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From traveling show to vaudeville : theatrical spectacle in America, 1830-1910 /
Author explores dime museums, minstrelsy, the circus, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: From Celebration to Show Business; THE DIME MUSEUM; Early Museum Shows; Selling and Seeing Curiosities; Commentary; Dog Days of the Museum; MINSTRELSY; Routines: Songs, Speeches, Dialogue, and Farce; Commentary: Rise and Fall of ''Slave'' Creativity; Reminiscences; Musical Comedy: Harrigan's Mulligan Guard; Confessions of an African American Minstrel; THE CIRCUS; The Circus Debated; The Early Circus; Big Business; The Audience; MELODRAMA; A Plea for an American Drama; Classic Melodrama; Classic Melodrama's Audiences; The Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodramas.
- ''LEG SHOW'' BURLESQUE EXTRAVAGANZASThe Black Crook; A Burlesque of Burlesque; Reactions to the Controversy; The Popular-Price Circuit; THE WILD WEST SHOW; Origins; Extracts from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Programs; Exhibiting Indians; SUMMER AMUSEMENT PARKS; Journalists and the ''New'' Coney; Showmen and the ''Amusement Business''; Popular Responses; Two Critics of Coney's Banality; VAUDEVILLE; Vaudeville Defined; The Business; Routines; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.