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Vaudeville and the making of modern entertainment, 1890-1925 /
Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudeville was also America's most popular commercial amusement from the mid-1890s to the First World War; at it's peak, 5 million Americans attended va...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. The vogue for vaudeville: urbanity, comfort, and celebrity
- Two. Ragging style: presenting the modern American
- Three. Grabbing attention: making good with the distracted audience
- Four. Vaudeville modernism
- Five. The business of mass entertainment
- Six. The hook: vaudeville makes its exit
- Notes
- Index.