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American Vaudeville
"At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere-then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2021.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
In place (Morgantown, W. Va.) |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere-then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country using lists, creation myths, thumbnail biographies, dreams, and obituaries. A lyric history-part social history, part song-American Vaudeville sits at the nexus between poetry, experimental nonfiction, and, because it includes historic images, art books"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 146 pages ) illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781952271076 195227107X |