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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...
| 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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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The vogue for vaudeville : urbanity, comfort, and celebrity
- Ragging style : presenting the modern American
- Grabbing attention : making good with the distracted audience
- Vaudeville modernism
- The business of mass entertainment
- The hook : vaudeville makes its exit.