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Il medicine show è uno spettacolo itinerante, diffuso nel Far West durante il diciannovesimo secolo e mirato a vendere in loco dei presunti medicinali, toccasana o elisir. Nel corso di tali spettacoli, organizzati da ciarlatani e a volte accompagnati da bande musicali, si esibivano artisti di strada , musicisti , illusionisti ...
Medicine Show – singolo dei Big Audio Dynamite del 1984. Madlib Medicine Show – serie di album di Madlib pubblicati tra il 2010 e il 2012.
- 68:05
- 1984
- History
- Hamlin's Wizard Oil Company and Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company
- 20th Century
- Bibliography
Origins
While showmen pitching miraculous cures have been around since classical times, the advent of mixed performance and medicine sales in western culture originated during the Dark Ages in Europe after circuses and theatres were banned and performers had only the marketplace or patrons for support. Mountebanks traveled through small towns and large cities, selling miraculous elixirs by offering small street shows and miraculous cures. Itinerant peddlersof dubious medicines appeared in the America...
Nineteenth century
Over the course of the nineteenth century, traveling mountebanks gave way to more polished medicine shows, which availed themselves of a burgeoning patent medicine industry. At least 1,500 patent medicines were recorded by 1858, affording enterprising drifters a specific product to sell. These "medicines" seldom treated the specific symptoms of an illness, instead relying on stimulants or other drugs to produce a pleasurable effect. Alcohol, opium and cocaine were typical ingredients, and the...
The two largest and most successful American medicine shows were Hamlin's Wizard Oil Company, founded in Chicago by John and Lysander Hamlin, and the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company, founded in 1881 by Charles Bigelow and John Healey. Hamlin's Wizard Oil Company troupes travelled in specially designed wagons, with built-in organs and space for mus...
As reliable commercial pharmaceuticals were produced on an industrial level in the early 20th century, the reputation of and market for home remedies began to dwindle, and medicine shows came to rely ever more on their entertainment value. But as America's population became less rural and more urbanized, the availability of other forms of entertain...
Agnew, Jeremy. Entertainment in the Old West: Theater, Music, Circuses, Medicine Shows, Prizefighting and Other Popular Amusements. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2011. Print.Anderson, Ann. Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2000. Print.Hartman, Donald K. Edward Oliver Tilburn (aka N. T. Oliver, Ned Oliver, Nevada Ned, and Edward Tilburne): The Profile of a Con-Artist. Buffalo, N.Y.: Themes & Settings in Fiction Press, 2022.. Neva...McNamara, Brooks. Step Right up. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1976. Print.Il medicine show è uno spettacolo itinerante, diffuso nel Far West durante il diciannovesimo secolo e mirato a vendere in loco dei presunti medicinali, toccasana o elisir. Nel corso di tali spettacoli, organizzati da ciarlatani e a volte accompagnati da bande musicali, si esibivano artisti di strada, musicisti, illusionisti, fenomeni da ...
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show is an American rock band, formed in Union City, New Jersey. The band had commercial success in the 1970s with hit singles "Sylvia's Mother", "The Cover of 'Rolling...
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (shortened to Dr. Hook in 1975) is an American rock band, formed in Union City, New Jersey.
1 gen 2001 · Scheda film The Medicine Show (2001) | Leggi la recensione, trama, cast completo, critica e guarda trailer, foto, immagini, poster e locandina del film diretto da Wendell Morris con Jonathan Silverman, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Greg Grunberg.
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