{"product_id":"from-traveling-show-to-vaudeville-9780801870873","title":"From Traveling Show to Vaudeville","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of the pieces collected here have not been published since their first appearance, making From Traveling Show to Vaudeville an indispensable resource for historians of popular culture, theater, and nineteenth-century American society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLewis's book provides not only a wealth of information but also delightful reading. It should be part of every library as a starter point for classes on American nineteenth-century public culture. Amerikastudien \/ American Studies 2006 Belongs in the collection of anyone who claims to be serious about the study of American popular entertainments. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 2006 Includes a range of useful and previously inaccessible sources. Both researchers and teachers will find it a valuable reference. Australasian Journal of American Studies 2006 An impressive and judiciously selected collection of relevant documents... This compendium is notable for its broad coverage of forms, informative commentary, and superb bibliographic essay on sources. Choice 2004 An eminently useful book... It is an excellent reader for introducing students to cultural history, bringing it alive through primary sources. Cercles All-encompassing... it is likely to become a standard work, for media students as well as for American history enthusiasts. -- Stephen Bottomore Early Popular Visual Culture 2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Introduction: From Celebration to Show BusinessTHE DIME MUSEUM  Early Museum Shows  Selling and Seeing Curiosities  Commentary  Dog Days of the Museum  MINSTRELSY  Routines: Songs, Speeches, Dialogue, and Farce  Commentary: Rise and Fall of \"Slave\" Creativity  Reminiscences  Musical Comedy: Harrigan's Mulligan Guard  Confessions of an African American Minstrel  THE CIRCUS  The Circus Debated  The Early Circus  Big Business  The Audience  MELODRAMA  A Plea for an American Drama  Classic Melodrama  Classic Melodrama's Audiences  The Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodramas\"LEG SHOW\"   BURLESQUE EXTRAVAGANZAS  The Black Crook  A Burlesque of Burlesque  Reactions to the Controversy  The Popular-Price CircuitTHE WILD WEST SHOW  Origins  Extracts from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Programs  Exhibiting Indians  SUMMER AMUSEMENT PARKS  Journalists and the \"New\" Coney  Showmen and the \"Amusement Business\"  Popular Responses  Two Critics of Coney's BanalityVAUDEVILLE  Vaudeville Defined  The Business  Routines","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527616799063,"sku":"9780801870873","price":45.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801870873.jpg?v=1731868560","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-traveling-show-to-vaudeville-9780801870873","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}