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Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925 (Hardcover)
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Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925 (Hardcover)
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Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians,
blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats.
But vaudeville was also America's most popular commercial amusement
from the mid-1890s to the First World War; at its peak, 5 million
Americans attended vaudeville shows every week. Telling the story
of this pioneering art form's rise and decline, David Monod looks
through the apparent carnival of vaudeville performance and asks:
what made the theater so popular and transformative? Although he
acknowledges its quirkiness, Monod makes the case that vaudeville
became so popular because it offered audiences a guide to a modern
urban lifestyle. Vaudeville acts celebrated sharp city styles and
denigrated old-fashioned habits, showcased new music and dance
moves, and promulgated a deeply influential vernacular modernism.
The variety show's off-the-rack trendiness perfectly suited an era
when goods and services were becoming more affordable and the mass
market promised to democratize style, offering a clear vision of
how the quintessential twentieth-century citizen should look, talk,
move, feel, and act.
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