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Autore: | Hilsabeck Geoffrey |
Titolo: | American Vaudeville / Geoffrey Hilsabeck ; with a foreword by Luc Sante |
Pubblicazione: | Morgantown : , : West Virginia University Press, , 2021 |
©2021 | |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 792.70973 |
Soggetto topico: | Vaudeville |
Vaudeville - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Trivia and miscellanea |
Persona (resp. second.): | SanteLucy |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Creation myths -- Vanishing act -- Just what was vaudeville? -- At the wonderland -- Dreamsweat -- Jacks-in-the-pew -- Bright particular star -- The Jonah Man -- The muting of the strings -- Obituaries and obsolescencies -- The playhouse -- History. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere-then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country using lists, creation myths, thumbnail biographies, dreams, and obituaries. A lyric history-part social history, part song-American Vaudeville sits at the nexus between poetry, experimental nonfiction, and, because it includes historic images, art books"-- |
Titolo autorizzato: | American Vaudeville |
ISBN: | 1-952271-06-1 |
9781952271076 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910795611903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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