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From traveling show to vaudeville : theatrical spectacle in America, 1830-1910 / edited by Robert M. Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--United States--History--19th century.
- Performing arts.
- Performing arts--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (399 p.)
- Edition:
- Johns Hopkins paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION: From Celebration to Show Business
- THE DIME MUSEUM
- Early Museum Shows
- Selling and Seeing Curiosities
- Commentary
- Dog Days of the Museum
- MINSTRELSY
- Routines: Songs, Speeches, Dialogue, and Farce
- Commentary: Rise and Fall of ''Slave'' Creativity
- Reminiscences
- Musical Comedy: Harrigan's Mulligan Guard
- Confessions of an African American Minstrel
- THE CIRCUS
- The Circus Debated
- The Early Circus
- Big Business
- The Audience
- MELODRAMA
- A Plea for an American Drama
- Classic Melodrama
- Classic Melodrama's Audiences
- The Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodramas
- ''LEG SHOW'' BURLESQUE EXTRAVAGANZAS
- The Black Crook
- A Burlesque of Burlesque
- Reactions to the Controversy
- The Popular-Price Circuit
- THE WILD WEST SHOW
- Origins
- Extracts from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Programs
- Exhibiting Indians
- SUMMER AMUSEMENT PARKS
- Journalists and the ''New'' Coney
- Showmen and the ''Amusement Business''
- Popular Responses
- Two Critics of Coney's Banality
- VAUDEVILLE
- Vaudeville Defined
- The Business
- Routines
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 8, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9994-X
- OCLC:
- 794701429
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