five decades: Major James Pond’s lecture bureau in the United States, Gerald Christy’s Lecture Agency in Britain, and R.S. and Carlyle Smythe’s lecture management business, which stretched from South Africa to New Zealand. Beginning by tracing the emergence of centralised popular lecturing systems in the United States and Britain from the 1850s, the article then discusses the emergence and consolidation of these three businesses between the 1860s and 1920s, arguing that they should be regarded as key mobilisers of the global trade in celebrity lantern lecturing. The article describes for the first time the global foundations for this aspect of the lantern business, and considers the importance of high status lecturing practices across international lantern cultures.
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2006
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作者:
J. Pond
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J. Pond
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1
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DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199297276.001.0001
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2009
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The Economic History Review
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作者:
James Belich
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James Belich
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2008
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作者:
Robert Grau
通讯作者:
Robert Grau
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作者:
P. Roberts
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P. Roberts