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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 its peak, 5 million Americans attended va...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Monod, David, 1960- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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 its peak, 5 million Americans attended vaudeville shows every week. Telling the story of this pioneering art form's rise and decline, David Monod looks through the apparent carnival of vaudeville performance and asks: what made the theater so popular and transformative? Although he acknowledges its quirkiness, Monod makes the case that vaudeville became so popular because it offered audiences a guide to a modern urban lifestyle"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (288 pages).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469660578