From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert M. Lewis (Editor)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2007-10-01Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Johns Hopkins University PressISBN-13:9780801887482ISBN-10:801887488UPC:9780801887482Book Category:History, Performing Arts, TravelBook Subcategory:United States, TheaterBook Topic:19th Century, History & CriticismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.82 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCJ0HS9SBX
From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910
Before phonographs and moving pictures, live performances dominated American popular entertainment. Carnivals, circuses, dioramas, magicians, mechanical marvels, musicians, and theatrical troupes--all visited rural fairgrounds, small-town opera houses, and big-city palaces around the country, giving millions of people an escape from their everyday lives for a dime or a quarter. In From Traveling...
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Johns Hopkins University PressISBN-13:9780801887482ISBN-10:801887488UPC:9780801887482Book Category:History, Performing Arts, TravelBook Subcategory:United States, TheaterBook Topic:19th Century, History & CriticismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.82 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCJ0HS9SBX
Robert M. Lewis is a lecturer in American history at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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