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Vaudeville Melodies - Nicholas Gebhardt

Vaudeville Melodies

Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929
Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2017
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-44869-5 (ISBN)
CHF 41,85 inkl. MwSt
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 entertainment in the United States, laying the groundwork for the music industry we know today. In Vaudeville Melodies, Nicholas Gebhardt introduces us to the performers, managers, and audiences who turned disjointed variety show acts into a phenomenally successful business. First introduced in the late nineteenth century, by 1915 vaudeville was being performed across the globe, incorporating thousands of performers from every branch of show business. Its astronomical success relied on a huge network of theatres, each part of a circuit and administered from centralized booking offices. Gebhardt shows us how vaudeville transformed relationships among performers, managers, and audiences, and argues that these changes affected popular music culture in ways we are still seeing today.
Drawing on firsthand accounts, Gebhardt explores the practices by which vaudeville performers came to understand what it meant to entertain an audience, the conditions in which they worked, the institutions they relied upon, and the values they imagined were essential to their success.

Nicholas Gebhardt is professor of jazz and popular music studies at Birmingham City University, UK. He is the author of The Cultural Politics of Jazz Collectives and Going For Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 16 x 23 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sonstiges Geschenkbücher
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-226-44869-X / 022644869X
ISBN-13 978-0-226-44869-5 / 9780226448695
Zustand Neuware
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