Vaudeville melodies : popular musicians and mass entertainment in American culture, 1870-1929 /

Vaudeville melodies : popular musicians and mass entertainment in American culture, 1870-1929 /

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Author / Creator:	Gebhardt, Nicholas, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xii, 179 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Vaudeville -- United States. Revues -- United States. Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- United States. Popular music -- United States. Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) Popular music. Revues. Vaudeville. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11024650

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ISBN:	9780226448558 022644855X 9780226448695 022644869X 9780226448725
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying the groundwork for the music industry we know today. Nicholas Gebhardt introduces us to the performers, managers, and audiences who turned disjointed variety show acts into a phenomenally successful business. First introduced in the late nineteenth century, by 1915 vaudeville was being performed across the globe, incorporating thousands of performers from every branch of show business. Its astronomical success relied on a huge network of theatres, each part of a circuit and administered from centralized booking offices. Gebhardt shows us how vaudeville transformed relationships among performers, managers, and audiences, and argues that these changes affected popular music culture in ways we are still seeing today. Drawing on firsthand accounts, Gebhardt explores the practices by which vaudeville performers came to understand what it meant to entertain an audience, the conditions in which they worked, the institutions they relied upon, and the values they imagined were essential to their success.

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Call Number:	PN1968.U5 G43 2017
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