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Language: en
Pages: 286
Pages: 286
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-28 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudeville was also Am
Language: en
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"Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudeville was also A
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-10-31 - Publisher: Macmillan
From 1881 to 1932, vaudeville was at the heart of show business in the UnitedStates. This volume explores the many ways in which vaudeville's story is thestory
Language: en
Pages: 486
Pages: 486
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: New York : Knopf
Language: en
Pages: 399
Pages: 399
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10 - Publisher: JHU Press
Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels