| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 146 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
In place
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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In place (Morgantown, W. Va.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Creation myths -- Vanishing act -- Just what was vaudeville? -- At the wonderland -- Dreamsweat -- Jacks-in-the-pew -- Bright particular star -- The Jonah Man -- The muting of the strings -- Obituaries and obsolescencies -- The playhouse -- History. |
| Summary |
"At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere-then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country using lists, creation myths, thumbnail biographies, dreams, and obituaries. A lyric history-part social history, part song-American Vaudeville sits at the nexus between poetry, experimental nonfiction, and, because it includes historic images, art books"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hilsabeck, Geoffrey.
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Hilsabeck, Geoffrey. |
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Vaudeville -- United States -- Miscellanea.
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Vaudeville. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Sante, Lucy, writer of foreword.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781952271069 1952271061 (DLC) 2020051361 (OCoLC)1191635113 |
| ISBN |
9781952271076 (electronic book) |
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195227107X |
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9781952271069 |
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1952271061 |
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