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Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vaudeville Times written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Hilsabeck
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ISBN 13 : 9781952271069
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book American Vaudeville written by Geoffrey Hilsabeck and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture--and with old, weird America. 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 using lists, creation myths, thumbnail biographies, dreams, and obituaries. A lyric history--part social history, part song--American Vaudeville sits at the nexus between poetry, experimental nonfiction, and, because it includes historic images, art books. Geoffrey Hilsabeck's book grows out of extensive archival research. Rather than arranging that research--the remains of vaudeville--into a realistic picture or tidy narrative, Hilsabeck dreams vaudeville back into existence, drawing on photographs, letters, joke books, reviews, newspaper stories, anecdotes, and other material gathered from numerous archives, as well as from memoirs by vaudeville performers like Buster Keaton, Eva Tanguay, and Eddie Cantor. Some of this research is presented as-is, a letter from a now forgotten vaudeville performer to her booking agent, for example; some is worked up into brief scenes and biographies; and some is put to even more imaginative uses, finding new life in dialogues and prose poems. American Vaudeville pulls the past into the present and finds in the beauty and carnivalesque grotesqueness of vaudeville a fitting image of American life today.
Author : Andrew L. Erdman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147661329X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Blue Vaudeville written by Andrew L. Erdman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work reveals the often racy, ribald, and sexually charged nature of the vaudeville stage, looking at a broad array of provocative performers from disrobing dancers to nude posers to skimpily dressed athletes. Examining the ways in which big-time vaudeville nonetheless managed to market itself as pure, safe, and morally acceptable, this work compares the industry's marketing and promotional practices to those of other emergent mass-marketers of the vaudeville era in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Included are in-depth examinations of important figures from the vaudeville stage such as Annette Kellerman and Eva Tanguay. The work attempts to address historical context as one means of understanding these performers with an appreciation for their rebelliousness. It discusses censorship and content control in the vaudeville era, and concludes with an analysis of film's part in the fall of vaudeville. Many photographs, cartoons, and other illustrations are included.
Author : Trav S.D.
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865479585
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)
Download or read book No Applause--Just Throw Money written by Trav S.D. and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Frank Cullen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415938538
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Vaudeville old & new written by Frank Cullen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Hal Leonard
ISBN 13 : 1705103928
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Six: The Musical - Vocal Selections written by and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Vocal Selections). Six has received rave reviews around the world for its modern take on the stories of the six wives of Henry VIII and it's finally opening on Broadway! From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an exuberant celebration of 21st century girl power! Songs include: All You Wanna Do * Don't Lose Ur Head * Ex-Wives * Get Down * Haus of Holbein * Heart of Stone * I Don't Need Your Love * No Way * Six.
Author : Andrew L. Erdman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465281
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Queen of Vaudeville written by Andrew L. Erdman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her day, Eva Tanguay (1879–1947) was one of the most famous women in America. Widely known as the "I Don't Care Girl"—named after a song she popularized and her independent, even brazen persona—Tanguay established herself as a vaudeville and musical comedy star in 1901 with the New York City premiere of the show My Lady—and never looked back. Tanguay was, at the height of a long career that stretched until the early 1930s, a trend-setting performer who embodied the emerging ideal of the bold and sexual female entertainer. Whether suggestively singing songs with titles like "It's All Been Done Before But Not the Way I Do It" and "Go As Far As You Like" or wearing a daring dress made of pennies, she was a precursor to subsequent generations of performers, from Mae West to Madonna and Lady Gaga, who have been both idolized and condemned for simultaneously displaying and playing with blatant displays of female sexuality. In Queen of Vaudeville, Andrew L. Erdman tells Eva Tanguay's remarkable life story with verve. Born into the family of a country doctor in rural Quebec and raised in a New England mill town, Tanguay found a home on the vaudeville stage. Erdman follows the course of her life as she amasses fame and wealth, marries (and divorces) twice, engages in affairs closely followed in the press, declares herself a Christian Scientist, becomes one of the first celebrities to get plastic surgery, loses her fortune following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and receives her last notice, an obituary in Variety. The arc of Tanguay's career follows the history of American popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Tanguay's appeal, so dependent on her physical presence and personal charisma, did not come across in the new media of radio and motion pictures. With nineteen rare or previously unpublished images, Queen of Vaudeville is a dynamic portrait of a dazzling and unjustly forgotten show business star.
Author : Maureen McCabe
Publisher : Moon Over Vaudeville LLC
ISBN 13 : 0983357501
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Moon Over Vaudeville written by Maureen McCabe and published by Moon Over Vaudeville LLC. This book was released on 2011 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Douglas Gilbert
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ISBN 13 : 9780844621289
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (212 download)
Download or read book American Vaudeville written by Douglas Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1984-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Gilbert
Publisher : New York : Dover Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Vaudeville, Its Life and Times written by Douglas Gilbert and published by New York : Dover Publications. This book was released on 1963 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performers are given close attention in this survey of the remarkable fifty-year history of vaudeville.
Author : Frank Cullen
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514347522
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Vaudeville Times written by Frank Cullen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaudeville Times was published quarterly from 1998 until 2008. Each issue ran 20-28 pages and included 4-10 profiles with photos of vaudevillians, old and new, plus reviews and other showbiz histories. AVM is reissuing all forty as a ten volume set. The American Museum of Vaudeville (aka American Vaudeville Museum and AVM) was established in 1982 as a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the preservation, collection, presentation and publication of all vaudeville materials, records and effects as may advance and preserve the knowledge of vaudeville, its performers and its place in the cultural and social history of the United States. AVM received its tax exempt 501 (c) (3) designation in 1984.
Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617032506
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville written by Anthony Slide and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, samplings of routines and, often, commentary by the performers. Many former vaudevillians were interviewed for the book, including Milton Berle, Block and Sully, Kitty Doner, Fifi D'Orsay, Nick Lucas, Ken Murray, Fayard Nicholas, Olga Petrova, Rose Marie, Arthur Tracy, and Rudy Vallee. Where appropriate, entries also include bibliographies. The volume concludes with a guide to vaudeville resources and a general bibliography. Aside from its reference value, with its more than five hundred entries, The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville discusses the careers of the famous and the forgotten. Many of the vaudevillians here, including Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, W. C. Fields, Bert Lahr, and Mae West, are familiar names today, thanks to their continuing careers on screen. At the same time, and given equal coverage, are forgotten acts: legendary female impersonators Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan, the vulgar Eva Tanguay with her billing as “The I Don't Care Girl,” male impersonator Kitty Doner, and a host of “freak” acts.
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Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book San Francisco Daily Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 996 pages
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Download or read book The Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Armond Fields
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women Vaudeville Stars written by Armond Fields and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells the stories of 80 women who were among the top vaudeville acts in the late 19th and early 20th century. The author summarizes the history of women in the performance industry and traces the lifespan of vaudeville. Biographies of the performers appear in order of the date they entered vaudeville"--Provided by publisher.
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Total Pages : 520 pages
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Author : Rick DesRochers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441132325
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy written by Rick DesRochers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century. By tracing the history and legacy of the vaudeville era and performance acts, like the Marx Brothers and The Three Keatons, and moving through the silent and early sound films of the early 1930s, the author looks at how comic writer/performers continue to sell a brand of themselves as a form of social commentary in order to confront and dispel stereotypes of race, class, and gender. The first study to explore contemporary popular comic culture and its influence on American society from this unique perspective, Rick DesRochers analyzes stand-up and improvisational comedy writing/performing in the work of Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave Chappelle. He grounds these choices by examining their evolution as they developed signature characters and sketches for their respective shows Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, The Colbert Report, and Chappelle's Show.
