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Podcast: Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters
Episode: Carnivals & Trance Music - Bass Reeves Ep 5
Description: The 19th Century contains so much of what the modern age is - and we get to see some of the stranger aspects in this episode…The Medicine Show or Carnival with spiritualism, menageries and mountebanks. And then the merging of the ancient work songs with the modern era - to create the soundtracks we now live with.And of course, the beginnings of traveling to go some place - just to see it. The idea that the world is a big giant place filled with wonders we have never imagined coming to a town...