American Vaudeville - Geoffrey Hilsabeck
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Saadetis 10-16 tööpäeva jooksul
30-päevane tagastamisõigus
A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture--and with old, weird America. At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere--then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country using lists, c ... Täielik kirjeldus
Võib-olla meeldib sulle ka
TOP
Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Meie tarnija laos
TOP
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Laos
TOP
A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown with Soundgarden and Beyond
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Meie tarnija laos
TOP
Mike Joyce - The Drums: A Times Book of the Year 2025
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Lõppenud
TOP
Little Book of Cartier: The story of the iconic jewellery brand
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Meie tarnija laos
TOP
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Meie tarnija laos
TOP
Encyclopaedia Eorzea ~The World of Final Fantasy XIV~ Volume I
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Meie tarnija laos
TOP
Encyclopaedia Eorzea ~The World of Final Fantasy XIV~ Volume II
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Meie tarnija laos
TOP
Silver Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe und die Kamera: Photographien 1945-1962
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Meie tarnija laos
TOP
Mega Builds: Ten Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Meie tarnija laos
TOP
If I Could Write Poetry: Selected Lyrics
-40% koodiga BOOKS
Meie tarnija laos
Kirjeldus
A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture--and with old, weird America. At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere--then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country using lists, creation myths, thumbnail biographies, dreams, and obituaries. A lyric history--part social history, part song--American Vaudeville sits at the nexus between poetry, experimental nonfiction, and, because it includes historic images, art books. Geoffrey Hilsabeck's book grows out of extensive archival research. Rather than arranging that research--the remains of vaudeville--into a realistic picture or tidy narrative, Hilsabeck dreams vaudeville back into existence, drawing on photographs, letters, joke books, reviews, newspaper stories, anecdotes, and other material gathered from numerous archives, as well as from memoirs by vaudeville performers like Buster Keaton, Eva Tanguay, and Eddie Cantor. Some of this research is presented as-is, a letter from a now forgotten vaudeville performer to her booking agent, for example; some is worked up into brief scenes and biographies; and some is put to even more imaginative uses, finding new life in dialogues and prose poems. American Vaudeville pulls the past into the present and finds in the beauty and carnivalesque grotesqueness of vaudeville a fitting image of American life today.
Lisateave
| Autor | Geoffrey Hilsabeck |
|---|---|
| Kirjastaja | West Virginia University Press |
| Väljalaskeaasta | 2021 |
| Kaanetüüp | Pehme kaanega |
| EAN | 9781952271069 |