The Vaudevillians
Author | : Bill Smith |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
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Author | : Bill Smith |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
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Author | : Anthony Slide |
Publisher | : Westport, Conn. : Arlington House |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
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Author | : Charles Guarinus |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 80 |
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ISBN | : 0578049848 |
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Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Books |
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Author | : Michael J. Haupert |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2012-08-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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This book serves as a one-stop source for comprehensive information on the entertainment industry, providing a historical overview of the economics of the field, a series of short biographies of the impact makers, and an extensive annotated bibliography of more sources for in-depth research. Entertainment Industry: A Reference Handbook casts the spotlight on the evolution of the entertainment industry over the entire span of the 20th century, covering everything from vaudeville to radio and from sports to television and movies. It explores how the entertainment industry stands apart from other high-dollar, big-business enterprises with regard to how its economy is sustained, and it serves as a handy source for more in-depth information that general readers will find fascinating. An extensive annotated bibliography guides reader through their research, while a historical overview of the economics of the industry, a series of short biographies of the impact makers in the industry, and sources of more current information makes this work essential reading for anyone seeking comprehensive and specific information about the entertainment industry.
Author | : Frank Cullen |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 1362 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Entertainers |
ISBN | : 0415938538 |
Author | : Anthony Slide |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 649 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1617032506 |
The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who worked behind the scenes, the theatres, genres, and historical terms. Entries on individual vaudevillians include biographical information, samplings of routines and, often, commentary by the performers. Many former vaudevillians were interviewed for the book, including Milton Berle, Block and Sully, Kitty Doner, Fifi D'Orsay, Nick Lucas, Ken Murray, Fayard Nicholas, Olga Petrova, Rose Marie, Arthur Tracy, and Rudy Vallee. Where appropriate, entries also include bibliographies. The volume concludes with a guide to vaudeville resources and a general bibliography. Aside from its reference value, with its more than five hundred entries, The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville discusses the careers of the famous and the forgotten. Many of the vaudevillians here, including Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jimmy Durante, W. C. Fields, Bert Lahr, and Mae West, are familiar names today, thanks to their continuing careers on screen. At the same time, and given equal coverage, are forgotten acts: legendary female impersonators Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan, the vulgar Eva Tanguay with her billing as “The I Don't Care Girl,” male impersonator Kitty Doner, and a host of “freak” acts.
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Total Pages | : 862 |
Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Gage Averill |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2003-02-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190283475 |
Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony in the 1830s, Averill traces the popularity of this musical form in minstrel shows, black recreational singing, vaudeville, early recordings, and in the barbershop revival of the 1930s. In his exploration of barbershop, Averill uncovers a rich musical tradition--a hybrid of black and white cultural forms, practiced by amateurs, and part of a mythologized vision of small-town American life. Barbershop harmony played a central -- and overlooked -- role in the panorama of American music. Averill demonstrates that the barbershop revival was part of a depression-era neo-Victorian revival, spurred on by insecurities of economic and social change. Contemporary barbershop singing turns this nostalgic vision into lived experience. Arguing that the "old songs" function as repositories of idealized social memory, Averill reveals ideologies of gender, race, and class. This engagingly-written, often funny book critiques the nostalgic myths (especially racial myths) that have surrounded the barbershop revival, but also celebrates the civic-minded, participatory spirit of barbershop harmony. The contents of the CD have been replaced by a companion website with helpful links, resources, and audio examples.
Author | : Kathleen Menzie Lesko |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2017-04-24 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476627495 |
International vaudeville star and Broadway prima ballerina Jeanne Devereaux performed for millions across America and Europe from age eleven until her retirement at forty. A headliner at Radio City Music Hall, she led a large group of performers on one of the first USO Camp Shows tours to Japan. Born Jean Helman, she entered showbiz as a dancing trouper performing in palatial theaters and was one of the last vaudevillians surviving into the 2010s. In her later years living in Pasadena, California, Devereaux indulged her passion for research and writing in the Huntington Library’s Rothenberg Reading Room, losing none of her intelligence and wit despite a fading memory. Drawing on personal interviews, theatrical programs, and her diary and letters, this biography illuminates the life and career of one of vaudeville’s stars of stage, film, and television.