TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Robert M.
TI  - From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910
SN  - 9780801899942
AV  - PN2245 .F76 2007 
U1  - 791.097309034 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Performing arts-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Performing arts-United States-History-20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: From Celebration to Show Business -- THE DIME MUSEUM -- Early Museum Shows -- Selling and Seeing Curiosities -- Commentary -- Dog Days of the Museum -- MINSTRELSY -- Routines: Songs, Speeches, Dialogue, and Farce -- Commentary: Rise and Fall of ''Slave'' Creativity -- Reminiscences -- Musical Comedy: Harrigan's Mulligan Guard -- Confessions of an African American Minstrel -- THE CIRCUS -- The Circus Debated -- The Early Circus -- Big Business -- The Audience -- MELODRAMA -- A Plea for an American Drama -- Classic Melodrama -- Classic Melodrama's Audiences -- The Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodramas -- ''LEG SHOW'' BURLESQUE EXTRAVAGANZAS -- The Black Crook -- A Burlesque of Burlesque -- Reactions to the Controversy -- The Popular-Price Circuit -- THE WILD WEST SHOW -- Origins -- Extracts from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Programs -- Exhibiting Indians -- SUMMER AMUSEMENT PARKS -- Journalists and the ''New'' Coney -- Showmen and the ''Amusement Business'' -- Popular Responses -- Two Critics of Coney's Banality -- VAUDEVILLE -- Vaudeville Defined -- The Business -- Routines -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
N2  - Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society
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