04138nam 22006855 450 991016271410332120240606150920.00-226-44872-X10.7208/9780226448725(CKB)3710000001032926(StDuBDS)EDZ0001660444(DE-B1597)523381(OCoLC)970659217(DE-B1597)9780226448725(MiAaPQ)EBC4786329(EXLCZ)99371000000103292620191022d2017 fg engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierVaudeville Melodies Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929 /Nicholas GebhardtChicago :University of Chicago Press,[2017]©20171 online resourcePreviously issued in print: 2017.0-226-44869-X 0-226-44855-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Chapter One. That's Entertainment --Chapter Two. There's No Business Like Show Business --Chapter Three. Rites of Passage --Chapter Four. Elementary Structures --Chapter Five. Show Me the Money --Chapter Six. On with the Show --Chapter Seven. In Search of an Audience --Chapter Eight. Vaudeville Melodies --Chapter Nine. Nothing Succeeds Like Success --Chapter Ten. Applause --Notes --Bibliography --IndexIf you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying the groundwork for the music industry we know today. In Vaudeville Melodies, Nicholas Gebhardt introduces us to the performers, managers, and audiences who turned disjointed variety show acts into a phenomenally successful business. First introduced in the late nineteenth century, by 1915 vaudeville was being performed across the globe, incorporating thousands of performers from every branch of show business. Its astronomical success relied on a huge network of theatres, each part of a circuit and administered from centralized booking offices. Gebhardt shows us how vaudeville transformed relationships among performers, managers, and audiences, and argues that these changes affected popular music culture in ways we are still seeing today. Drawing on firsthand accounts, Gebhardt explores the practices by which vaudeville performers came to understand what it meant to entertain an audience, the conditions in which they worked, the institutions they relied upon, and the values they imagined were essential to their success.VaudevilleUnited States19th centuryHistory and criticismVaudevilleUnited States20th centuryHistory and criticismRevuesUnited States19th centuryHistory and criticismRevuesUnited States20th centuryHistory and criticismMusic-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)United StatesHistory19th centuryMusic-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)United StatesHistory20th centuryPopular musicUnited StatesAmerican vaudeville.corporate culture.entertainment.music industry.popular musicians.popular success.VaudevilleHistory and criticism.VaudevilleHistory and criticism.RevuesHistory and criticism.RevuesHistory and criticism.Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)HistoryMusic-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)HistoryPopular music792.70973Gebhardt Nicholas995714DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910162714103321Vaudeville Melodies2281602UNINA