| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 384 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
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''LEG SHOW'' BURLESQUE EXTRAVAGANZASThe 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 |
| Summary |
Author explores dime museums, minstrelsy, the circus, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville |
| Analysis |
"Multi-User" |
| Notes |
OldControl:muse9780801899942 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-376) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Performing arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Performing arts -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Performing arts
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Unterhaltungskunst
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Vaudeville.
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Muziektheater.
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Reizende toneelgezelschappen.
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lewis, Robert M., 1946-
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| ISBN |
9780801899942 |
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080189994X |
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9780801870873 |
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0801870879 |
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