Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show

Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and...
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Author: Ann Anderson
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Language: English
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Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show by Anderson, Ann

Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show

$129.20

Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show

$129.20
Author: Ann Anderson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American medicine show sold tonics, ointments, pills, extracts and a host of other "wonder-cures," guaranteed to "cure what ails you." While the cures were seldom miraculous, the medicine show was an important part of American culture and of performance history. Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, and P.T. Barnum all took a turn upon the medicine show stage.

This study of the medicine show phenomenon surveys nineteenth century popular entertainment and provides insight into the ways in which show business, advertising, and medicine manufacture developed in concert. The colorful world of the medicine show, with its Wild West shows, pie-eating contests, clowns, and menageries, is fully explored. Photographs of performers and of the fascinating handbills and posters used to promote the medicine show are included.



Author: Ann Anderson
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 12/24/2004
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.96h x 7.02w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780786422289
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Ann Anderson is a freelance writer, teacher, actor and director. Her articles and essays have appeared in Stage Directions, Prevention and Health, among many other publications. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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