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, five million Americans attended vaudev...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020].
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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.