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Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's Mid-to-Late Career, Philanthropy, and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America
Although there is still much that is unknown about Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's remarkable life, Chybowski successfully establishes Greenfield's rightful position within professional networks of entertainment managers, musicians, students, church leaders, philanthropists, intellectuals, and activists. Having earned a transatlantic reputation for musical performance, taught and mentored a new generation of African American singers, and pursued significant philanthropic work, she also become a cultural leader and earned the respect of the most influential figures of her day. Greenfield had a remarkable ability to both fulfill and disrupt audience expectations, as evidenced not only by her first tour's complicated reception but also by her later American performance career, which was changed by English reviewers and credentials, growing support for abolition, and eventually emancipation. With the knowledge that the mid-1850s was a turning point in E. T. Greenfield's career and that her reliance on patronage early in life eventually yielded a more powerful position of cultural influence in the late 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s, Greenfield's role as groundbreaker seems all the more significant.
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Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel: Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive commentary on the cruelties and disappointments of life.
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Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
\"No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor's glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last major star to come out of the old Hollywood studio system and she is a legend known for her beauty and her magnetic screen presence in a career that spanned most of the twentieth century and nearly sixty films. But her private life was even more compelling than her Oscar-winning on-screen performances. During her seventy-nine years of rapid-fire love and loss she was married eight times to seven different men. Above all, she was a survivor--by the time she was twenty-six she was twice divorced and once widowed. Her life was a soap opera that ended in a deeply meaningful way when she became the first major celebrity activist to lead the fight against HIV/AIDS. A co-founder of amfAR, she raised more than $100 million for research and patient care. She was also a shrewd businesswoman who made a fortune as the first celebrity perfumer who always demanded to be paid what she was worth. In the first ever authorized biography of the Hollywood icon, Kate Andersen Brower reveals the world through Elizabeth's eyes. Brower uses Elizabeth's unpublished letters, diary entries, and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family to tell the full, unvarnished story of her remarkable career and her explosive private life that made headlines worldwide. Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile, and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at age twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist. Here is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legendary star and her legacy.\"--Amazon.com.
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Becoming the “Black Swan” in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield was first in a lineage of African American women vocalists to earn national and international acclaim. Born into slavery in Mississippi, she grew up in Philadelphia and launched her first North American concert tour from upstate New York in 1851. Hailed as the “Black Swan” by newspapermen involved in her debut, the soubriquet prefigured a complicated reception of her musical performances. As an African American musician with slavery in her past, she sang what many Americans understood to be “white” music (opera arias, sentimental parlor song, ballads of British Isles, and hymns) from the stages graced by touring European prima donnas on other nights, with ability to sing in a low vocal range that some heard as more typical of men than women. As reviewers and audiences combined fragments of her biography with first-hand experiences of her concerts, they struggled to make the “Black Swan” sobriquet meaningful and the transgressions she represented understandable. Greenfield's musical performances, along with audience expectations and the processes of patronage, management, and newspaper discourse complicated perceived cultural boundaries of race, gender, and class. The implications of E. T. Greenfield's story for antebellum cultural politics and for later generations of singers are profound.
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Elizabeth Taylor : a private life for public consumption
\"Uses the English-born Hollywood star as a lens through which to examine the social changes that have yielded what we now call celebrity culture\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Giant: A study of costume design in transition
The 1956 movie Giant (George Stevens) provides an opportunity to examine costume design in the mid-twentieth century when both the film industry and the fan magazines that supported it were experiencing significant changes. Giant's lead actress, Elizabeth Taylor, was increasingly a fixture in fan magazines, and her growing popularity and role in this movie provided a guise for writing about her extravagant lifestyle. This case study focuses on the contributions of the film's two costume designers, Marjorie Best and Moss Mabry, fashion as a tool of promotion and the effect of Taylor's lifestyle on a film's publicity. It draws on the papers of director George Stevens, Best and Mabry as well as fan publications, and it follows the film from its inception and production to exhibition and promotion.
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Highlights from this issue
In this issue of Thorax (Page 650) Alif and colleagues describe the association between aromatic solvents and metals and lung function decline through analysis of the Tasmanian Health Study. In this issue of Thorax (Page 675) Torres et al examined the effect of urban particulate matter on alveolar macrophage and peripheral blood monocyte function following stimulation with M. Tuberculosis and found that it reduced the monocyte/macrophage syntheses of TNFalpha with variable effects on IL1 and interferon gamma. Art and science collision Art critics use concepts such as space, texture, form, shape, colour, tone, line, movement, unity, harmony, variety, balance, contrast, proportion and pattern to describe works of art.
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