Vaudeville and the making of modern entertainment, 1890-1925
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.
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Further subjects: | B
Vaudeville (United States)
History 20th century
B Vaudeville (United States) History 19th century B Popular Culture (United States) History 20th century |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Electronic Electronic |
| Summary: | 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. "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 269 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4696-6055-4 978-1-4696-6054-7 |
