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Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925
Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate...
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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.
Author: David Monod
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/12/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9781469660554
About the Author
Monod, David: - David Monod is professor of American social and cultural history at Wilfrid Laurier University.
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.
Author: David Monod
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/12/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9781469660554
About the Author
Monod, David: - David Monod is professor of American social and cultural history at Wilfrid Laurier University.
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