The intersection of local history and theatre has created a unique set of challenges to serve a c... more The intersection of local history and theatre has created a unique set of challenges to serve a community while asking far-reaching questions.
Howlround podcast interview with Michael Lueger on the blackface origins of One Horse Open Sleigh... more Howlround podcast interview with Michael Lueger on the blackface origins of One Horse Open Sleigh (1857).
The intersection of local history and theatre has created a unique set of challenges to serve a c... more The intersection of local history and theatre has created a unique set of challenges to serve a community while asking far-reaching questions.
Howlround podcast interview with Michael Lueger on the blackface origins of One Horse Open Sleigh... more Howlround podcast interview with Michael Lueger on the blackface origins of One Horse Open Sleigh (1857).
... $29.95 Pb. Reviewed by Rebecca D'Monté, University of the West of England ... This colla... more ... $29.95 Pb. Reviewed by Rebecca D'Monté, University of the West of England ... This collaboration between Adeola Agbebiyi, Patience Agbabi and Dorothea Smartt uses typography to show how the visual look of a text can mimic the movement and vitality of performance. ...
The narrative works extremely hard to convince through evidence: we have a date, an eyewitness, a... more The narrative works extremely hard to convince through evidence: we have a date, an eyewitness, and the events that inspired the song's conception. Since it is written in bronze and mounted on stone, the story seems fixed and immovable. However, cracks have begun to form in the beloved “Jingle Bells” narrative, and as with many such sentimental stories, we find there is always more to uncover. This essay confronts one of the most popular Christmas carols of all time: “Jingle Bells; or, The One Horse Open Sleigh,” whose history has usually been told in relation to a singular event—“Where was it first written?” The answer depends on where you ask, since both Medford, Massachusetts and Savannah, Georgia lay claim to being the song's city of origin. Commemorative plaques can be found in both cities, and this musical North–South discord carries on to this day.
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