juggling history?

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2 total messages Started by Bradford J. Linder Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:38

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Author: Bradford J. Linder
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:38

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Does anyone know of any good books on or including sections on the early 
history of juggling?  The art can be traced back for thousands of years,
yet there I've been able to find so little information about pre-twentieth
century juggling.  I'm also interested in the newer stuff, so if anyone has
any recommended readin along those lines too, I'll look into it.  
Thanky...

-- 
--Bradford Linder, the self proclaimed, sudden expert on devilbunnies..--
 (but obviously not on spelling)

Re: juggling history?

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Author: Gregory Cohen
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:40

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In article <1iteevINNdgm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bj871@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bradford J. Linder) writes:
>
>Does anyone know of any good books on or including sections on the early 
>history of juggling?  The art can be traced back for thousands of years,
>yet there I've been able to find so little information about pre-twentieth
>century juggling.  I'm also interested in the newer stuff, so if anyone has
>any recommended readin along those lines too, I'll look into it.  
>Thanky...
>
>-- 
>--Bradford Linder, the self proclaimed, sudden expert on devilbunnies..--
> (but obviously not on spelling)
>
>

4000 Years of Juggling by Karl Heinz Zeithen.

This book traces the history of juggling, but its complete lack of a bibligraphy
or footnotes to denote sources leaves me befuddled.  I've traced many of his
"early history" back to sources and much of is is inaccurate.  Not completely
wrong, just streched a little.  This may be from the german to english 
translation that Mr. Zeithen once complained to me about.  This two volume work
is currently out of print, but there is one copy available through interlibrary
loan (it isn't copy-writed if your interested) and Dube' is due to reprint it
in one volume shortly.  (there is a huge amount of white space that could be
removed.)

-GReg Cohen
Infinite Illusions

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