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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
In place (Morgantown, W. Va.) |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.