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Subjects
Vaudeville, History, Musical theater, Social surveys, Gender identity in music, Sex in musicPlaces
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Champagne Charlie and pretty Jemima: variety theater in the nineteenth century
2010, University of Illinois Press
in English
0252035399 9780252035395
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Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima: Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century
2010, University of Illinois Press
in English
0252098056 9780252098055
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The first decade. The singing saloonkeeper
Girls! girls! girls! the entrepreneurial manager
Performers take charge
Novelty acts in concert saloons: equestrians, trapeze artists, and acrobats
Tripping the light fantastic: dancers
Entertainment comes to the fore. Legal intervention: the anti-concert saloon bill and its aftermath
Variety in times of national conflict and economic turmoil
Just to please the boys: seriocomic singers
Dutch, Irish, minstrels, and other characters: male comic singers
Just ordinary workingmen: seriocomic songs for men
Champagne Charlie: the fantasy of leisure for the workingman
Sustaining business in difficult times. What's in a name? Vaudeville vs. variety in New York and in regional theater
Sex rears its ugly head
again: female minstrelsy
Moral reform in regional variety: the fight to preserve community standards
Frontier revelry vs. respectable variety: industry, audiences, and sustainable leisure in economically difficult times
Conclusion: entertainment as industry.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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