From Traveling Show to Vaudeville - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Traveling Show to Vaudeville write by Robert M. Lewis. This book was released on 2007-10-01. From Traveling Show to Vaudeville available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Included in this compendium are biographies, programs, ephemera produced by theatrical entrepreneurs to lure audiences to their shows, photographs, scripts, and song lyrics as well as newspaper accounts, reviews, and interviews with such figures as P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody. Lewis also gives us reminiscences about and reactions to various shows by members of audiences, including such prominent writers as Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, and Maxim Gorky. Each section also includes a concise introduction that places the genre of spectacle into its historical and cultural context and suggests major interpretive themes. The book closes with a bibliographic essay that identifies relevant scholarly works. 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.
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Traveling Show to Vaudeville write by Robert M. Lewis. This book was released on 2007-10. From Traveling Show to Vaudeville available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Included in this compendium are biographies, programs, ephemera produced by theatrical entrepreneurs to lure audiences to their shows, photographs, scripts, and song lyrics as well as newspaper accounts, reviews, and interviews with such figures as P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody. Lewis also gives us reminiscences about and reactions to various shows by members of audiences, including such prominent writers as Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, and Maxim Gorky. Each section also includes a concise introduction that places the genre of spectacle into its historical and cultural context and suggests major interpretive themes. The book closes with a bibliographic essay that identifies relevant scholarly works. 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.
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Traveling Show to Vaudeville write by Robert M. Lewis. This book was released on 2003. From Traveling Show to Vaudeville available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
No Applause--Just Throw Money
No Applause--Just Throw Money - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Applause--Just Throw Money write by Trav S.D.. This book was released on 2006-10-31. No Applause--Just Throw Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From 1881 to 1932, vaudeville was at the heart of show business in the UnitedStates. This volume explores the many ways in which vaudeville's story is thestory of show business in America.
Moon Over Vaudeville
Moon Over Vaudeville - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moon Over Vaudeville write by Maureen McCabe. This book was released on 2011. Moon Over Vaudeville available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Softcover - Biography/Memoir. A charming morsel of a book about one man's real life Vaudeville story tap dancing back and forth across the country in the 1930s. More than 100 photos and newspaper clippings to enjoy.
