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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hilsabeck, Geoffrey (Autor)
Otros Autores: Sante, Lucy (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
In place (Morgantown, W. Va.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Creation myths
  • Vanishing act
  • Just what was vaudeville?
  • At the wonderland
  • Dreamsweat
  • Jacks-in-the-pew
  • Bright particular star
  • The Jonah Man
  • The muting of the strings
  • Obituaries and obsolescencies
  • The playhouse
  • History.