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| history of ventriloquism: History and Art of Ventriloquism Valentine Vox, 2019-11-29 History of ventriloquism over three thousand years |
| history of ventriloquism: Dummy Days Kelly Asbury, 2003 Examines the best of the Golden Age of ventriloquism, by profiling five performers who turned a vaudevillian gimmick into an American art form, including Edgar Bergen, Paul Winchell, Jimmy Nelson and Shari Lewis. |
| history of ventriloquism: Dumbstruck - A Cultural History of Ventriloquism Steven Connor, 2000-10-26 Why can none of us hear our own recorded voice without wincing? Why is the telephone still full of such spookiness and erotic possibility? Why does the metaphor of ventriloquism, the art of 'seeming to speak where one is not', speak so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition? These are the kind of questions which impel Steven Connor's wide-ranging, restlessly inquisitive history of ventriloquism and the disembodied voice. He tracks his subject from its first recorded beginnings in ancient Israel and Greece, through the fulminations of early Christian writers against the unholy (and, they believed, obscenely produced) practices of pagan divination, the aberrations of the voice in mysticism, witchcraft and possession, and the strange obsession with the vagrant figure of the ventriloquist, newly conceived as male rather than female, during the Enlightenment. He retrieves the stories of some of the most popular and versatile ventriloquists and polyphonists of the nineteenth century, and investigates the survival of ventriloquial delusions and desires in spiritualism and the 'vocalic uncanny' of technologies like telephone, radio, film, and internet. Learned but lucid, brimming with anecdote and insight, this is much more than an archaeology of one of the most regularly derided but tenaciously enduring of popular arts. It is also a series of virtuoso philosophical and psychological reflections on the problems and astonishments, the raptures and absurdities of the unhoused voice. |
| history of ventriloquism: Ventriloquism Made Easy Paul Stadelman, Bruce Fife, 2003-08 How to talk to your hand without looking stupid. |
| history of ventriloquism: Ventriloquism George Schindler, Ed Tricomi, 2011-01-20 One of the world's most famous magicomedians and ventriloquists discusses every aspect of his art, revealing a wealth of insider's tricks. Schindler shows how to cultivate a variety of voices and offers helpful suggestions for putting an act together, developing comedy material and scripts, and handling bookings and publicity. 38 figures and photos. |
| history of ventriloquism: I Can See Your Lips Moving, the History and Art of Ventriloquism Valentine Vox, 2019-09 History of ventriloquism from ancient sages to modern stages. Three thousand years of vocal conjuration. |
| history of ventriloquism: Art and Ventriloquism David Goldblatt, 2014-02-04 This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand a variety of art world phenomena. It examines how the vocal vacillation between ventriloquist and dummy works within the roles of artist, artwork and audience as a conveyance to the audience of the performer's intentions, emotions and beliefs through a created performative persona. Considering key works, including those of Nietzsche, Foucault, Socrates, Derrida, Cavell and Wittgenstein, Goldblatt examines how the authors use the framework of ventriloquism to construct and negate issues in art and architecture. He ponders 'self-plagiarism'; why the classic philosopher cannot speak for himself, but must voice his thoughts through fictional characters or inanimate objects and works. With a close analysis of two ventriloquist paintings by Jasper Johns and Paul Klee, a critical commentary by Garry L. Hagberg, and preface by series editor Saul Ostrow, Goldblatt's thoroughly fascinating book will be an invaluable asset to students of cultural studies, art, and philosophy. |
| history of ventriloquism: The Art of Ventriloquism Frederic Maccabe, 1875 |
| history of ventriloquism: The Secret of Ventriloquism Jon Padgett, 2016-10-17 With themes reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, and Bruno Shulz, but with a strikingly unique vision, Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism heralds the arrival of a significant new literary talent. Padgett's work explores the mystery of human suffering, the agony of personal existence, and the ghastly means by which someone might achieve salvation from both. A bullied child who seeks vengeance within a bed's hollow box spring; a lucid dreamer haunted by an impossible house; a dummy that reveals its own anatomy in 20 simple steps; a stuttering librarian who holds the key to a mill town's unspeakable secrets; a commuter whose worldview is shattered by two words printed on a cardboard sign; an aspiring ventriloquist who spends a little too much time looking at himself in a mirror. And the presence that speaks through them all. |
| history of ventriloquism: Knock Wood Candice Bergen, 2014-07 Originally published by Linden Press in 1984. |
| history of ventriloquism: Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction H. Davies, 2012-08-21 Is ventriloquism just for dummies? What is at stake in neo-Victorian fiction's desire to 'talk back' to the nineteenth century? This book explores the sexual politics of dialogues between the nineteenth century and contemporary fiction, offering a new insight into the concept of ventriloquism as a textual and metatextual theme in literature. |
| history of ventriloquism: Ventriloquism for the Total Dummy Dan Ritchard, Kathleen Moloney, 1987 Includes everything you need to know and do to be a ventriloquist. |
| history of ventriloquism: Tenth of December George Saunders, 2013-01-03 The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity. |
| history of ventriloquism: The Ventriloquists E.R. Ramzipoor, 2019-09-01 In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich. The Nazis stole their voices. But they would not be silenced. Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis’ bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin — daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it. Featuring an unforgettable cast of characters and stunning historical detail, E.R. Ramzipoor’s dazzling debut novel illuminates the extraordinary acts of courage by ordinary people forgotten by time. It is a moving and powerful ode to the importance of the written word and to the unlikely heroes who went to extreme lengths to orchestrate the most stunning feat of journalism in modern history. |
| history of ventriloquism: Hearing Things Leigh Eric Schmidt, 2002-11-30 ÒFaith cometh by hearingÓÑso said Saint Paul, and devoted Christians from Augustine to Luther down to the present have placed particular emphasis on spiritual arts of listening. In quiet retreats for prayer, in the noisy exercises of Protestant revivalism, in the mystical pursuit of the voices of angels, Christians have listened for a divine call. But what happened when the ear tuned to GodÕs voice found itself under the inspection of Enlightenment critics? This book takes us into the ensuing debate about Òhearing thingsÓÑan intense, entertaining, even spectacular exchange over the auditory immediacy of popular Christian piety. The struggle was one of encyclopedic range, and Leigh Eric Schmidt conducts us through natural histories of the oracles, anatomies of the diseased ear, psychologies of the unsound mind, acoustic technologies (from speaking trumpets to talking machines), philosophical regimens for educating the senses, and rational recreations elaborated from natural magic, notably ventriloquism and speaking statues. Hearing Things enters this labyrinthÑall the new disciplines and pleasures of the modern earÑto explore the fate of Christian listening during the Enlightenment and its aftermath. In SchmidtÕs analysis the reimagining of hearing was instrumental in constituting religion itself as an object of study and suspicion. The mysticÕs ear was hardly lost, but it was now marked deeply with imposture and illusion. |
| history of ventriloquism: Richard Potter John A. Hodgson, 2018-02-13 Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man. This was an era when few African Americans became highly successful, much less famous. As the son of a slave, Potter was fortunate to have opportunities at all. At home in Boston, he was widely recognized as black, but elsewhere in America audiences entertained themselves with romantic speculations about his Hindu ancestry (a perception encouraged by his act and costumes). Richard Potter’s performances were enjoyed by an enormous public, but his life off stage has always remained hidden and unknown. Now, for the first time, John A. Hodgson tells the remarkable, compelling--and ultimately heartbreaking--story of Potter’s life, a tale of professional success and celebrity counterbalanced by racial vulnerability in an increasingly hostile world. It is a story of race relations, too, and of remarkable, highly influential black gentlemanliness and respectability: as the unsung precursor of Frederick Douglass, Richard Potter demonstrated to an entire generation of Americans that a black man, no less than a white man, could exemplify the best qualities of humanity. The apparently trivial popular entertainment status of his work has long blinded historians to his significance and even to his presence. Now at last we can recognize him as a seminal figure in American history. |
| history of ventriloquism: Inka History in Knots Gary Urton, 2017-04-04 The world's leading authority on Inka khipus presents a comprehensive overview of the types of information recorded in these knotted strings, demonstrating how they can serve as primary documents for a history of the Inka empire. |
| history of ventriloquism: A Pictorial History of Ventriloquism Bob Albano, 2008-08-15 A Pictorial History of VentriloquismTABLE OF CONTENTS for VOLUME 1 I. Early Ventriloquist Entertainers During the 18th & 19th Centuries p11II. Vaudeville Performers 1900-1930 p33III. Motion Picture & TV Eras: 1930-2000 p81 IV. Ventriloquists of the 21st Century p161V. Dummy Makers p237TABLE OF CONTENTS for VOLUME 2 I. Puppet Makers p279 II. Ventriloquists on Miss America p287III. Unidentified Ventriloquists p291IV. Ventriloquist Toys p301V. Comedy and Drama p319VI. Horror p327VII. Miscellany Images p341VIII. Books: Fiction p353IX. Books: Non-Fiction p361X. Intriguing Websites p379XI. Media: Audio & Video p387XII. DVDs of Ventriloquist Performances p397SPECIAL TRIBUTE CHAPTERSXIII. Paul Winchell p403XIV. Edgar Bergen p417XV. Fred Russell p447XVI. Harry Lester p453XVII. Peter Brough p459XVIII. Jimmy Nelson p467XIX. Shari Lewis p479XX. Buffalo Bob & Howdy Doody p489XXI. Wayland Flowers p497XXII. Willie Tyler p503XXIII. Jay Johnson p511XXIV. Ronn Lucas p517XXV. Jeff Dunham p523 |
| history of ventriloquism: Media Ventriloquism Jaimie Baron, Jennifer Fleeger, Shannon Wong Lerner, 2021-03-18 The word ventriloquism has traditionally referred to the act of throwing one's voice into an object that appears to speak. Media Ventriloquism repurposes the term to reflect our complex vocal relationship with media technologies. The 21st century has offered an array of technological means to separate voice from body, practices which have been used for good and ill. We currently zoom about the internet, in conversations full of audio glitches, using tools that make it possible to live life at a distance. Yet at the same time, these technologies subject us to the potential for audiovisual manipulation. But this voice/body split is not new. Radio, cinema, television, video games, digital technologies, and other media have each fundamentally transformed the relationship between voice and body in myriad and often unexpected ways. This book explores some of these experiences of ventriloquism and considers the political and ethical implications of separating bodies from voices. The essays in the collection, which represent a variety of academic disciplines, demonstrate not only how particular bodies and voices have been (mis)represented through media ventriloquism, but also how marginalized groups - racialized, gendered, and queered, among them - have used media ventriloquism to claim their agency and power. |
| history of ventriloquism: Army of Lovers Sarah Liss, 2013-09-16 In the spring of 2010, Toronto lost one of its most important queer civic heroes. Weaving together interviews and stories, Army of Lovers is a biography of Will Munro and a document of a galvanizing period when various subcultures — the queer community, the art scene, the independent music universe, the grassroots activist enclaves — came together. |
| history of ventriloquism: Punch and Judy in 19th Century America Ryan Howard, 2014-01-02 The hand-puppet play starring the characters Punch and Judy was introduced from England and became extremely popular in the United States in the 1800s. This book details information on nearly 350 American Punch players. It explores the significance of the 19th-century American show as a reflection of the attitudes and conditions of its time and place. The century was a time of changing feelings about what it means to be human. There was an intensified awareness of the racial, cultural, social and economical diversity of the human species, and a corresponding concern for the experience of human oneness. The American Punch and Judy show was one of the manifestations of these conditions. |
| history of ventriloquism: Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit Paul Winchell, 2013-04-16 This early work is a fascinating read for entertainment enthusiasts. Thoroughly recommended for the bookshelf of the amateur or professional ventriloquist it contains a wealth of information that is still useful and practical today. Contents Include: So You Want To Be a Ventriloquist, From Witchcraft to Music Halls, The Voice-The Beginning of Ventriloquism, How To Build a Dummy-Part 1, How To Build a Dummy-Part 2, Mechanism for Realism-Part 1, Moving Mouth, Mechanism for Realism-Part 2, Moving Eyes, Painting the Dummy and Building the Body, Synchronization and Manipulation, Additional Manipulation, Character, Costume and Conversation, Routines and Sketches, Just for Fun, For Profit, and A Few Conclusions. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
| history of ventriloquism: Wieland, Or the Transformation Charles Brockden Brown, 1857 |
| history of ventriloquism: Always the Young Strangers Carl Sandburg, 2015-10-20 The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir. Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature. In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life around the turn of the twentieth century and an invaluable perspective on American history. |
| history of ventriloquism: She's at the Controls Helen Reddington, 2021 Starting Out : Early Engagements with Sound, Music and Technology -- Becoming Professional : Entering the music industry -- Specialisation and Entrepreneurship -- The Workplace Experience and Relationships with Clients and Colleagues -- Male Culture and Studio Territory -- Gender Ventriloquism : Song writing, production and the mediation of women's voices -- Fighting Back Against Stereotyping : the case of EDM -- Education, Inspiration and Potential for Change. |
| history of ventriloquism: Current Practices in Workplace and Organizational Learning Bente Elkjaer, Maja Marie Lotz, Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen, 2022-01-01 The central assumption that guides this book is that research and practice about learning at the workplace has recently lost its critical edge. This book explores what has happened to workplace learning and organizational learning and studies what has replaced it. In addition, the book discusses to what extend there are reasons to revitalize it. Today, themes such as ‘innovation’, ‘co-creation’ and ‘knowledge sharing’ seem to have become preferred and referred to as theoretical fields as well as fields of practice. In several chapters of this book it is argued that the critical power of learning could be regained by starting a new discussion of how these new fields of practice can be substantiated by topics such as learning arrangements, learning mechanisms, and learning strategies. Hence, the aim of this book is to both advance and recapture our knowledge of learning in today’s increasingly complex world of work and organizing. The contributions in this work do so by revisiting classic research on workplace and organizational learning and discussing how insights from this body of literature evokes new meaning. It sets the stage for new agendas and rethinks current practices that are entangled in activities such as innovation, co-creation, knowledge sharing or other currently widespread fields of practice. |
| history of ventriloquism: Who's the Dummy Now? Terry Fator, 2008 Describes how the ventriloquist overcame an abusive childhood and years as a struggling entertainer to pursue his dreams and, after winning America's Got Talent, has gone on to have a successful career in television and Las Vegas. |
| history of ventriloquism: Better Living Through Ventriloquism Ronn Lucas, Chris Clobber, 2007-01-22 With practice scripts, real-life scenarios, and a starter hand puppet, this book is designed to help the reader get that great job, take charge of any situation, and generally improve his or her life. Consumable. |
| history of ventriloquism: Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction H. Davies, 2012-08-21 Is ventriloquism just for dummies? What is at stake in neo-Victorian fiction's desire to 'talk back' to the nineteenth century? This book explores the sexual politics of dialogues between the nineteenth century and contemporary fiction, offering a new insight into the concept of ventriloquism as a textual and metatextual theme in literature. |
| history of ventriloquism: Everybody a Ventriloquist; a History of Ventriloquism Antonio Blitz, 1856 |
| history of ventriloquism: Ventriloquist Rick Mitchell, 2012 Ventriloquist: Two Plays goes deep into the world of notable American playwright Rick Mitchell's performative and diabolical examination of ventriloquism and the duality of man, featuring two of his most respected and autobiographical works: Ventriloquist Sex and Ventriloquist Adrift. |
| history of ventriloquism: Edward Hopper Ernest Farrés, 2010 Each poem in 'Edward Hopper' is based on a painting by the American artist. Together they form a narrative sketching the life of the subject from small-town origins to big-city life, from youth to age. |
| history of ventriloquism: The Ventriloquist: Poetic Narratives from the Womb of War Gary Geddes, 2022-01-04 The Ventriloquist gives us four fearless and seminal works by one of Canada's master poets. A scathing indictment of war and its ravages, it's also a testament to the power of poetic narrative. Gary Geddes is known for his first-person narrative poems and seamless impersonations. Those figures reaching out from the near or distant past to have their story told include a youth in charge of horses on a doomed and bloody mission to the New World during the Spanish conquest; a so-called mad bomber who dies in a washroom of the House of Commons when the dynamite he is carrying explodes; a wily and outrageous Chinese sculptor and his legion of warrior subjects struggling against imperial edicts to conform; and POWs in Hong Kong and Japan in World War II doing their damnedest to survive, a struggle that continued back home in the face of shocking neglect. Geddes finds the phrase that best describes this kind of historical rescue work is the ventriloquism of history, but jokingly admits that he's never quite sure if he's ventriloquist or dummy. The critics have no doubt about this, however, calling his work stunning, wonderful, breathtaking in its imaginative reach and verbal dexterity. Robert Kroetsch described War & Other Measures as the kind of poem poets are only supposed to be able to dream ... the sustained calibration is beautiful. I didn't know the long poem could be so taut.... The years of art and craft are in the book. Hong Kong Poems prompted Michael Estok to say in a review in The Fiddlehead: It is a weighty and worthy and admirable undertaking.... [Geddes's] book of elegies puts him on the same level of poetic intensity (perhaps he even surpasses it) of Milton's 'Lycidas' or Tennyson's In Memoriam. These words of praise are reflected in the awards the books received on first publication: the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize, Writers Choice Award, National Magazine Gold Award, and Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region). The Terracotta Army, which won the latter award, was also dramatized and broadcast by CBC and BBC radio. |
| history of ventriloquism: Gottle O' Geer! Ray Alan, 1987 |
| history of ventriloquism: History of Ventriloquism Paul Garnault, George Havelock Helm, 1900 |
| history of ventriloquism: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ventriloquism Taylor Mason, 2010-05-04 The art of bellyspeaking isn't for dummies The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Ventriloquism teaches everyone to speak from their bellies, create and substitute sounds, use all the registers of their voice, and create diversions to attract the listener's ear—whether they invest in a fancy puppet or create their own figure out of a sweat sock. • Includes tips for making, manipulating, and talking with their dummy and for it—both at the same time • Advice for getting an act together and taking it on the road-getting gigs, getting paid, and how to improve performances • How to write dialogue and jokes and rehearsal techniques |
| history of ventriloquism: Art of Ventriloquism George W. Callahan, 2013-10 This is a new release of the original 1947 edition. |
| history of ventriloquism: A Line of Driftwood: The ADA Blackjack Story Diane Glancy, 2021-09-14 Diane Glancy once again puts Indigenous women at the center of American history in her account of a young Inupiat woman who survived a treacherous arctic expedition alone. In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue ship finally broke through the ice two years later, she was the only survivor. Diane Glancy discovered Blackjack's diary in the Dartmouth archives and created a new narrative based on the historical record and her vision of this woman's extraordinary life. She tells the story of a woman facing danger, loss, and unimaginable hardship, yet surviving against the odds where four experts could not. Beyond the expedition, the story examines Blackjack's childhood experiences at an Indian residential school, her struggles as a mother and wife, and the faith that enabled her to survive alone on a remote island in the Arctic Sea. Glancy's creative telling of this heroic tale is a high mark in her award-winning hybrid investigations suffering, identity, and Native American history. |
| history of ventriloquism: Grimscribe Thomas Ligotti, 2011-07-31 The second volume in a series of revised editions of the horror story collections of Thomas Ligotti. |
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