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Vaudeville melodies : popular musicians and mass entertainment in American culture, 1870-1929 / Nicholas Gebhardt.
Author
Gebhardt, Nicholas
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Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
xii, 179 pages ; 23 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
PN1968.U5 G43 2017
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Vaudeville
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United States
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Revues
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United States
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Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)
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United States
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Popular music
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United States
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Summary note
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. 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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-172) and index.
Contents
That's entertainment
There's no business like show business
Rites of passage
Elementary structures
Show me the money
On with the show
In search of an audience
Vaudeville melodies
Nothing succeeds like success
Applause.
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ISBN
9780226448558 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
022644855X ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
9780226448695 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
022644869X ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
022644872X
9780226448725
LCCN
2016034775
OCLC
955275242
Other standard number
40026973593
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