Vaudeville Melodies : Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929 / / Nicholas Gebhardt
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Gebhardt Nicholas
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| Titolo: |
Vaudeville Melodies : Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929 / / Nicholas Gebhardt
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 792.70973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Vaudeville - United States - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Vaudeville - United States - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Revues - United States - 19th century - History and criticism | |
| Revues - United States - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Popular music - United States | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | American vaudeville |
| corporate culture | |
| entertainment | |
| music industry | |
| popular musicians | |
| popular success | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | If 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Vaudeville Melodies |
| ISBN: | 0-226-44872-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910162714103321 |
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