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245 00 $aFrom traveling show to vaudeville :$btheatrical spectacle in America, 1830-1910 /$cedited by Robert M. Lewis.
260 $aBaltimore, Md. :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2003.
263 $a0312
300 $axii, 384 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: From Celebration to Show Business --$tThe Dime Museum --$tEarly Museum Shows --$tSelling and Seeing Curiosities --$tCommentary --$tDog Days of the Museum --$tMinstrelsy --$tRoutines: Songs, Speeches, Dialogue, and Farce --$tCommentary: Rise and Fall of "Slave" Creativity --$tReminiscences --$tMusical Comedy: Harrigan's Mulligan Guard --$tConfessions of an African American Minstrel --$tThe Circus --$tThe Circus Debated --$tThe Early Circus --$tBig Business --$tThe Audience --$tMelodrama --$tA Plea for an American Drama --$tClassic Melodrama --$tClassic Melodrama's Audiences --$tThe Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodramas --$t"Leg Show" Burlesque Extravaganzas --$tThe Black Crook --$tA Burlesque of Burlesque --$tReactions to the Controversy --$tThe Popular-Price Circuit --$tThe Wild West Show --$tOrigins --$tExtracts from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Programs --$tExhibiting Indians --$tSummer Amusement Parks --$tJournalists and the "New" Coney --$tShowmen and the "Amusement Business" --$tPopular Responses --$tTwo Critics of Coney's Banality --$tVaudeville --$tVaudeville Defined --$tThe Business --$tRoutines.
520 1 $a"In From Traveling Show to Vaudeville, Robert M. Lewis has assembled a remarkable collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century primary sources that document America's age of theatrical spectacle. In eight parts, Lewis explores, in turn, dime museums, minstrelsy, circuses, melodramas, burlesque shows, Wild West shows, amusement parks, and vaudeville." "Included in this compendium are biographies, programs, ephemera produced by theatrical entrepreneurs to lure audiences to their shows, photographs, scripts, and song lyrics as well as newspaper accounts, reviews, and interviews with such figures as P. T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill Cody. Lewis also gives us reminiscences about and reactions to various shows by members of audiences, including such prominent writers as Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, O. Henry, and Maxim Gorky. Each section also includes a concise introduction that places the genre of spectacle into its historical and cultural context and suggests major interpretive themes. The book closes with a bibliographic essay that identifies relevant scholarly works." "Many of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making the book an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPerforming arts$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPerforming arts$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
700 1 $aLewis, Robert M.,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002042768
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