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9781566632980

The Voice of the City Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York

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  • ISBN13:

    9781566632980

  • ISBN10:

    1566632986

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-02-15
  • Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

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Summary

This entertaining and enlightening book depicts the rise of popular culture in America by brilliantly recapturing the essence and commercial trappings of one of its most vital forms of entertainment--the vaudeville show. A fascinating and highly readable social history...Snyder brilliantly illuminates the way city culture was made and worked in the lives of people at the turn of the century. --Thomas Bender. With a new preface by the author

Author Biography

Robert W. Snyder is an associate of the Media Studies Center in New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii
Preface to the 2000 Edition xvii
Taming the Bowery Boys
3(23)
Vaudeville, Inc.
26(16)
The Players and Their World
42(22)
The Keith-Albee Octopus and the Return of the White Rats
64(18)
Big Time, Small Time, All Around the Town
82(22)
Unforced and Happy Communion
104(26)
Respectable Thrills
130(25)
Conclusion 155(8)
Bibliographic Essay 163(4)
Notes 167(48)
Index 215

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