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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
sound scholarship, but ponderous, verbose, and grandiloquent,
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This review is from: The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914 (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) (Hardcover)
Irvine and Poli (the evangelist and the impresario) are purveyors of late 19th century working-class culture. Irvine, whom the bulk of the study rests on, is preacher, socialist, writer, and vaudeville actor. Poli is a vaudeville entrpreneur. Both men triumph over the religious, ethnic, and labor divisions inherent in working-class communities to create a mass culture that mixes entertainment, evangelical impulses, and labor union rhetoric. AND if you think that is convoluted, just read this book. I am a doctoral student in history, and I reached for the dictionary more than a dozen times in reading this. Historians note that this work is riddled with social scientific models and constructs. The author's style is gradiloquent and verbose. Not for pleasure reading. Ponderous.
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The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914 (New Studies in American Intellec... by Kathryn J. Oberdeck (Hardcover - May 21, 1999)
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