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The lecture-brokers: the role of impresarios and agencies in the global Anglophone circuit for lantern lecturing, 1850-1920
Early Popular Visual Culture ( IF 0.1 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 , DOI: 10.1080/17460654.2019.1702180
Joe Kember 1
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ABSTRACT 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.

中文翻译:

演讲经纪人:1850 年至 1920 年,经理人和机构在全球英语灯笼演讲巡回演出中的作用

摘要 19 世纪下半叶,灯笼讲学业务以多种方式多样化。在一种文化尺度的顶端是“流行讲师”——无论走到哪里,都可以信赖的演说家占据着越来越多的名人话语主导的市场。这些讲师不仅会访问通常的授课机构,还会访问主要的市政厅、剧院和音乐厅,并且他们经常进行国内和国际巡回演出,这种规模的企业通常需要一个由机构、经理组成的支持网络,和经理。这篇文章考虑了三个这样的机构的工作,它们的网络在 50 多年的时间里融入了大部分英语世界:詹姆斯庞德少校在美国的演讲局,Gerald Christy 在英国的 Lecture Agency,以及 RS 和 Carlyle Smythe 从南非延伸到新西兰的演讲管理业务。本文首先追溯了 1850 年代美国和英国集中式流行讲学制度的出现,然后讨论了这三项业务在 1860 至 1920 年代之间的出现和整合,认为它们应被视为全球的主要动员者。名人灯笼讲座交易。文章首次描述了灯笼业务这方面的全球基础,并考虑了国际灯笼文化中高地位演讲实践的重要性。本文首先追溯了 1850 年代美国和英国集中式流行讲学制度的出现,然后讨论了这三项业务在 1860 至 1920 年代之间的出现和整合,认为它们应被视为全球的主要动员者。名人灯笼讲座交易。文章首次描述了灯笼业务这方面的全球基础,并考虑了国际灯笼文化中高地位演讲实践的重要性。本文首先追溯了 1850 年代美国和英国集中式流行讲学制度的出现,然后讨论了这三项业务在 1860 至 1920 年代之间的出现和整合,认为它们应被视为全球的主要动员者。名人灯笼讲座交易。文章首次描述了灯笼业务这方面的全球基础,并考虑了国际灯笼文化中高地位演讲实践的重要性。认为他们应该被视为名人灯笼讲座全球贸易的主要动员者。文章首次描述了灯笼业务这方面的全球基础,并考虑了国际灯笼文化中高地位演讲实践的重要性。认为他们应该被视为名人灯笼讲座全球贸易的主要动员者。本文首次描述了灯笼业务这方面的全球基础,并考虑了国际灯笼文化中高地位演讲实践的重要性。
更新日期:2019-07-03
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