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From Traveling Show to Vaudeville
Robert M. . Ed(S): Lewis
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Description for From Traveling Show to Vaudeville
Hardback. Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society. Editor(s): Lewis, Robert M. Num Pages: 400 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 749.
Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes-all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera houses, and big-city palaces around the country, giving millions of people an escape from their everyday lives for a dime or a quarter. In From Traveling Show to Vaudeville, Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores, in turn, dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville. ... Read more
Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes-all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera houses, and big-city palaces around the country, giving millions of people an escape from their everyday lives for a dime or a quarter. In From Traveling Show to Vaudeville, Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores, in turn, dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801870873
SKU
V9780801870873
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About Robert M. . Ed(S): Lewis
Robert M. Lewis is a lecturer in American history at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
Reviews for From Traveling Show to Vaudeville
Lewis's book provides not only a wealth of information but also delightful reading. It should be part of every library as a starter point for classes on American nineteenth-century public culture. Amerikastudien / American Studies 2006 Belongs in the collection of anyone who claims to be serious about the study of American popular entertainments. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 2006 ... Read more