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American Vaudeville as Ritual
This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limit...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
1965.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; One: The Symbolism of Vaudeville; Two: Evolution of a Ritual; Three: The New Folk and Their Heroes; Four: From Sin to Sociology; Five: The Mechanics of Fantasy; Six: The New Humor; Seven: A Modern Totemism and Sorcery; Eight: The Playlets; Nine: The Palaces; Ten: The Patterns of Ritual Meaning; Notes; A Note on the Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.