LEADER 04138nam 22006855 450 001 9910162714103321 005 20240606150920.0 010 $a0-226-44872-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226448725 035 $a(CKB)3710000001032926 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001660444 035 $a(DE-B1597)523381 035 $a(OCoLC)970659217 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226448725 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4786329 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001032926 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aVaudeville Melodies $ePopular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929 /$fNicholas Gebhardt 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-226-44869-X 311 $a0-226-44855-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One. That's Entertainment --$tChapter Two. There's No Business Like Show Business --$tChapter Three. Rites of Passage --$tChapter Four. Elementary Structures --$tChapter Five. Show Me the Money --$tChapter Six. On with the Show --$tChapter Seven. In Search of an Audience --$tChapter Eight. Vaudeville Melodies --$tChapter Nine. Nothing Succeeds Like Success --$tChapter Ten. Applause --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIf 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. 606 $aVaudeville$zUnited States$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aVaudeville$zUnited States$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRevues$zUnited States$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRevues$zUnited States$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMusic-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMusic-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPopular music$zUnited States 610 $aAmerican vaudeville. 610 $acorporate culture. 610 $aentertainment. 610 $amusic industry. 610 $apopular musicians. 610 $apopular success. 615 0$aVaudeville$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aVaudeville$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRevues$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRevues$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMusic-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)$xHistory 615 0$aMusic-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)$xHistory 615 0$aPopular music 676 $a792.70973 700 $aGebhardt$b Nicholas$0995714 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162714103321 996 $aVaudeville Melodies$92281602 997 $aUNINA