Author : David Monod
Release : 2020-09-28
Genre : History
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Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925 - 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 Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925 write by David Monod. This book was released on 2020-09-28. Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudeville was also America's most popular commercial amusement from the mid-1890s to the First World War; at its peak, 5 million Americans attended vaudeville shows every week. Telling the story of this pioneering art form's rise and decline, David Monod looks through the apparent carnival of vaudeville performance and asks: what made the theater so popular and transformative? Although he acknowledges its quirkiness, Monod makes the case that vaudeville became so popular because it offered audiences a guide to a modern urban lifestyle. Vaudeville acts celebrated sharp city styles and denigrated old-fashioned habits, showcased new music and dance moves, and promulgated a deeply influential vernacular modernism. The variety show's off-the-rack trendiness perfectly suited an era when goods and services were becoming more affordable and the mass market promised to democratize style, offering a clear vision of how the quintessential twentieth-century citizen should look, talk, move, feel, and act.