American Vaudeville Geoffrey Hilsabeck ; with a foreword by Luc Sante.

"At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere-then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country...

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Main Author: Hilsabeck, Geoffrey (Author)
Other Authors: Sante, Lucy (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
In place (Morgantown, W. Va.)
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505 0 |a Creation myths -- Vanishing act -- Just what was vaudeville? -- At the wonderland -- Dreamsweat -- Jacks-in-the-pew -- Bright particular star -- The Jonah Man -- The muting of the strings -- Obituaries and obsolescencies -- The playhouse -- History. 
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