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American popular entertainment : papers and proceedings of the Conference on the History of American Popular Entertainment
Title
American popular entertainment : papers and proceedings of the Conference on the History of American Popular Entertainment / edited by Myron Matlaw ; sponsored jointly by American Society for Theatre Research and Theatre Library Association.
ISBN
0313210721 :
Published
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1979.
Physical Description
xiv, 338 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Bibliography: p. [301]-324.
Contents
The "Theatre Western" of Marseilles or the French metamorphosis of an American popular myth / Denis Gontard
Popular entertainments : summing up / Ray B. Browne
American popular entertainment : a historical perspective bibliography / Don B. Wilmeth.
Partial contents
Preface / Myron Matlaw
Notes from an old girl watcher / Monroe Lippman
Vaudeville : entertainment of the masses / Bill Smith
Show biz in blackface : the evolution of the minstrel show as a theatrical form / Robert C. Toll
Ethnic comedy in vaudeville and burlesque / Paul Antonie Distler
At my mother's knee (and other low joints) / Ralph G. Allen
Modern burlesque : discussions and skits / Morton Minksy ... [et al.]
Blacks in vaudeville : Broadway and beyond / Helen Armstead-Johnson
"A little letter to Mamma" : traditions in Yiddish vaudeville / Nahma Sandrow
George L. Fox and Bowery pantomime / Laurence Senelick
The vocal and theatrical music of Bert Williams and his associates / Max Morath
Dr. Kronkhite revisited / Joe Smith.
Trouping through Texas : Harley Sadler and his own show / Clifford Ashby
Tent rep : Broadway's poor relation / William L. Slout
Trouping with the Schaffners / Caroline Schaffner
Circus and side shows / Marcello Truzzi
The evolution of the circus in nineteenth-century America / Richard W. Flint
The origin of the circus parade wagon / George Speaight
The Wild West exhibition : a fraudulent reality / William Brasmer
Recollections of medicine show life / Mae Noell
Tripping on the light fantastic toe : popular dance of early Portland, Oregon, 1800-1864 / Jenifer P. Winsted
Gabriel Ravel and the Martinetti family : the popularity of pantomime in 1855 / Gretchen A. Schneider
Ruth St. Denis : dance popularizer with "high art" pretensions / Suzanne Shelton
Disneyland and the "Los Angelization" of the arts / James H. Bierman.
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