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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: New York : Knopf
Language: en
Pages: 286
Pages: 286
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-28 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudeville was also Am
Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
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Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular ente
