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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Bibliographic Details
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.)
Subjects:	Hilsabeck, Geoffrey. Vaudeville > United States > Miscellanea. Vaudeville United States Trivia and miscellanea
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

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.

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

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