American Vaudeville as Seen by Its Contemporaries
| Author | : Charles W. Stein |
| Publisher | : CNIB |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Manuscripts, English |
| ISBN | : 9780306802560 |
Recalls the history and colorful personalities of vaudeville
American Vaudeville As Seen By Its Contemporaries
Download American Vaudeville As Seen By Its Contemporaries full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free American Vaudeville As Seen By Its Contemporaries ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
American Vaudeville as Seen by Its Contemporaries
| Author | : Charles W. Stein |
| Publisher | : New York : Knopf |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : |
The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy
| Author | : Rick DesRochers |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2014-07-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1441160876 |
The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century. By tracing the history and legacy of the vaudeville era and performance acts, like the Marx Brothers and The Three Keatons, and moving through the silent and early sound films of the early 1930s, the author looks at how comic writer/performers continue to sell a brand of themselves as a form of social commentary in order to confront and dispel stereotypes of race, class, and gender. The first study to explore contemporary popular comic culture and its influence on American society from this unique perspective, Rick DesRochers analyzes stand-up and improvisational comedy writing/performing in the work of Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Dave Chappelle. He grounds these choices by examining their evolution as they developed signature characters and sketches for their respective shows Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, The Colbert Report, and Chappelle's Show.
Vaudeville on the Diamond
| Author | : David M. Sutera |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2014-01-09 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0810891786 |
Over the last couple of decades, minor league baseball games have shown substantial attendance figures, with more than forty-one million spectators in both 2010 and 2011. With all the high-tech, live-streaming, fast-paced entertainment available to consumers, what is it about minor league baseball that still holds appeal with today’s audiences? With access to major league games broadcast on countless cable networks, what draws fans to small stadiums to watch obscure players struggle to make the big time? Sports historian David M. Sutera set out to answer these questions by visiting fourteen minor league baseball parks around the country. In Vaudeville on the Diamond, Sutera discusses the lure of minor league baseball with fans, players, and team representatives, examining how teams have survived and thrived in today’s competitive entertainment world. Combining interviews with game-day observations, Sutera argues that minor league baseball’s key to survival lies in the creation of on- and off-field attractions that invoke the traditions of vaudeville with their unique and quirky spectacle. From inviting fans to participate in dizzy bat competitions and races against the mascot to featuring Star Wars theme nights and monkeys riding border collies, teams have created a multifaceted form of entertainment that transcends the game itself. Part study and part travelogue, Vaudeville on the Diamond features numerous photographs of on-field entertainment, showcasing the vaudevillian side of minor league baseball. A light-hearted and engaging look at the minor leagues, this book will appeal not only to scholars and students of popular culture, sports and leisure studies, and sports management but to all fans of baseball and minor league sports.
Four Parts, No Waiting
| Author | : Gage Averill |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2003-02-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0195116720 |
Investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. It critiques the myths that have surrounded the barbershop revival, but also celebrates the participatory spirit of the harmony.
Music in the Chautauqua Movement
| Author | : Paige Lush |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2013-08-08 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0786473150 |
The chautauqua movement was a truly American phenomenon, providing education and entertainment for millions of people and employing thousands of musicians in the process. While scholars have previously explored various facets of the chautauqua movement, this is the first book to trace the place of music in the movement from its inception through its decline. Drawing upon the rich collections of ephemera left by several chautauqua bureaus, this study profiles several famous musicians and introduces the reader to lesser-known musical acts that traveled the chautauqua circuits. In addition, it explores music's role in defining the chautauqua movement as "high culture," legitimizing the movement in the eyes of community leaders and setting it apart from vaudeville and other competing amusements. Finally, it addresses music's role in establishing chautauqua's identity as an American institution, specifically in the years surrounding World War I.
Translating America
| Author | : Peter Conolly-Smith |
| Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2015-09-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1588345203 |
At the turn of the century, New York City's Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet fifty years later, traces of its culture had all but disappeared. What happened? The conventional interpretation has been that, in the face of persecution and repression during World War I, German immigrants quickly gave up their own culture and assimilated into American mainstream life. But in Translating America, Peter Conolly-Smith offers a radically different analysis. He argues that German immigrants became German-Americans not out of fear, but instead through their participation in the emerging forms of pop culture. Drawing from German and English newspapers, editorials, comic strips, silent movies, and popular plays, he reveals that German culture did not disappear overnight, but instead merged with new forms of American popular culture before the outbreak of the war. Vaudeville theaters, D.W. Griffith movies, John Philip Sousa tunes, and even baseball games all contributed to German immigrants' willing transformation into Americans. Translating America tackles one of the thorniest questions in American history: How do immigrants assimilate into, and transform, American culture?
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
| Author | : Don B. Wilmeth |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 626 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521651790 |
The second volume of the authoritative, multi-volume Cambridge History of American Theatre, first published in 1999, begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theatre up to 1945. It covers all aspects of theatre from plays and playwrights, through actors and acting, to theatre groups and directors. Topics examined include vaudeville and popular entertainment, European influences, theatre in and beyond New York, the rise of the Little Theatre movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theatre movement, scenography, stagecraft, and architecture. Contextualising chapters explore the role of theatre within the context of American social and cultural history, and the role of American theatre in relation to theatre in Europe and beyond. This definitive history of American theatre includes contributions from the following distinguished academics - Thomas Postlewait, John Frick, Tice L. Miller, Ronald Wainscott, Brenda Murphy, Mark Fearnow, Brooks McNamara, Thomas Riis, Daniel J. Watermeier, Mary C. Henderson, and Warren Kliewer.
The American Stage
| Author | : Ron Engle |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1993-05-06 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521412384 |
This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its history. Alone or as a collection, these essays, written by leading theatre historians and critics of the American theatre, will stimulate discussions concerning the traditionally held views of America's theatrical heritage.
Music in German Immigrant Theater
| Author | : John Koegel |
| Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
| Total Pages | : 626 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1580462154 |
A history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information.
