Yankee Doodle Dandy - Dizikes, John
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In the 1890s the world of racing was turned on its ear by a young American who rode horses as no professional jockey had ever ridden: Tod Sloan hitched up his stirrups and thrust his weight far forward. Traditionalists laughed at first and dismissed him as a novelty, but as he came to dominate racing on both sides of the Atlantic, his style of riding became widely imitated, and his famous "forward seat" remains universally practiced to this day. Sloan's place in racing lore and popular culture was cemented in 1904 when George M. Cohan wrote and starred in "Little Johnny Jones, a Broadway musical based on Sloan's rise and fall in England.…mehr

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In the 1890s the world of racing was turned on its ear by a young American who rode horses as no professional jockey had ever ridden: Tod Sloan hitched up his stirrups and thrust his weight far forward. Traditionalists laughed at first and dismissed him as a novelty, but as he came to dominate racing on both sides of the Atlantic, his style of riding became widely imitated, and his famous "forward seat" remains universally practiced to this day. Sloan's place in racing lore and popular culture was cemented in 1904 when George M. Cohan wrote and starred in "Little Johnny Jones, a Broadway musical based on Sloan's rise and fall in England.
Autorenporträt
Winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for his Opera in America: A Cultural History, John Dizikes is an emeritus professor of American studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.