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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Monod, David, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.