Banned In Boston A Study Of Theatrical Censorship In Boston From 1630 To 1950
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Banned in Boston
Author | : Neil Miller |
Publsiher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2010-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807051139 |
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“I want to be intelligent, even if I do live in Boston.” —an anonymous Bostonian, 1929 In this spectacular romp through the Puritan City, Neil Miller relates the scintillating story of how a powerful band of Brahmin moral crusaders helped make Boston the most straitlaced city in America, forever linked with the infamous catchphrase “Banned in Boston.” Bankrolled by society’s upper crust, the New England Watch and Ward Society acted as a quasi-vigilante police force and notorious literary censor for over eighty years. Often going over the heads of local authorities, it orchestrated the mass censorship of books and plays, raided gambling dens and brothels, and utilized spies to entrap prostitutes and their patrons. Miller deftly traces the growth of the Watch and Ward, from its formation in 1878 to its waning days in the 1950s. During its heyday, the society and its imitators banished modern classics by Hemingway, Faulkner, and Sinclair Lewis and went to war with publishing and literary giants such as Alfred A. Knopf and The Atlantic Monthly. To the chagrin of the Watch and Ward, some writers rode the national wave of publicity that accompanied the banning of their books. Upton Sinclair declared staunchly, “I would rather be banned in Boston than read anywhere else because when you are banned in Boston, you are read everywhere else.” Others faced extinction or tried to barter their way onto bookshelves, like Walt Whitman, who hesitantly removed lines from Leaves of Grass under the watchful eye of the Watch and Ward. As the Great Depression unfolded, the society shifted its focus from bookstores to burlesque, successfully shuttering the Old Howard, the city’s legendary theater that attracted patrons from T. S. Eliot to John F. Kennedy. Banned in Boston is a lively history and, despite Boston’s “liberal” reputation today, a cautionary tale of the dangers caused by moral crusaders of all stripes.
Banned in Boston A Study of Theatrical Censorship in Boston from 1630 to 1950
Author | : William Robert Reardon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105025583415 |
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The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess
Author | : Ellen Noonan |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780807837160 |
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Examines the opera Porgy and Bess's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of 20th-century American expectations about race, culture and the struggle for equality.
Improper Bostonians
Author | : History Project (Boston, Mass.) |
Publsiher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807079499 |
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Surprising, fun, and magnificently illustrated with two hundred images, Improper Bostonians is the first book to depict Boston's three centuries of gay and lesbian life, and--since it treats the American city with the longest gay and lesbian history--the most comprehensive and meticulously researched gay city history ever written.
American Dissertations on the Drama and the Theatre
Author | : Fredric M. Litto |
Publsiher | : Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : MINN:31951001808686L |
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Banned in Boston
Author | : Ralph Edward McCoy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Censorship |
ISBN | : UOM:39015008849435 |
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Microfilm Abstracts
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1508 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105025471660 |
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Dissertation Abstracts
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1722 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN | : UOM:39015033873087 |
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Abstracts of dissertations and monographs in microform.