American popular entertainment : papers and proceedings of the Conference on the History of American Popular Entertainment /
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| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
1979
Westport, Conn. : 1979 Westport, Conn. : 1979 |
| Series: | Contributions in drama and theatre studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- The "Theatre Western" of Marseilles or the French metamorphosis of an American popular myth / Denis Gontard
- Popular entertainments : summing up / Ray B. Browne
- American popular entertainment : a historical perspective bibliography / Don B. Wilmeth
- Preface / Myron Matlaw
- Notes from an old girl watcher / Monroe Lippman
- Vaudeville : entertainment of the masses / Bill Smith
- Show biz in blackface : the evolution of the minstrel show as a theatrical form / Robert C. Toll
- Ethnic comedy in vaudeville and burlesque / Paul Antonie Distler
- At my mother's knee (and other low joints) / Ralph G. Allen
- Modern burlesque : discussions and skits / Morton Minksy ... [et al.]
- Blacks in vaudeville : Broadway and beyond / Helen Armstead-Johnson
- "A little letter to Mamma" : traditions in Yiddish vaudeville / Nahma Sandrow
- George L. Fox and Bowery pantomime / Laurence Senelick
- The vocal and theatrical music of Bert Williams and his associates / Max Morath
- Dr. Kronkhite revisited / Joe Smith
- Preface / Myron Matlaw
- Notes from an old girl watcher / Monroe Lippman
- Vaudeville : entertainment of the masses / Bill Smith
- Show biz in blackface : the evolution of the minstrel show as a theatrical form / Robert C. Toll
- Ethnic comedy in vaudeville and burlesque / Paul Antonie Distler
- At my mother's knee (and other low joints) / Ralph G. Allen
- Modern burlesque : discussions and skits / Morton Minksy [and others]
- Blacks in vaudeville : Broadway and beyond / Helen Armstead-Johnson
- "A little letter to Mamma" : traditions in Yiddish vaudeville / Nahma Sandrow
- George L. Fox and Bowery pantomime / Laurence Senelick
- The vocal and theatrical music of Bert Williams and his associates / Max Morath
- Dr. Kronkhite revisited / Joe Smith
- Trouping through Texas : Harley Sadler and his own show / Clifford Ashby
- Tent rep : Broadway's poor relation / William L. Slout
- Trouping with the Schaffners / Caroline Schaffner
- Circus and side shows / Marcello Truzzi
- The evolution of the circus in nineteenth-century America / Richard W. Flint
- The origin of the circus parade wagon / George Speaight
- The Wild West exhibition : a fraudulent reality / William Brasmer
- Recollections of medicine show life / Mae Noell
- Tripping on the light fantastic toe : popular dance of early Portland, Oregon, 1800-1864 / Jenifer P. Winsted
- Gabriel Ravel and the Martinetti family : the popularity of pantomime in 1855 / Gretchen A. Schneider
- Ruth St. Denis : dance popularizer with "high art" pretensions / Suzanne Shelton
- Disneyland and the "Los Angelization" of the arts / James H. Bierman