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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
Autor principal: Hilsabeck, Geoffrey (Autor)
Otros Autores: Sante, Luc (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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