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Vaudeville and the making of modern entertainment, 1890-1925 / David Monod.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monod, David, 1960- author.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vaudeville--United States--History--20th century.
- Vaudeville.
- Vaudeville--United States--History--19th century.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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: just what made the theater so popular and transformative?
- 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.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908590-8-2
- 979-88-908590-9-9
- 1-4696-6056-3
- 1-4696-6057-1
- OCLC:
- 1198555319
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