Champagne Charlie and Pretty Jemima Variety Theater in the Nineteenth Century |
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| Author:
| Rodger, Gillian M. |
| Series title: | Music in American Life Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-07734-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio and television. Fresh, bawdy, and unabashedly ......
In this rich, imaginative survey of variety musical theater, Gillian M. Rodger masterfully chronicles the social history and class dynamics of the robust, nineteenth-century American theatrical phenomenon that gave way to twentieth-century entertainment forms such as vaudeville and comedy on radio and television. Fresh, bawdy, and unabashedly ......