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9780195052855

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195052855

  • ISBN10:

    0195052854

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1989-11-23
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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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

Introductionp. xiii
Preface to the 2000 Editionp. xvii
Taming the Bowery Boysp. 3
Vaudeville, Inc.p. 26
The Players and Their Worldp. 42
The Keith-Albee Octopus and the Return of the White Ratsp. 64
Big Time, Small Time, All Around the Townp. 82
Unforced and Happy Communionp. 104
Respectable Thrillsp. 130
Conclusionp. 155
Bibliographic Essayp. 163
Notesp. 167
Indexp. 215
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