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University of North Carolina Press Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925

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About the Author David Monod is professor of American social and cultural history at Wilfrid Laurier University. Product Description 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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Brand: University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1469660547
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 October 2020
Listed Since: 28 March 2020

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